Isaiah s message to king ahaz biography

Have you ever thought you were so familiar with something, only to find out later you’d been overlooking some important details? This happens to me with songs, books, and movies. inom hear, read, or see them so many times, only to be amazed when, out of the blue, inom notice something in them I didn’t see before. Sometimes this happens to us with familiar Bible passages too.

Here’s the familiar: Jesus was born of a virgin, and Isaiah 7:14 prophesied about it. Nothing shocking yet. But let’s look at the details surrounding Isaiah’s statement about the virgin birth.

King Ahaz of Judah was having a bad day. Ephraim and Syria were attacking Jerusalem and ansträngande to overthrow the king. So, God sends Isaiah to King Ahaz to tell him these attackers won’t be successful but will be destroyed. Then God tells Ahaz to ask for a sign, but Ahaz refuses. God gives him one anyway. Here it is: “Behold, a virgin will be with child and bära a son, and

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Is the sign to Ahaz In Isaiah 7 about Jesus or someone else?

Bible Question:

I am reading Isaiah chapters 7 and 8. I am intrigued with Isaiah 7:14-17 in light of 8:6-10. In the 7:14 passage, it seems unmistakably to be a reference to Jesus, born of the virgin. But verses 15-16 seem to call that into question. Also, the passage in chapter 8 seems to equate Immanuel with the nation of Israel. Although the sign given to Ahaz by the Lord is described in chapter 7, a virgin birth would not seem very relevant to Ahaz, while the defeat of nations by Israel (Immanuel) would be significant for Ahaz. The intriguing part for me is the injection of the last half of Isaiah 7:14 predicting the virgin birth into the rest of Isaiah's prophesy. It is like the virgin birth is dropped into this passage from out of nowhere. It cautions me to look for other out-of-nowhere passages like this that may have end-time significance. What are your thoughts?

Bible Answer:

Isaiah 7:10-12 states that the Lo

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Isaiah 7

Good News Translation

A Message for King Ahaz

7 ^(A)When King Ahaz, the son of Jotham and grandson of Uzziah, ruled Judah, war broke out. Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah son of Remaliah, king of Israel, attacked Jerusalem, but were unable to capture it.

² When word reached the king of Judah that the armies of Syria were already in the territory of Israel, he and all his people were so terrified that they trembled like trees shaking in the wind.

³ The Lord said to Isaiah, “Take your son Shear Jashub, and go to meet King Ahaz. You will find him on the road where the cloth makers work, at the end of the ditch that brings water from the upper pool. ⁴ Tell him to keep alert, to stay calm, and not to be frightened or disturbed. The anger of King Rezin and his Syrians and of King Pekah is no more dangerous than the smoke from two smoldering sticks of wood. ⁵ Syria, together with Israel and its king, has made a plot. ⁶ They intend to invade Judah, terri