Teks -- Isaiah 8:2 (NET)

8:2 Then I will summon as my reliable witnesses Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah.”

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JFB: Isa 8:2 - I took

Rather, "The Lord said to me, that I should take," &c. [MAURER].

JFB: Isa 8:2 - Uriah

An accomplice of Ahaz in idolatry, and therefore a witness not likely to assist the prophet of God in getting up a prophecy after the event (2Ki 16:10). The witnesses were in order that when the event should come, they might testify that the tablet containing the prophecy had been inscribed with it at the time that it professed.

JFB: Isa 8:2 - Zechariah

(2Ch 29:13).

Calvin: Isa 8:2 - And I took into me witnesses // Faithful witnesses // Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah

2.And I took into me witnesses The noun עדים , ( gnedim,) and the verb אעיד , ( agnid,) which the Prophet employs, are derived from the same root, and the allusion is elegant, as if we were to say, “I have called-to-witness witnesses.” ¹²¹ As this was a matter of great importance, he therefore took to himself witnesses, as is usually done on important occasions.

Faithful witnesses He calls them faithful, that is, true and worthy of credit; and yet one of them was an ungodly and worthless apostate, who, wishing to flatter his king, erected an altar resembling the altar at Damascus, and openly defended ungodliness and unlawful modes of worship. Some commentators, I am aware, are of opinion that it was a different person; but a careful examination of the circumstances will convince any one, that this was the same Urijah, of whom the sacred history declares that he was slavishly devoted to the ungodliness and lawless desires of the king. (2Kg 16:11.) As to those who think that it was a different person, because Isaiah here calls this man faithful, such an argument carries little weight; for the Prophet did not look at the man, but at the office which he held, and which rendered him a fit person for bearing testimony. Accordingly, he does not mean that he was a good and excellent man, but that his office gave him such influence that nobody could reject him, and that his testimony was, as they say, free from every objection.

Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah I think that this prophecy was affixed to the gates of the temple, Uriah and Zechariah having been taken to be witnesses; for he does not speak of a vision, but of a command of God, which he actually obeyed, in order that these words, like a common proverb, might be repeated by every person.

TSK: Isa 8:2 - I took // Uriah

I took : Rth 4:2, Rth 4:10,Rth 4:11; 2Co 13:1

Uriah : 2Ki 16:10,2Ki 16:11, 2Ki 18:2

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Poole: Isa 8:2

Persons of unquestionable reputation, who should bear witness that the following name and prophecy was written and published by me, according to God’ s command.

Gill: Isa 8:2 - And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record // Uriah the priest // and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah

And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record,.... Not his marriage, nor the birth of his son, nor the name he gave him, but the prophecy written in the roll, concerning the spoiling of Syria and Israel, in a very short time; that so, when it came to pass, it might be a clear and certain point that it had been foretold by him:

Uriah the priest; of whom mention is made in 2Ki 16:10 which some object to, because he proved a wicked man, and obeyed the king's command, contrary to the law of God, in building an altar according to the form of one at Damascus; but to this it is replied, that it was before this happened that Isaiah took him to be a witness; and besides, because of the authority of his office, and his familiarity with Ahaz, he must be allowed to be a proper and pertinent person to bear testimony in this case. Some indeed, and so the Jewish commentators, Jarchi, Aben Ezra, Kimchi, and Abarbinel, would have Uriah the prophet meant, who prophesied in the times of Jehoiakim, and was slain by him, Jer 26:20 to which it is objected, that he was no priest, as this was and, besides, was not born at this time; it was a hundred and forty years after that he lived:

and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah; this was Zechariah the prophet, as the Targum, and all the Jewish writers, say ^o; who lived in the times of Darius, which was two hundred and forty years after this; but most likely this Zechariah is he who was Ahaz's wife's father, 2Ki 18:2 or rather, as Vitringa thinks, Zechariah a Levite, a son of Asaph, 2Ch 29:13 though there are some learned men ^p, who think the two prophets Uriah and Zechariah are meant, though then unborn; who prophesied of the like or same things as Isaiah did; and so were faithful witnesses of his prophecy, as of the calamities that should come on the land, the restitution of it to its former fruitfulness, and the coming of the Messiah; nor is the observation of Abarbinel to be despised, taken from the ancient Jews, that these are the words, not of the prophet, but of God himself; as also that they are to be read in the future tense, "and I will take to me", &c.