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Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

1 Now it came to pass in the days of aAhaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against bit, but could not prevail against it.  
2 And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are1 deployed in Ephraim.” So his heart and the heart of his people were moved as the trees of the woods are moved with the wind.  
3 Then the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field,  
4 and say to him: ‘Take heed, and2 be aquiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.  
5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,
6 “Let us go up against Judah and1 trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”— 
7 thus says the Lord God:
a“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass. 
8 aFor the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be broken,
So that it will not be a people. 
9 The head of Ephraim is Samaria,
And the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son.
aIf you will not believe,
Surely you shall not be established.” ’ ”  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Isaiah 7:3

Go forth—out of the city, to the place where Ahaz was superintending the works for defense and the cutting off of the water supply from the enemy, and securing it to the city. So Isaiah 22:9; II Chronicles 32:4.

Shearjashub—that is, A remnant shall return (Isaiah 6:13). His very name Isaiah 7:14; Isaiah 8:3 was a standing memorial to Ahaz and the Jews that the nation should not, notwithstanding the general calamity (Isaiah 7:17-25; Isaiah 8:6-8), be utterly destroyed (Isaiah 10:21-22).

conduit—an aqueduct from the pool or reservoir for the supply of the city. At the foot of Zion was Fount Siloah (Isaiah 8:6; Nehemiah 3:15; John 9:7), called also Gihon, on the west of Jerusalem (II Chronicles 32:30). Two pools were supplied from it, the Upper, or Old (Isaiah 22:11), or King's (Nehemiah 2:14), and the Lower (Isaiah 22:9), which received the superfluous waters of the upper. The upper pool is still to be seen, about seven hundred yards from the Jaffa gate. The highway leading to the fullers' field, which was in a position near water for the purposes of washing, previous to drying and bleaching, the cloth, was probably alongside the aqueduct.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 7:3:

Isaiah 8:18
Isaiah 10:20-22
Isaiah 22:9
Isaiah 22:11
Isaiah 36:2
Amos 3:12

 

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