7When Ahaz^y son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin^z of Aram^a and Pekah^b son of Remaliah^c king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.

²Now the house of David^d was told, “Aram has allied itself with^a Ephraim^e”; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken,^f as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.

³Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,^b^g to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.^h ⁴Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calmⁱ and don’t be afraid.^j Do not lose heart^k because of these two smoldering stubs^l of firewood—because of the fierce anger^m of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah.ⁿ ⁵Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah’s^o son have plotted^p your ruin, saying, ⁶“Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.” ⁷Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says:^q

“ ‘It will not take place,

it will not happen,^r

⁸for the head of Aram is Damascus,^s

and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.^t

Within sixty-five years

Ephraim will be too shattered^u to be a people.

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Footnotes

aOr has set up camp in
bShear-Jashub means a remnant will return.

Cross references

ySee 1 Ch 3:13
zSee ver 8; See 2 Ki 15:37
a 2 Ch 28:5
bSee 2 Ki 15:25
cver 5, 9; Isa 8:6
dver 13; See 2 Sa 7:11; Isa 16:5; 22:22; Jer 21:12; Am 9:11
e Isa 9:9; Hos 5:3
f Isa 6:4; Da 5:6
g Isa 10:21–22
h 2 Ki 18:17; Isa 36:2
i Isa 30:15; La 3:26
jSee Ge 15:1; See Dt 3:2; Isa 8:12; 12:2; 35:4; 37:6; Mt 24:6
kSee Dt 20:3; See Isa 21:4
l Am 4:11; Zec 3:2
m Isa 10:24; 51:13; 54:14
nSee 2 Ki 15:27
oSee ver 1
pver 2
q Isa 24:3; 25:8; 28:16
r Ps 2:1; Isa 8:10; 14:24; 28:18; 40:8; 46:10; Ac 4:25
sSee Ge 14:15
tver 1; Isa 9:11
u 2 Ki 17:24; Isa 8:4; 17:1–3