Isaiah 8:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.

Isaiah 8:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hosea 1:3-9
So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. …
Judges 4:4
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
Isaiah 7:13-14
And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also? …
2 Kings 22:14
So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe;(now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.

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Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

In these verses we have a prophecy of the successes of the king of Assyria against Damascus, Samaria, and Judah, that the two former should be laid waste by him, and the last greatly frightened. Here we have, I. Orders given to the prophet to write this prophecy, and publish it to be seen and read of all men, and to leave it upon record, that when the thing came to pass they might know that God ha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. prophetess--perhaps the same as the “virgin” (Is 7:14), in the interim married as Isaiah’s second wife: this is in the primary and temporary sense. Immanuel is even in this sense distinct from Maher-shalal-hash-baz. Thus nineteen months at least intervene from the prophecy (Is 7:14), nine before the birth of Immanuel, and ten from that time to the birth of Maher-shalal-hash-baz: adding eleven o…