◄ Isaiah 8:2 ►
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Good News Translation
Get two reliable men, the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah, to serve as witnesses."

New Revised Standard Version
and have it attested for me by reliable witnesses, the priest Uriah and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah.

Contemporary English Version
I will tell Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberechiah to serve as witnesses to this."

New American Bible
and call reliable witnesses for me, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah, son of Jeberechiah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.

I took

Ruth 4:2,10,11 And Booz, taking ten men of the ancients of the city, said to them: Sit ye down here. . . .

2 Corinthians 13:1 Behold, this is the third time I am coming to you: In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word stand.

Uriah

2 Kings 16:10,11 And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according to all the work thereof. . . .

2 Kings 18:2 He was five and twenty years old when he began to reign: and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem: the name of his mother was Abi, the daughter of Zacharias.

Context
Assyrian Invasion Prophesied
1And the Lord said to me: Take thee a great book, and write in it with a man's pen. Take away the spoils with speed, quickly take the prey. 2And I took unto me faithful witnesses, Urias the priest, and Zacharias the son of Barachias.3And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived, and bore a son. And the Lord said to me: Call his name, Hasten to take away the spoils: Make hast to take away the prey.…
Cross References
2 Kings 16:10
And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according to all the work thereof.

2 Kings 16:11
And Urias, the priest, built an altar according to all that king Achaz had commanded from Damascus so did Urias, the priest, until king Achaz came from Damascus.

Isaiah 8:16
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

Jeremiah 32:10
And I wrote it in a book and sealed it, and took witnesses: and I weighed him the money in the balances.

Isaiah 8:1
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