Isaiah 7

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¹Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not conquer it. ✦ ²When it was reported to the house of David, saying, “The Arameans have taken a stand by Ephraim,” his heart and the hearts of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake from the wind. ✦ ³Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the road to the fuller’s field, ✦ ⁴and say to him, ‘Take care and be calm, have no fear and do not be fainthearted because of these two stumps of smoldering logs, on account of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. ✦ ⁵Because Aram, with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has planned evil against you, saying, ✦ ⁶“Let’s go up against Judah and terrorize it, and take it for ourselves by assault and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” ⁷this is what the Lord God says: “It shall not stand nor shall it come to pass. ✦ ⁸For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (now within another sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken to pieces, so that it is no longer a people), ✦ ⁹and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, you certainly shall not last.” ’ ” ✦ ¹⁰Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz, saying, ✦ ¹¹“Ask for a sign for yourself from the Lord your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” ✦ ¹²But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I put the Lord to the test!” ✦ ¹³Then he said, “Listen now, house of David! Is it too trivial a thing for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God as well? ✦ ¹⁴Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and she will name Him Immanuel. ✦ ¹⁵He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good. ✦ ¹⁶For before the boy knows enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be abandoned. ✦ ¹⁷The Lord will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that Ephraim separated from Judah—the days of the king of Assyria.” ✦ ¹⁸On that day the Lord will whistle for the fly that is in the remotest part of the canals of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. ✦ ¹⁹They will all come and settle on the steep ravines, on the ledges of the cliffs, on all the thorn bushes, and on all the watering places. ✦ ²⁰On that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates River (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard. ✦ ²¹Now on that day a person may keep alive only a heifer and a pair of sheep; ✦ ²²and because of the abundance of the milk produced he will eat curds, for everyone who is left within the land will eat curds and honey. ✦ ²³And it will come about on that day, that every place where there used to be a thousand vines, valued at a thousand shekels of silver, will become briars and thorns. ✦ ²⁴People will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be briars and thorns. ✦ ²⁵As for all the hills which used to be cultivated with the plow, you will not go there for fear of briars and thorns; but they will become a place for pasturing oxen and for sheep to trample. ✦

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Where this chapter connects

Isa 8 ·14 Isa 7 ·11 Isa 10 ·7 2 Kgs 15 ·5 2 Chr 28 ·5 Isa 1 ·5 Isa 37 ·5 2 Kgs 16 ·4

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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

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★ Start hereCommentaryThe Book of Isaiah (NICOT)John N. Oswalt · Paid · evangelical
The standard evangelical commentary on Isaiah — thorough and devotionally warm.

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