(In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
Parallel translations
- WEB In those days, Yahweh began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
- KJV In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
- NKJV In those days the Lord began to send Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
- NASB In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
- NLT In those days the Lord began to send King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah of Israel to attack Judah.
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Quick answer
The LORD begins to raise up Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel against Judah. Even foreign aggression is shown to be under God's sovereign hand.
Overview
This verse introduces the Syro-Ephraimite threat that will dominate Ahaz's reign and Isaiah 7. Notably, it is the LORD who 'began to send' these enemies, affirming that God governs the nations and uses them to discipline His people. This pressure sets the stage for the famous Immanuel prophecy given to the house of David.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Isa 7:1Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city.
- 2 Kgs 16:5Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to wage war against Jerusalem. They besieged Ahaz but could not overcome him.
- Jer 25:29For behold, I am beginning to bring disaster on the city that bears My Name, so how could you possibly go unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for I am calling down a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, declares the LORD of Hosts.’
- Jer 16:16But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain and hill, even from the clefts of the rocks.
- Luke 21:28When these things begin to happen, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near.”
- 1 Sam 3:12On that day I will carry out against Eli everything I have spoken about his family, from beginning to end.
- 2 Chr 28:6For in one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed 120,000 valiant men in Judah. This happened because they had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- Isa 10:5–7Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath.
- Hos 5:12–13So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.
- 2 Kgs 10:32In those days the LORD began to reduce the size of Israel. Hazael defeated the Israelites throughout their territory
- Deut 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Jer 43:10Then tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will send for My servant Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and I will set his throne over these stones that I have embedded, and he will spread his royal pavilion over them.
- Ps 78:49He unleashed His fury against them, wrath, indignation, and calamity—a band of destroying angels.
- Isa 38:1–22In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came to him and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you will not recover.’”
- Isa 7:8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered as a people.
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Amid the long decline toward exile, the promise to David's house refuses to die; the flickering lamp kept burning anticipates the coming King who will not fail or be cut off.
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