Isaiah 8:4

My father. By the age of one year a child usually has the ability to say “da da” and “mamma.” Before this child became two years of age the Assyrians would spoil both Israel and Syria. This prophecy was fulfilled in 732, when Pekah and Rezin lost their thrones, and, later, their lives (Isa. 7:16; cf. 2 Kings 15:30; 16:9). Thus the writing of the name Maher-shalal-hash-baz on the tablet was a sign of the speedy coming of the Assyrians to “spoil” Samaria and to “plunder” Syria (see on Isa. 8:1).

On one clay tablet Tiglath-pileser declares that the people of Israel overthrew their king, and that he then placed Hoshea upon the throne (see Vol. II, p. 85). According to Kings 15:29, 30, it was in the days of Pekah that Tiglath-pileser conquered “Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria” and that Hoshea slew Pekah and took his throne. And according to 2 Kings 16:7-9 it was when Ahaz called for Assyrian aid that Tiglath-pileser took Damascus, carried its people away captive, and slew Rezin. Instead of relying upon God for help, Ahaz had asked Tiglath-pileser to save him out of the hands of the kings of Israel and Syria (2 Kings 16:7). But in doing this, Ahaz was only inviting judgments upon Judah. The chronicler declares that by his transgressions Ahaz made Judah “naked,” and that although Tiglath-pileser came, he “distressed him, but strengthened him not” (2 Chron. 28:19, 20).