(1) A son whom "a virgin" (A.V. and R.V.) or "the maiden" (R.V. margin) should bear in Isaiah's time.  Before that child should be old enough "to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest" (it was said) "shall be forsaken of both her kings" (Isa. vii. 16—A.V.); or "the land whose two kings thou abhorrest shall be forsaken" (R.V.).  The two kings seem to have been those of Damascus and Israel, then confederate against Judah; but the date referred to is obscure.  Verse 8 states that the judgment threatened on Damascus and "Ephraim," i.e. Israel, should come within sixty-five years, but a child soon to be born would attain to years of discretion much within that time.  The child Immanuel in Isaiah's days was evidently an important personage, for speaking of Judah the prophet says, "thy land, O Immanuel" (viii. 8).
    (2) Jesus, the true Immanuel, God with us, in whom Isaiah's prophecy received its remoter but much more complete fulfilment (Matt. i. 22, 23—A.V. and R.V.). (The Sunday School Teacher's Bible Manual, Hunter, 1894).