What does the name of Isaiah’s son Maher-shalal-hash-baz mean?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The name of Isaiah’s child … means ‘quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil’—referring to the speed of the Assyrian destruction of Syria and Israel” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:190).

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