is asserting that God is not faithful to His promise. In fearing that Syria and Israel could actually depose him, he is expressing disbelief that “there shall not fail thee a man in my sight to sit on the throne of Israel” (1 Kings 8:25). A son of David is willing to reject the covenant. God therefore must take over, and give a sign of the greater deliverance, as well as of the proximate deliverance from Syria and Israel. He who will give the sign is ʾadon.31 Possibly Isaiah deliberately uses this