Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin: and within sixty and five years shall Ephraim be broken, to be no more a people.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus hath said the Lord Eternal, It shall not succeed, and it shall not come to pass.
Cross References
Genesis 14:15And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
2 Kings 17:5And the king of Assyria came up over all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.
Ezra 4:2Then came they near to Zerubbabel, and to the chiefs of the divisions, and said unto them, Let us build with you; for like you will we seek your God; and unto him do we sacrifice since the days of Essar-chaddon the king of Asshur, who hath brought us up hither.
Isaiah 17:1The doom of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is deprived of being a city, and it shall become decaying ruins.
Hosea 1:6And she conceived again, and bore a daughter: and he said unto him, Call her name Lo-ruchamah [[Not finding mercy]]; for I will not farther have any more mercy upon the house of Israel; but I will give them their full recompense.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 7:2-10
The Distress of Ahaz; Comfort Administered to Ahaz. ( b. c. 740.) 1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2 And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. 3 Then said the… Read the whole commentary →