ἐκσπασθῇ] So A alone, other MSS. ἐκπέσῃς which may be a substitution, to suit βάλανος in its usual meaning of ‘acorn.’

LXX. omits the last clause of the chapter; it is supplied from Theodotion by 17 cursives, Lucianic and others, including 301.

VII. I. According to Hebrew practice, βασιλέως Ἰούδα refers to Ahaz, not to Uzziah: as the Greek shows later in the verse, cf. for instance 2 Kings xviii. I. This Elah, and Remaliah, were not kings of Israel.

῾Ραασσὼν (Ῥασεὶν Β). . .Φάκεε] Lxx. often present proper names different forms from the Hebrew, and with wide variations among the MSS. These differences are passed by without comment, unless required for some special reason, e.g. where it seems probable that a different name altogether from the Hebrew is intended.

Ἀρὰμ] This name is generally transliterated in Isaiah; but not in ix. 12, xvii. 3, where Συρία, Σύρος are used, as usually in the Lxx. In Hebrew, Aram and Edom are closely alike in the consonantal text, and liable to confusion, see, e.g., 2 Sam. viii. 12: but Aram and Asshur are quite distinct, whereas Syria and Assyria were frequently confused by the Greeks and Romans: thus a corrector of A has Ασσυρων in xvii. 3. See Herod. VII. 63, Aesch. Persae, 84 (a possible case), and Horace, Od. III. iv. 31, “Tentabo et urentes arenasLitoris Assyrii viator” which may recall the ship that “hath ’d upon the deserts of Bohemia,” Shakesp. Winter's Tale, Act III. Sc. iii. Also Od. II. xi. 16 Virg. Georg. II. 465.