Isaiah 8:8 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 8:8

It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!

BSB

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ASV

and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

KJV

And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

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Commentary

3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

He shall reach even to the neck - He compares Jerusalem, says Kimchi, to the head of the human body. As when the waters come up to a man’s neck, he is very near drowning, (for a little increase of them would go over his head), so the king of Assyria coming up to Jerusalem was like a flood reaching to the neck - the whole country was overflowed, and the capital was in imminent danger. Accordingly the Chaldee renders reaching to the neck by reaching to Jerusalem.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

Such was the danger of Judah's land, when Sennacherib took all the fenced cities of Judah, 2 Kings xviii, 13, and sent his army against Jerusalem. Wings - Of his forces, or of the wings of his army, as they still are called. My land - Of the land of Judah, so called because the Messiah, who is called Immanuel, should be born there.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

And here is another comfortable intimation that though the stretching out of the wings of the Assyrian, that bird of prey, though the right and left wing of his army, should fill the breadth of the land of Judah, yet still it was Immanuel's land. It is thy land, O Immanuel! It was to be Christ's land; for there he was to be born, and live, and preach, and work miracles.

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Original language & word study

15 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְחָלַ֤ף	ve.cha.Laf	and it will pass on	H2498 →
בִּֽיהוּדָה֙	bi.hu.Dah	in Judah	H3063 →
שָׁטַ֣ף	sha.Taf	it will overflow	H7857 →
וְעָבַ֔ר	ve.'a.Var	and it will pass over	H5674 →
עַד־	'ad-	to	H5704 →
צַוָּ֖אר	tza.Var	[the] neck	H6677 →
יַגִּ֑יעַ	ya.Gi.a'	it will reach	H5060 →
וְהָיָה֙	ve.ha.Yah	and it will be	H1961 →
מֻטּ֣וֹת	mu.Tot	[the] spreading<s> of	H4298 →
כְּנָפָ֔יו	ke.na.Fav	wings its	H3671 →
מְלֹ֥א	me.Lo'	[the] fullness of	H4393 →
רֹֽחַב־	ro.chav-	[the] breadth of	H7341 →
אַרְצְךָ֖	'ar.tze.Kha	land your	H776 →
עִמָּ֥נוּ	'i.Ma.nu	O Immanu-	H6005 →
אֵֽל׃ ס	'El	-el	H6005 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 1:23
“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
leads to
- Isaiah 7:14
  Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
- Isaiah 9:6–7
  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…
- Psalms 46:11
  The LORD of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our fortress. Selah
Through
Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
leads to
- Matthew 1:23
  “Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
- Isaiah 9:6
  For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of…
- John 1:14
  The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Luke 1:31
  Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
- John 1:1–2