isaiah 7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above. - Free Bible Online

isaiah 7:11 "Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make [it] deep as Sheol or high as heaven."


      11. Ask thee--since thou dost not credit the prophet's words.
      sign--a miraculous token to assure thee that God will fulfil His promise of saving Jerusalem (Isa 37:30; 38:7, 8). "Signs," facts then present or near at hand as pledges for the more distant future, are frequent in Isaiah.
      ask . . . in . . . depth--literally, "Make deep . . . ask it," that is, Go to the depth of the earth or of Hades [Vulgate and LOWTH], or, Mount high for it (literally, "Make high"). So in Mt 16:1. Signs in heaven are contrasted with the signs on earth and below it (raising the dead) which JesusChrist had wrought (compare Ro 10:6, 7). He offers Ahaz the widest limits within which to make his choice.

JFB.


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