Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 8:6

6 For as much as this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly , and rejoyce in Rezin and Remaliahs son:

Either, 1. the People of Iudah, which are suppos'd to have grown weary of their present Government, and out of distrust of God's Protection, designed to revolt from God, and from the House of David, and to put themselves under the Power and Protection of the Kings of Syria and Israel. But there are no Footsteps of any such Design or Practice of that People. And the following Clause of rejoycing in Rezin, &c. cannot with any colour be ascribed to the Iews, whom at this time they sought to destroy: or, rather, 2. the People of Israel, of whom he last spake, v. 4. and who are the chief Subject of this whole Prophecy, contained in this and the foregoing Chapter; and who did rejoyce not onely in their own King Pekah, but also in the Assistance of so powerful an Allie as Rezin was.

Or rather, despiseth, as the Word properly and most frequently signifies.

That small and contemptible River or Brook which ran by that City, which is here secretly opposed to the great Rivers of Tig[illegible: 1+ letters]s and Euphrates, by which the Assyrian Empire was fortified. Hereby he understa[illegible: 1+ letters] the Munitions and Strength of the Iews, which their Enemies derided and contemned.

Gently, as little Rivers do.

Marginal references: Or, despiseth.