Isaiah 7:8
For the head of Aram [is] Damascus, And the head of Damascus [is] Rezin, And within sixty and five years Is Ephraim broken from [being] a people.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
7Thus said the Lord Jehovah: It doth not stand, nor shall it be!
Cross References
Genesis 14:15And he divideth himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smiteth them, and pursueth them unto Hobah, which [is] at the left of Damascus;
2 Kings 17:5And the king of Asshur goeth up into all the land, and he goeth up to Samaria, and layeth siege against it three years;
Ezra 4:2and they draw nigh unto Zerubbabel, and unto heads of the fathers, and say to them, 'Let us build with you; for, like you, we seek to your God, and we are not sacrificing since the days of Esar-Haddon king of Asshur, who brought us up hither.'
Isaiah 17:1The burden of Damascus. Lo, Damascus is taken away from [being] a city, And it hath been a heap — a ruin.
Hosea 1:6And she conceiveth again, and beareth a daughter, and He saith to him, 'Call her name Lo-Ruhamah, for I add no more to pity the house of Israel, for I do utterly take them away;
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 →