Isaiah · Chapter 7 King James Version

Isaiah 7:8

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The Scripture

(8) For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

As Syria and Israel threatened to attack Judah, Ahaz refused to ask the LORD for a sign, so Isaiah declared that a virgin would conceive and bear a son called Immanuel. Isaiah also prophesied that before the child could distinguish good from evil, the lands of the two threatening kings would be forsaken.

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