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Isaiah 7 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz
Isaiah Predicts the Messiah
(2 Kin. 16:5; 2 Chr. 28:5–15 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 - Now it came to pass in the days of Ahaz 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 it, but could not prevail against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:2 - And it was told to the house of David, saying, “Syria’s forces are 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:3 - Then the LORD said to Isaiah, “Go out now to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-Jashub[fn] your son, at the end of the aqueduct from the upper pool, on the highway to the Fuller’s Field,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:4 - “and say to him: ‘Take heed, and be quiet; 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:5 - ‘Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah have plotted evil against you, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:6 - “Let us go up against Judah and trouble it, and let us make a gap in its wall for ourselves, and set a king over them, the son of Tabel”—

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:7 - ‘thus says the Lord GOD:

“It shall not stand,
Nor shall it come to pass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:8 - For 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:9 - 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.” ’ ”
The Immanuel Prophecy

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:10 - Moreover the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:11 - “Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth or in the height above.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:12 - But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:13 - Then he said, “Hear now, O house of David! Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will you weary my God also?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:14 - “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a Son, and shall call His name Immanuel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:15 - “Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:16 - “For before the Child shall know to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land that you dread will be forsaken by both her kings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:17 - “The LORD will bring the king of Assyria upon you and your people and your father’s house—days that have not come since the day that Ephraim departed from Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:18 - And it shall come to pass in that day
That the LORD will whistle for the fly
That is in the farthest part of the rivers of Egypt,
And for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:19 - They will come, and all of them will rest
In the desolate valleys and in the clefts of the rocks,
And on all thorns and in all pastures.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:20 - In the same day the Lord will shave with a hired razor,
With those from beyond the River,[fn] with the king of Assyria,
The head and the hair of the legs,
And will also remove the beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:21 - It shall be in that day
That a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:22 - So it shall be, from the abundance of milk they give,
That he will eat curds;
For curds and honey everyone will eat who is left in the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:23 - It shall happen in that day,
That wherever there could be a thousand vines
Worth a thousand shekels of silver,
It will be for briers and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:24 - With arrows and bows men will come there,
Because all the land will become briers and thorns.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:25 - And to any hill which could be dug with the hoe,
You will not go there for fear of briers and thorns;
But it will become a range for oxen
And a place for sheep to roam.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Literally A Remnant Shall Return
Literally God-With-Us
That is, the Euphrates
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New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

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