Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 7:16

16 For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and chuse the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her Kings .

Or, Yea; for so this Particle is used by way of amplification or addition, Isa. 32. 13. Ier. 14. 5, 18. So the sence is, Not onely this Land of thine shall be preserved until the Virgins Son be born, but thine Enemies Land shall be sorely scourged, and these two Kings destroyed, within a very little time.

Heb. this child; not the Virgins Son, but the Prophets Child, Shear-jashub, whom in all probability the Prophet, to prevent mistakes, pointed at, and who was brought hither by God's special command, v. 3. and that for this very use; for otherwise his Presence was wholly insignificant.

The Lands, to wit, of Syria and Israel, as is evident from the next Words. It is an Euallage of the Singular for the Plural.

For its cruel Designs and Practices against. Or, which vexeth or moles[illegible: 1+ letters]eth thee, as this Word is used Exod. 1. 12. Numb. 22. 3. &c.

So far shall Pekah and Rezin be from conquering thy Land, that they shall lose their own Lands, and their Lives too; which they did within two years after this time, being both slain by the King of Assyria, 2 Kings 15. 29, 30. & 16. 9.

Marginal references: See Ch. 8. 4.