It happened in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not prevail against it. 2It was told the house of Dawud, saying, “Syria is allied with Ephraim.” The heart of Ahaz trembled, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the forest tremble with the wind. 3Then YAHWEH said to Shaya, “Go forth now to meet Ahaz, you, and Shearjashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller’s field; 4and say to him, ‘Take heed, and be quiet; do not be afraid, neither let your heart be faint, because of these two tails of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. 5Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have purposed evil against you, saying, 6“Let us go up against Judah, and vex it, and let us make a breach in it for ourselves, and set up a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeel;” 7thus says the Lord YAHWEH, “It shall not stand, neither shall it happen.” 8For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin; and within sixty-five years Ephraim shall be broken in pieces, so that it shall not be a people: 9and the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only the son of Remaliah. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.'”
10YAHWEH spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11“Ask a sign of YAHWEH your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.” 12But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, neither will I test YAHWEH.” 13He said, “Listen now, house of Dawud: Is it a small thing for you to weary men, that you will weary my God also? 14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: behold, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son, and will call his Name IMMANUEL.1 15Butter and honey shall he eat, when he knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good. 16For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken. 17YAHWEH will bring on you, and on your people, and on your father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah even the king of Assyria. 18It shall happen in that day, that YAHWEH will hiss for the fly that is in the distant branches of the river of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria. 19They shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the clefts of the rocks, and on all thorn-hedges, and on all pastures. 20In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. 21It shall happen in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep; 22and it shall happen, that because of the abundance of milk which they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall everyone eat that is left in the midst of the land. 23It shall happen in that day, that every place, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silver shekels, shall be for briers and thorns. 24With arrows and with bow shall one come there, because all the land shall be briers and thorns. 25All the hills that were dug with the hoe, you shall not come there for fear of briers and thorns; but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of sheep.”
- 7:14 Quoted in the Injil, Matthew 1:23, and fulfilled in the virgin birth of ‘ISA Ibn Maryam. An Angel of the Lord spoke to a godly man named Yusuf in Matthew 1:20-25 as follows: But when he [Yusuf] thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Yusuf son of Dawud, do not be afraid to take to yourself Maryam, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit. She shall bring forth a son. You shall call his name ‘ISA, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.” Now all this has happened, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Behold, the virgin will be with child, and will give birth to a son. They will call his name IMMANUEL,” which when translated is, “GOD WITH US.” Yusuf arose from his sleep, and did as the angel of the Lord commanded him, and took his wife to himself; and did not know her sexually until she had brought forth her firstborn son. He named him ‘ISA. ↩︎