Isaiah 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 15:25 · 2Ki 15:37 · 2Ki 16:1 · 2Chr 28:1 · Ps 83:3 · Isa 1:1 · +3 more

2David’s house was told, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Num 14:1 · Deut 28:65 · 2Sam 7:16 · 1Ki 11:32 · 1Ki 12:16 · +21 more

3Then Yahweh said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller’s field.Cross-references: Ex 7:15 · 2Ki 18:17 · 2Ki 20:20 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 10:21 · Isa 36:2 · +4 more

4Tell him, ‘Be careful, and keep calm. Don’t be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking torches, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Deut 20:3 · 1Sam 17:32 · 2Ki 15:29 · 2Chr 20:17 · Isa 7:1 · +14 more

5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,Cross-references: Ps 2:2 · Ps 83:3 · Nah 1:11 · Zech 1:15

6“Let’s go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let’s divide it among ourselves, and set up a king within it, even the son of Tabeel.”

7This is what the Lord Yahweh says: “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.”Cross-references: Ps 2:4 · Ps 33:11 · Ps 76:10 · Prov 21:30 · Isa 8:10 · Isa 10:6 · +5 more

8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people.Cross-references: Gen 14:15 · 2Sam 8:6 · 2Ki 17:5 · Ezra 4:2 · Isa 8:4 · Isa 17:1 · +1 more

9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.’”Cross-references: 1Ki 16:24 · 2Ki 15:27 · 2Chr 20:20 · Isa 8:6 · Isa 30:12 · Acts 27:11 · +4 more

10Yahweh spoke again to Ahaz, saying,Cross-references: Isa 1:5 · Isa 1:13 · Isa 8:5 · Isa 10:20 · Hos 13:2

11“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”Cross-references: Judg 6:36 · 2Ki 19:29 · 2Ki 20:8 · Isa 37:30 · Isa 38:7 · Isa 38:22 · +5 more

12But Ahaz said, “I won’t ask. I won’t tempt Yahweh.”Cross-references: Deut 6:16 · 2Ki 16:15 · 2Chr 28:22 · Ezek 33:31 · Mal 3:15 · Acts 5:9 · +1 more

13He said, “Listen now, house of David. Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?Cross-references: Gen 30:15 · Num 16:9 · Num 16:13 · 2Chr 21:7 · 2Chr 36:15 · Isa 1:24 · +15 more

14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.Cross-references: Gen 3:15 · Gen 4:1 · Gen 4:25 · Gen 16:11 · Gen 29:32 · Gen 30:6 · +14 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

15He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil and choose the good.Cross-references: Ps 51:5 · Isa 7:22 · Amos 5:15 · Matt 3:4 · Luke 1:35 · Luke 2:40 · +3 more

16For before the child knows to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.Cross-references: Deut 1:39 · 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 16:9 · Isa 8:4 · Isa 9:11 · Isa 17:1 · +3 more

17Yahweh will bring on you, on your people, and on your father’s house days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah, even the king of Assyria.Cross-references: 1Ki 12:16 · 2Ki 18:1 · 2Chr 10:16 · 2Chr 28:19 · 2Chr 32:1 · 2Chr 33:11 · +5 more

18It will happen in that day that Yahweh will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.Cross-references: Ex 8:21 · Ex 8:24 · Deut 1:44 · Deut 7:20 · Josh 24:12 · 2Ki 23:33 · +6 more

19They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.Cross-references: 2Chr 33:11 · Isa 2:19 · Isa 2:21 · Jer 16:16 · Mic 7:17

20In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.Cross-references: 2Ki 16:7 · 2Ki 18:13 · 2Chr 28:20 · Isa 1:5 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 9:14 · +8 more

21It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep.Cross-references: Isa 5:17 · Isa 7:25 · Isa 17:2 · Isa 37:30 · Jer 39:10

22It shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter, for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left within the land.Cross-references: 2Sam 17:29 · Isa 7:15 · Matt 3:4

23It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels, will be for briers and thorns.Cross-references: Song 8:11 · Isa 5:6 · Isa 32:12 · Jer 4:26 · Matt 21:33 · Heb 6:8

24People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.Cross-references: Gen 27:3

25All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending out of oxen, and for sheep to tread on.”Cross-references: Isa 5:17 · Isa 7:21 · Isa 13:20 · Isa 17:2 · Zeph 2:6