Isaiah 7:8
because the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. 1 Within sixty-five years, Ephraim will be shattered and will no longer be a people. 1
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7The Lord Yahweh says, “It will not take place; it will not happen, 1
Cross References
Genesis 14:15He divided his men against them at night and attacked them, and pursued them as far as Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
2 Kings 17:5Then the king of Assyria attacked throughout all the land, and attacked Samaria and besieged it for three years.
Ezra 4:2So they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of their ancestors' clans. They said to them, “Let us build with you, for, like you, we seek your God and have sacrificed to him since the days when Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, brought us to this place.”
Isaiah 17:1A declaration about Damascus. 1
Hosea 1:6Gomer conceived again and bore a daughter. Then Yahweh said to Hosea, 1 “Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, 1 for I will no longer have mercy 1 on the house of Israel, 1 that I should forgive them at all. 1
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 →