3And I went unto the prophetess; and she conceived, and bare a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Mahershalalhashbaz.
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So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim; which conceived, and bare him a son. …
And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
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? …
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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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…
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