John Trapp on Isaiah 8:2

Ver. 2. And I took unto me faithful witneſſes] So they might be, and yet not godly men: as Galba and our Rich. 3. were ſaid to be bad men, but yet good Princes. Some think that this Ʋriah was the ſame with him that brought in the Altar of Damaſcus. He had been better perhaps, but at laſt revolted: as did Demas (of whom Dorotheus ſaith that he became a Prieſt in an idol temple at Theſſalonica) and Damaſcen who turned Mahometan, as ſome write. Zechariah the other witneſs was a man of great eminency, as being grand-father (by the mothers ſide) to good Hezekiah.