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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Maher-sha-lal-bash-baz
Isaiah's son, and the name was the message: "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil." Before the boy could say father or mother, Assyria would strip Damascus and Samaria. Isaiah had the name written on a large tablet, with two reliable men as witnesses, before the child was born.
Isaiah's son, and the name was the message: "quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil." Before the boy could say father or mother, Assyria would strip Damascus and Samaria. Isaiah had the name written on a large tablet, with two reliable men as witnesses, before the child was born.
Maher-shalal-hash-baz, meaning “quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil,” was the son of the prophet Isaiah, given this deliberately ominous name as a sign to King Ahaz that Assyria would plunder Damascus and Samaria before the child could say “father” or “mother” (Isaiah 8:1-4). Isaiah had the name publicly recorded on a large tablet before the boy's birth, witnessed by two reliable men, underscoring the prophecy's certainty. The prediction was fulfilled within a few years when Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria conquered Damascus and stripped Israel of territory.
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- Isaiah 8:1
- Isaiah 8:3
