Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
I will take to witness to me faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Holman Bible
I have appointed
International Standard Version
Then I will call Uriah the priest and Jeberechiah's son Zechariah as reliable witnesses to testify on my behalf."
A Conservative Version
And I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
American Standard Version
and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Amplified
And I will get faithful witnesses to attest [to this prophecy] for me, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.”
Bible in Basic English
And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
Darby Translation
And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
King James 2000
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And I will require reliable witnesses as a witness for me: Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."
Modern King James verseion
And I took to myself faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And immediately I called unto me faithful witnesses: Uriah the priest, and Zachariah the son of Barachiah.
NET Bible
Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah."
New Heart English Bible
and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
The Emphasized Bible
That I may take in attestation, faithful witnesses, - even Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
Webster
And I took to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
World English Bible
and I will take for myself faithful witnesses to testify: Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah."
Youngs Literal Translation
And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
Themes
Jeberechiah » Father of zechariah
Maher-shalal-hash-baz » A symbolical name
Marriage » Ceremony attested by witnesses
Uriah (urias) » A priest » Witness to one of isaiah's prophecies
Urijah » A priest in ahaz » Probably identical with uriah, witness to a prophecy of isaiah
Interlinear
`uwd
'aman
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 8:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Signs Of The Assyrian Invasion
1 And Jehovah will say to me, Take to thee a great tablet, and write upon it with a man's graving tool to hasten the spoil, urging on the plunder. 2 I will take to witness to me faithful witnesses, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah. 3 And I shall draw near to the prophetess; and she will conceive and bear a son, and Jehovah will say to me, Call his name, Hastening the spoil, urging on the plunder.
Cross References
2 Kings 16:10-11
And king Ahaz will go up to the meeting of Tiglath-Pileser king of As-sur to Damascus, and he will see an altar which was in Damascus: and king Ahaz will send to Urijah the priest a likeness of the altar and its structure, for all its work.
Ruth 4:2
And he will take ten men from the old men of the citv, and he will say, Sit ye down here. And they will sit down.
Ruth 4:10-11
And also Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I bought to me for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance; and the name of the dead shall not be cut off from his brethren and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.
2 Kings 16:15-16
And king Ahaz will command him, Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the burnt-offering of the morning, and the gift of the evening, and the king's burnt-offering and his gift, and the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their gifts and their libations, and all the blood of the burnt-offering and all the blood of the sacrifice: thou shalt sprinkle upon it and the altar of brass shall be to me for the morning.
2 Kings 18:2
The son of twenty and five years, was he in his reigning; and twenty and, nine years reigned he in Jerusalem 2Kings 18:and his mothers name Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.
2 Corinthians 13:1
This third I come to you. By mouth of two witnesses, and three, shall every word be established.