(ʿimmānû ʾēl) “God is with us.” The name of this son suggests a general hope for an heir who will be a godly Davidic ruler to replace Ahaz at some point in the future, but the name Immanuel is not applied to any specific situation until a later message (8:8, 10; 9:1–7). The child’s age and moral abilities are mentioned in 7:15–16, but otherwise his importance is largely ignored in the following verses. Thus the contextual surrounding of 7:14 does not give very much information that would help