Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

Isaiah 7

1 Now it came to pass in the days of a Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against b it, but could not 1 prevail against it. 2 And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Syria's forces are 2 deployed in Ephraim." So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.

3 Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and 3 ShearJa'shub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller's Field, 4 "and say to him: 4 'Take heed, and 5 be c quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah. 5 'Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying, 6 "Let us go up against Judah and 6 trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel" -

7 'thus says the Lord GOD:
d "It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass. 8 e For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be 7 broken,
So that it will not be a people. 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son.
f If you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established." ' "

  1. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 28:1
    Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem; and he did not do what was right in the sight of the LORD, as his father David had done.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:5
    Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
    2 Kings 16:9
    So the king of Assyria heeded him; for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus and took it, carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 14:13
    And Moses said to the people, "Do not be afraid. Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which He will accomplish for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall see again no more forever.
    Isaiah 30:15
    For thus says the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel: "In returning and rest you shall be saved; In quietness and confidence shall be your strength." But you would not.
    Lamentations 3:26
    It is good that one should hope and wait quietly For the salvation of the LORD.
  4. Cross References
    2 Kings 16:5
    Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war; and they besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
    Isaiah 8:10
    Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us.
    Acts 4:25
    Who by the mouth of Your servant David have said: 'Why did the nations rage, And the people plot vain things?
    Acts 4:26
    The kings of the earth took their stand, And the rulers were gathered together Against the LORD and against His Christ.
  5. Cross References
    2 Samuel 8:6
    Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became David's servants, and brought tribute. So the LORD preserved David wherever he went.
    2 Kings 17:6
    In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
  6. Cross References
    2 Chronicles 20:20
    So they rose early in the morning and went out into the Wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, O Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem: Believe in the LORD your God, and you shall be established; believe His prophets, and you shall prosper.
    Isaiah 5:24
    Therefore, as the fire devours the stubble, And the flame consumes the chaff, So their root will be as rottenness, And their blossom will ascend like dust; Because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
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