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A child and a warning. NARRATIVE | The prophetess bears a son, who is named Maher-shalal-hash-baz. His infancy sets the time frame for the warning about Damascus and Samaria.
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Isaiah 8:3-4

A child and a warning

Signs in a Darkening Land · Isaiah 8

Story guide: NARRATIVE | The prophetess bears a son, who is named Maher-shalal-hash-baz. His infancy sets the time frame for the warning about Damascus and Samaria.

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3So I went near to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then Yahweh said to me, “Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.”

4For before the boy knows how to cry, ‘My father’ and ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.

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