Isaiah Chapter 8 verse 2 Holy Bible
and I will take unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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And take true witnesses to the writing, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, the son of Jeberechiah.
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And I took unto me to witness, sure witnesses, Urijah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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and I will take to me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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And I cause faithful witnesses to testify to me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And I took unto me; rather, and I will have taken for me. It is still God who is speaking. Uriah the priest. Probably the high priest of the time, mentioned in 2 Kings 16:10-16, as the ready tool of Ahaz at a later date. Though a bad man, he may have been a trustworthy witness to a fact. Zechariah. Perhaps the father of Abi or Abijah, Ahaz's queen (2 Kings 18:2; 2 Chronicles 29:1). It would serve to call public attention still more to the tablet, if it bore the names of two such eminent persons as witnesses.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) And I took unto me faithful witnesses.--That the prophet's challenge to his gainsayers might be made more emphatic, the setting-up of the tablet is to be formally attested. And the witnesses whom the prophet calls were probably men of high position, among those who had been foremost in advising the alliance with Assyria. Of Uriah or Urijah, the priest, we know that he complied with the king's desire to introduce an altar after the pattern which he had seen at Damascus (2Kings 16:10-11). Of Zechariah we know nothing; but the name was a priestly one (2Chronicles 24:20), and it has been conjectured, from his association with Isaiah, that he may have been the writer of a section of the book that bears the name of a later Zechariah (Zechariah 9-12), which bears traces of being of a much earlier date than the rest of the book. The combination of "Zachariah, son of Jeberechiah" reminds us of Zacharias, the son of Barachias, and points to a priestly family. (See Note on Matthew 23:35.) In 2Chronicles 29:13 the name appears as belonging to the Asaph section of the Levites. A more probable view is that he was identical with the father of the queen then reigning, and was therefore the grandfather of Hezekiah (2Chronicles 29:1). Probably, looking to the prophet's habit of tracing auguries in names, the two witnesses may have been partly chosen for the significance of those which they bore, Uriah, i.e., "Jah is my light," Zechariah, i.e., "Jah will remember," each of which comes in with a special appropriateness.
