7:3 So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub7 and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.8
tn The name means “a remnant will return.” Perhaps in this context, where the Lord is trying to encourage Ahaz, the name suggests that only a few of the enemy invaders will return home; the rest will be defeated.
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tnHeb “the field of the washer”; traditionally “the fuller’s field” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “the Washerman’s Field.”