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Ahaz, the Immanuel Sign, and Invasion

Isaiah 7:1-25

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Chapter 7
1 And it was in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham son of Uzziah king of Judah: Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel went up to Jerusalem to war against it, and they could not fight against it. 2 And it was told to the house of David, saying, "Aram has encamped on Ephraim." And his heart moved, and the heart of his people, like the trees of the forest quiver before the wind. 3 The LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the Upper Pool, on the path of the Fuller's Field." 4 And say to him: Take heed and be quiet; do not fear, and do not let your heart grow soft from the two tails of these smoking firebrands, in the burning of the anger of Rezin and Aram and the son of Remaliah. 5 Because Aram has counseled evil against you, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, saying: 6 Let us go up to Judah and distress her and split her open to us and make the son of Tabeel king in her midst. 7 The Lord GOD says: It will not happen, and they will not succeed. 8 For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from the people. 9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you do not believe, surely you will not be established. 10 And the LORD continued to speak a word to Ahaz, saying: 11 Ask for yourself a sign from the LORD your God; deepen the request or heighten it upward. 12 And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not test the LORD." 13 And he said, "Hear now, house of David: Is it too little for you to weary people, that you also weary my God?" 14 Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the young woman is pregnant and will bear a son, and you will call his name Immanuel. 15 He will eat butter and honey to know to reject evil and choose good. 16 For before the boy knows to reject evil and choose good, the ground which you detest will be forsaken from before its two kings. 17 The LORD will bring upon you and upon your people and upon the house of your father days that have not come since the day of Ephraim's departing from Judah—the king of Assyria. 18 And it will be on that day that the LORD will whistle for the fly that is at the end of the rivers of Egypt and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19 And they will come and rest, all of them, in the wadis of the valleys and in the clefts of the cliffs and in all the thickets and in all the watering places. 20 On that day the Lord will shave with the hired razor—across the river, by the king of Assyria—the head and the hair of the feet, and it will also sweep away the beard. 21 And it will be on that day that a man will dwell with a heifer of oxen and two sheep. 22 And it will be from the abundance of the making of fat that he will eat butter; because butter and honey he will eat, all the one remaining in the midst of the land. 23 And it will be on that day: every place where there will be a thousand vines there at a thousand silver will be for briers and for thistles. 24 People will come there with arrows and bow, for all the land will be briers and thorns. 25 And all the mountains that are hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear of thornbush and thistle, and it will be for the sending-forth of oxen and for the trampling of sheep.