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Isaiah 8

Isa. 8:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Bind up
tsarar (Hebrew #6887)
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows)
KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Pronounce: tsaw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
the testimony
t`uwdah (Hebrew #8584)
attestation, i.e. a precept, usage
KJV usage: testimony.
Pronounce: teh-oo-daw'
Origin: from 5749
, seal
chatham (Hebrew #2856)
to close up; especially to seal
KJV usage: make an end, mark, seal (up), stop.
Pronounce: khaw-tham'
Origin: a primitive root
w the law
towrah (Hebrew #8451)
from 3384; a precept or statute, especially the Decalogue or Pentateuch
KJV usage: law.
Pronounce: to-raw'
Origin: or torah {to-raw'}
amongx my disciples
limmuwd (Hebrew #3928)
from 3925; instructed
KJV usage: accustomed, disciple, learned, taught, used.
Pronounce: lim-mood'
Origin: or limmud {lim-mood'}
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Bind up.
the testimony.
Isa. 8:20• 20To the law and the testimony! If they speak not according to this word, for them there is no daybreak. (Isa. 8:20)
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Deut. 4:45• 45these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances that Moses declared to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt, (Deut. 4:45)
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2 Kings 11:12• 12And he brought forth the king's son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony; and they made him king, and anointed him; and they clapped their hands, and said, Long live the king! (2 Kings 11:12)
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John 3:32‑33• 32and what he has seen and has heard, this he testifies; and no one receives his testimony.
33He that has received his testimony has set to his seal that God is true;
(John 3:32‑33)
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Heb. 3:5• 5And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house, as a ministering servant, for a testimony of the things to be spoken after; (Heb. 3:5)
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1 John 5:9‑12• 9If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater. For this is the witness of God which he has witnessed concerning his Son.
10He that believes on the Son of God has the witness in himself; he that does not believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the witness which God has witnessed concerning his Son.
11And this is the witness, that God has given to us eternal life; and this life is in his Son.
12He that has the Son has life: he that has not the Son of God has not life.
(1 John 5:9‑12)
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Rev. 19:10• 10And I fell before his feet to do him homage. And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God. For the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. (Rev. 19:10)
seal.
among.
Isa. 54:13• 13And all thy children shall be taught of Jehovah, and great shall be the peace of thy children. (Isa. 54:13)
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Psa. 25:14• 14The secret of Jehovah is with them that fear him, that he may make known his covenant to them. (Psa. 25:14)
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Prov. 8:8‑9• 8All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing tortuous or perverse in them.
9They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge.
(Prov. 8:8‑9)
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Dan. 12:9‑10• 9And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for these words are closed and sealed till the time of the end.
10Many shall be purified, and be made white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
(Dan. 12:9‑10)
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Matt. 13:11• 11And he answering said to them, Because to you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of the heavens, but to them it is not given; (Matt. 13:11)
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Mark 4:10‑11,34• 10And when he was alone, those about him with the twelve asked him as to the parables.
11And he said to them, To you is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,
34but without a parable spoke he not to them; and in private he explained all things to his disciples.
(Mark 4:10‑11,34)
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Mark 10:10• 10And again in the house the disciples asked him concerning this. (Mark 10:10)
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1 Cor. 2:14• 14But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him; and he cannot know them because they are spiritually discerned; (1 Cor. 2:14)
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Rev. 2:17• 17He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the assemblies. To him that overcomes, to him will I give of the hidden manna; and I will give to him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he that receives it. (Rev. 2:17)
 {v.16-17} Though the mass of the people fall and are broken, as the Lord said in Matthew 21:44, the testimony and the law will not fail, but will be bound up among those who really fear the Lord. Such will wait upon the Lord instead of turning to confederacies with men, and they will look for the appearing of Immanuel. (Isaiah 8 by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.