Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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Gill's Exposition
Butter and honey shall he eat..... As the Messiah Jesus no doubt did; since he was born in a land flowing with milk and honey, and in a time of plenty, being a time of general peace; so that this…
Barnes' Notes
Butter and honey - The word rendered “butter” (חמאה chem'âh), denotes not butter, but thick and curdled milk. This was the common mode of using milk as an article of food in the East, and is still.…
Here, I. God, by the prophet, makes a gracious offer to Ahaz, to confirm the foregoing predictions, and his faith in them, by such sign or miracle as he should choose (Isa 7:10, Isa 7:11): Ask thee a…
Cambridge Bible
Butter and honey shall he eat This has to be explained by Isa 7:7, where the eating of butter (lit. "thick milk") and (wild) honey is a symptom of the primitive simplicity to which human life is…
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