Isaiah 7:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
16 For afore the [a]child shall have knowledge to eschew the evil, and to choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest, shall be forsaken of both her kings.
17 The Lord shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy Father’s house (the days that are not come from the day that [b]Ephraim departed from Judah) even the King of [c]Assyria.
18 And in that day shall the Lord hiss for the [d]fly that is at the uttermost parts of the floods of Egypt, and for the Bee which is in the land of Assyria,
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- Isaiah 7:16 Not meaning Christ, but any child: for before a child can come to the years of discretion, the kings of Samaria and Syria shall be destroyed.
- Isaiah 7:17 Since the time that the twelve Tribes rebelled under Rehoboam.
- Isaiah 7:17 In whom thou hast put thy trust.
- Isaiah 7:18 Meaning, the Egyptians: for by reason the country is hot and moist, it is full of flies, as Assyria is full of bees.
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