Thematic Bible




Isaiah 7:1 (show verse)

It happened 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 to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 7:2 (show verse)

It was told the house of David, saying, "Syria is allied with Ephraim." His heart trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind.

Isaiah 7:3 (show verse)

Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the Launderers' Field.

Isaiah 7:4 (show verse)

Tell him, 'Be careful, and keep calm. Do not be afraid, neither let your heart be faint because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

Isaiah 7:5 (show verse)

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have plotted evil against you, saying,

Isaiah 7:6 (show verse)

"Let's go up against Judah, and tear it apart, and let's divide it among ourselves, and set up a king in its midst, even the son of Tabeel."

Isaiah 7:7 (show verse)

This is what the Lord GOD says: "It shall not stand, neither shall it happen."

Isaiah 7:8 (show verse)

For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people;

Isaiah 7:9 (show verse)

and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'"

Isaiah 7:10 (show verse)

The LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

Isaiah 7:11 (show verse)

"Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above."

Isaiah 7:12 (show verse)

But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD."

Isaiah 7:13 (show verse)

He said, "Listen now, house of David: Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men, that you will try the patience of my God also?

Isaiah 7:14 (show verse)

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Isaiah 7:15 (show verse)

He shall eat butter and honey when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

Isaiah 7:16 (show verse)

For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.

Isaiah 7:17 (show verse)

The LORD will bring on you, on your people, and on your father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:18 (show verse)

It will happen in that day that the LORD will whistle for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

Isaiah 7:19 (show verse)

They shall come, and shall all rest in the desolate valleys, in the clefts of the rocks, on all thorn hedges, and on all pastures.

Isaiah 7:20 (show verse)

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

Isaiah 7:21 (show verse)

It shall happen in that day that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;

Isaiah 7:22 (show verse)

and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for everyone will eat butter and honey that is left in the midst of the land.

Isaiah 7:23 (show verse)

It will happen in that day that every place where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:24 (show verse)

People will go there with arrows and with bow, because all the land will be briers and thorns.

Isaiah 7:25 (show verse)

All the hills that were cultivated with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep."