Isaiah 8:7

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

The lord bringeth

Strong

Ezra 4:10

Psalm 72:8

The king

Isaiah 7:1

Isaiah 10:8

Ezekiel 31:3

He shall come

2 Kings 17:3

2 Kings 18:9

General references

Jeremiah 51:42

Bible References

The lord bringeth

"How terrible it will be for many nations, who rage like the roaring sea! Oh, how the uproar of nations is like the sound of rushing, mighty water How they roar!

And I will make justice the measuring line, and righteousness the plumb line; hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and floods will overflow your hiding place.

So people will fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glories from the rising of the sun; for he will come as a pent-up stream that the breath of the LORD drives along.

"For my part, I'm about to flood the earth with water and destroy every living thing that breathes. Everything on earth will die.

"The LORD will raise a distant nation against you from the other side of the earth. Swooping down like a vulture,

Who is this, rising like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge?

Then after the 62 weeks, the anointed one will be cut down (but not for himself). Then the people of the Coming Commander will destroy both the city and the Sanctuary. Its ending will come like a flood, and until the end there will be war, with desolations having been decreed.

His sons will prepare for war, assembling an army of considerable force. One of them will come on forcefully, overflowing, passing through, and waging war up to his own fortress.

Surely the land will tremble because of this, won't it? And all who live in it will mourn, won't they? The entire land will swell up like a flooded river. It will be stirred up and then will sink like the river of Egypt.

"The Lord GOD of the Heavenly Armies who is touching the earth so that it melts and all of its inhabitants mourn there the land rises like the Nile River, but sinks like the river of Egypt

But with an overwhelming deluge he will bring utter desolation to Nineveh, and his enemies he will pursue with darkness.

They are like a person building a house, who dug a deep hole to lay the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the floodwaters pushed against that house but couldn't shake it, because it had been founded on the rock.

From its mouth the serpent spewed water like a river behind the woman in order to sweep her away with the flood.

The angel also told me, "The bodies of water you saw, on which the prostitute is sitting, are nations, multitudes, nations, and languages.

Strong

Judges, envoys, officials, Persians, the people of Erech, the Babylonians, the people of Susa (that is, the Elamites) and many other nations whom the great and honorable Osnappar deported and resettled in Samaria and in the rest of the province beyond the Euphrates River.

May he rule from sea to sea, from the Euphrates River to the ends of the earth.

The king

During the reign of Jotham's son Ahaz, Uzziah's grandson, king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Remaliah's son Pekah, king of Israel, approached Jerusalem and waged war against it, but they could not mount an attack against it.

"Because this is what he is saying: "My commanders are all kings, are they not?

Think about Assyria, that cedar of Lebanon, beautiful with its branches, like a shady forest, with an awesome height, its summit touches the clouds.

He shall come

King Shalmaneser of Assyria attacked him, and Hoshea became his servant and paid tribute to him.

In the fourth year of King Hezekiah's reign (that is, during the seventh year of Elah's son Hoshea's reign as king of Israel), King Shalmaneser from Assyria invaded Samaria and besieged it.

General references

The sea will come up against Babylon, and she will be covered by wave upon wave.