Isaiah 7:9

And the rosh of Ephrayim is Shomron, 1 and the rosh of Shomron is ben Remalyahu. 1 If ye will not stand in emunah, 1 then you shall not stand at all.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.

In Context

8For the rosh of Aram (Syria) is Damascus, 1 and the rosh of Damascus is Retzin; 1 and within threescore and five shanah 1 shall Ephrayim be broken, that it be not a people. 1

10Moreover, Hashem spoke again unto Achaz, saying,

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Cross References

1 Kings 16:24And he bought the Har Shomron from Shemer for two talents of kesef, and built on the hill, and called the shem of the Ir which he built, after the shem of Shemer, adonei hahar (owner of the hill), Shomron.

2 Chronicles 20:20And they rose early in the boker, and went forth into the Midbar Tekoa; and as they went forth, Yehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Yehudah, and ye inhabitants of Yerushalayim. Ha'aminu Ba Hashem Eloheichem (Believe in Hashem Eloheichem), so shall ye be established; have faith in His Nevi'im, so shall ye be victorious.

Isaiah 28:1Hoy (woe, doom) to the ateret ge'ut (crown of pride), 1 to the shikkorei Ephrayim (drunkards of Ephrayim), 1 whose glorious beauty 1 is a fading tzitz (flower), 1 which are on the rosh of the verdant gey (valley) 1 of them that are overcome with yayin! 1

Acts 27:11But the centurion was persuaded by the pilot and the owner rather than by the devarim of Rav Sha'ul.

Romans 11:20Quite so: they were broken off on the mekor (basis) of no emunah, but you stand only by emunah. Do not cherish proud thoughts, but fear.

1 John 5:10The one with emunah in the Zun fun der Oybershter has the eidus, even the eidus (witness), in himself; the one without emunah in Hashem has made Hashem a shakran (liar), because he has not had emunah in the eidus which Hashem has testified concerning His Zun fun der Oybershter.

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 →

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