In those days the Lord began to send King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah of Israel to attack 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.
- BSB (In those days the LORD began to send Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah against Judah.)
- 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.
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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.
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Cross-references · 15
- Isa 7:1In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
- 2 Kgs 16:5Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war. They besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.
- Jer 25:29For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’
- Jer 16:16“Behold, I will send for many fishermen,” says Yahweh, “and they shall fish them up; and afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
- Luke 21:28But when these things begin to happen, look up, and lift up your heads, because your redemption is near.”
- 1 Sam 3:12In that day I will perform against Eli all that I have spoken concerning his house, from the beginning even to the end.
- 2 Chr 28:6For Pekah the son of Remaliah killed in Judah one hundred twenty thousand in one day, all of them valiant men, because they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
- Isa 10:5–7Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
- Hos 5:12–13Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.
- 2 Kgs 10:32In those days Yahweh began to cut away parts of Israel; and Hazael struck them in all the borders of Israel;
- Deut 28:48therefore you will serve your enemies whom Yahweh sends against you, in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in lack of all things. He will put an iron yoke on your neck, until he has destroyed you.
- Jer 43:10and tell them, Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne on these stones that I have hidden; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.
- Ps 78:49He threw on them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, indignation, and trouble, and a band of angels of evil.
- Isa 38:1–22In those days was Hezekiah sick and near death. Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, “Yahweh says, ‘Set your house in order, for you will die, and not live.’”
- Isa 7:8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be 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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