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Isaiah 7:8 KJV
Isaiah · chapter 7 · verse 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.Isaiah 7:8 · King James Version
Isaiah 7:8 in context
6Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
8For 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.
9And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
10Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- threescoreshishshîymsixtyH8346 →
- DamascusDammeseqDamascus, a city of SyriaH1834 →
- EphraimʼEphrayimEphrajim, a son of JosephH669 →
- brokenchâthathproperly, to prostrateH2865 →
- SyriaʼĂrâmAram or Syria, and its inhabitantsH758 →
- RezinRᵉtsîynRetsin, the name of a Syrian and of an IsraeliteH7526 →
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The prophet Isaiah had his commission renewed in the year that king Uzziah died, Isa 6:1. Jotham his son reigned, and reigned well, sixteen years. All that time, no doubt, Isaiah prophesied as he was commanded, and yet we have not in this book any of his prophecies dated in the reign of Jotham;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9