Isa 7:15-16 | JFB | e4.org | 15. Butter —rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East ( ). honey —abundant in Palestine ( ). Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be honey, the next milk [BARNABAS , Epistle ]. HORSLEY takes this as implying the real humanity of the Immanuel Jesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants ( ). shows that besides the fitness of milk and honey for children, a state of distress of the inhabitants is also implied, when, by reason of the invaders, milk and honey, things produced spontaneously, shall be the only abundant articles of food [MAURER ]. that he may know —rather, until He shall know. evil . . . choose . . . good —At about three years of age moral consciousness begins (compare ).

‏ Isaiah 7:15-16

15. Butter—rather, curdled milk, the acid of which is grateful in the heat of the East (Job 20:17).

honey—abundant in Palestine (Jud 14:8; 1Sa 14:25; Mt 3:4). Physicians directed that the first food given to a child should be honey, the next milk [BARNABAS, Epistle]. HORSLEY takes this as implying the real humanity of the Immanuel Jesus Christ, about to be fed as other infants (Lu 2:52). Isa 7:22 shows that besides the fitness of milk and honey for children, a state of distress of the inhabitants is also implied, when, by reason of the invaders, milk and honey, things produced spontaneously, shall be the only abundant articles of food [MAURER].

that he may know—rather, until He shall know.

evil . . . choose . . . good—At about three years of age moral consciousness begins (compare Isa 8:4; De 1:39; Jon 4:11).

16. For—The deliverance implied in the name "Immanuel," and the cessation of distress as to food (Isa 7:14, 15), shall last only till the child grows to know good and evil;

for . . . the land that . . . abhorrest . . . forsaken of . . . kings—rather, desolate shall be the land, before whose two kings thou art alarmed [HENGSTENBERG and GESENIUS].

the land—namely, Syria and Samaria regarded as one (2Ki 16:9; 15:30), just two years after this prophecy, as it foretells. HORSLEY takes it, "The land (Judah and Samaria) of (the former of) which thou art the plague (literally, 'thorn') shall be forsaken," &c.; a prediction thus, that Judah and Israel (appropriately regarded as one "land") should cease to be kingdoms (Lu 2:1; Ge 49:10) before Immanuel came.

Isa 7:17-25. FATAL CONSEQUENCES OF AHAZ' ASSYRIAN POLICY.

Though temporary deliverance (Isa 7:16; 8:4) was to be given then, and final deliverance through Messiah, sore punishment shall follow the former. After subduing Syria and Israel, the Assyrians shall encounter Egypt (2Ki 23:29), and Judah shall be the battlefield of both (Isa 7:18), and be made tributary to that very Assyria (2Ch 28:20; 2Ki 16:7, 8) now about to be called in as an ally (Isa 39:1-6). Egypt, too, should prove a fatal ally (Isa 36:6; 31:1, &c.).