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Isaiah 7:9

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Armies;   Ephraim;   Isaiah;   Pekah;   Rezin;   Samaria;   Syria;   Unbelief;   Scofield Reference Index - Christ;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ephraim, Tribe of;   Protection;   Samaria, Ancient;   Unbelief;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Ahaz;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Ephraim;   Syria;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Faith;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Remaliah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jehoshaphat;   Pekah;   Remaliah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Faith;   Isaiah;   Rhetoric;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Alliance;   Aram, Aramaeans;   Damascus;   Faith;   Immanuel;   Isaiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Rezin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Faith ;   Immanuel ;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Damascus;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Immanuel;   Pekah;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Remali'ah;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Faithful;   God;   Immanuel;   Isaiah;   Prophecy;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Assyria;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Damascus;   Faith;   Pekah;   Samaria;  

Contextual Overview

1Now in the days that Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, Rezin king of Aram marched up to wage war against Jerusalem. He was accompanied by Pekah son of Remaliah the king of Israel, but he could not overpower the city. 2When it became known to the house of David that Aram was in league with Ephraim, the hearts of Ahaz and his people trembled like trees in the forest shaken by the wind. 3Then the LORD said to Isaiah, "Go out with your son Shear-jashub to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct that feeds the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer's Field, 4and say to him: 'Calm down and be quiet. Do not be afraid or fainthearted over these two smoldering stubs of firewood, over the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. 5For Aram, along with Ephraim and the son of Remaliah, has plotted your ruin, saying, 6'Let us invade Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it for ourselves. Then we can install the son of Tabeal over it as king.'" 7But this is what the Lord GOD says: "It will not arise; it will not happen. 8For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people. 9The head of Ephraim is Samaria, 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."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the head: 1 Kings 16:24-29, 2 Kings 15:27

If ye: etc. or, ye not believe, it is because ye are not stable, 2 Chronicles 20:20, Acts 27:11, Acts 27:25, Romans 11:20, Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 5:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 4:5 - That they Exodus 16:28 - General Exodus 19:9 - believe Numbers 20:12 - Because ye believed Deuteronomy 1:32 - General Deuteronomy 32:20 - children 1 Kings 12:26 - Now shall 2 Kings 7:2 - thou shalt see it 2 Kings 7:20 - General 2 Chronicles 28:6 - Pekah Psalms 78:22 - General Isaiah 7:8 - For the head Isaiah 9:9 - even Ephraim Isaiah 28:1 - whose Jeremiah 43:2 - Thou speakest Hosea 5:3 - Ephraim Hosea 13:16 - Samaria Mark 11:22 - Have Luke 1:20 - because Acts 16:5 - so Romans 4:20 - staggered

Cross-References

Genesis 2:19
And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
Genesis 7:6
Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.
Genesis 7:9
came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded him.
Genesis 7:11
In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Genesis 7:12
And the rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Genesis 7:16
And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will do no harm nor destruction on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.
Jeremiah 8:7
Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons. The turtledove, the swift, and the thrush observe their time of migration, but My people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Colossians 3:11
Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria,..... Samaria was the metropolis or chief city of Ephraim, or the ten tribes of Israel:

and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son; Pekah, son of Remaliah, was king of Samaria, as of all Israel. The sense is, that, until the sixty five years were ended, there should be no enlargement of the kingdom of Israel; Judah should not be added to it; Samaria should continue, and not Jerusalem be the metropolis of it; and Pekah, during his life, should be king of Israel, but not of Judah.

If ye will not believe; the Targum adds,

"the words of the prophet;''

surely ye shall not be established, or remain g; that is, in their own land, but should be carried captive, as they were after a time; or it is, "because ye are not true and firm"; in the faith of God, as Kimchi interprets it; or, "because ye are not confirmed" h; that is, by a sign; wherefore it follows:

g כי לא תאמנו "non permanebitis", V. L. Cocceius. h "Quod non confirmamini", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the head of Ephraim - The capital city of Ephraim, or of Israel.

Is Samaria - This was long the capital of the kingdom of Israel. For a description of this city, see the notes at Isaiah 28:1. The meaning of the prophet is, that Samaria should continue to be the head of Ephraim; that is, Jerusalem should not be made its capital.

If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established - There is considerable variety in the interpretation of these words, though the general sense is evident. The Chaldee renders them, ‘If ye will not believe the words of the prophet, ye shall not remain.’ It is probable that Ahaz, who was greatly alarmed, and who trembled at the formidable power of Syria and Israel united, received the annunciation of the prophet with much distrust. He was anxious about the means of defense, but did not trust in the promise of God by the prophet. Isaiah, therefore, assures him, that if he did not believe him; if he did not put confidence in God, and his promises, he should not be protected from Syria and Ephraim. They would come and destroy his kingdom. ‘You have no occasion,’ is the language of the prophet, ‘to fear. God has resolved to protect you, and no portion of your land shall be taken by your enemies. Nevertheless, in order that you may obtain deliverance, you must believe his promise, and put your confidence in him, and not in the aid of the Assyrians. If you do this, your mind shall be calm, peaceful, and happy. But if you do “not” do this; if you rely on the aid of Assyria, you shall be troubled, alarmed, unsuccessful, and bring ruin upon yourself and nation.’ This, therefore, is an exhortation to confide solely in the promises of God, and is one of the instances constantly occurring in the Old Testament and the New, showing, that by faith or confidence in God only, can the mind he preserved calm when in the midst of dangers.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 7:9. Isaiah 7:8.


 
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