Thematic Bible
Isaiah 7:1 (show verse)
This took place during the reign of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah king of Judah: Rezin king of Aram, along with Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, waged war against Jerusalem, but he could not succeed.
Isaiah 7:2 (show verse)
When it became known to the house of David that Aram had occupied Ephraim, the heart of Ahaz and the hearts of his people trembled like trees of a forest shaking in the wind.
Isaiah 7:3 (show verse)
Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, by the road to the Fuller’s Field.
Isaiah 7:4 (show verse)
Say to him: Calm down and be quiet. Don’t be afraid or cowardly because of these two smoldering stubs of firebrands, the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram, and the son of Remaliah.
Isaiah 7:5 (show verse)
For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted harm against you. They say,
Isaiah 7:6 (show verse)
‘Let us go up against Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install Tabeel’s son as king in it.’”
Isaiah 7:7 (show verse)
This is what the Lord God says:
It will not happen; it will not occur.
Isaiah 7:8 (show verse)
the head of Damascus is Rezin
(within 65 years
Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people),
Isaiah 7:9 (show verse)
and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah.
If you do not stand firm in your faith,
then you will not stand at all.
Isaiah 7:10 (show verse)
Then the Lord spoke again to Ahaz:
Isaiah 7:11 (show verse)
“Ask for a sign from the Lord your God—from the depths of Sheol to the heights of heaven.”
Isaiah 7:12 (show verse)
But Ahaz replied, “I will not ask. I will not test the Lord.”
Isaiah 7:13 (show verse)
Isaiah said, “Listen, house of David! Is it not enough for you to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?
Isaiah 7:14 (show verse)
Therefore, the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive, have a son, and name him Immanuel.
Isaiah 7:15 (show verse)
By the time he learns to reject what is bad and choose what is good, he will be eating butter and honey.
Isaiah 7:16 (show verse)
For before the boy knows to reject what is bad and choose what is good, the land of the two kings you dread will be abandoned.
Isaiah 7:17 (show verse)
The Lord will bring on you, your people, and the house of your father, such a time as has never been since Ephraim separated from Judah—the king of Assyria is coming.”
Isaiah 7:18 (show verse)
the Lord will whistle
that is at the farthest streams of the Nile
and to the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Isaiah 7:19 (show verse)
in the steep ravines, in the clefts of the rocks,
in all the thornbushes, and in all the water holes.
Isaiah 7:20 (show verse)
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River—the king of Assyria—to shave the head, the hair on the legs, and to remove the beard as well.
Isaiah 7:21 (show verse)
a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
Isaiah 7:22 (show verse)
he will eat butter,
for every survivor in the land will eat butter and honey.
Isaiah 7:23 (show verse)
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.
Isaiah 7:24 (show verse)
because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
Isaiah 7:25 (show verse)
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.