Isaiah 7:6-8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
6 “Let us go up against Judah, tear it apart, make it our own by force, and appoint the son of Tabeel[a] king there.”
7 Thus says the Lord God:
It shall not stand, it shall not be!(A)
8 [b]The head of Aram is Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin;
Footnotes
- 7:6 Son of Tabeel: a puppet of Jerusalem’s enemies. His appointment would interrupt the lawful succession from David.
- 7:8–9 God had chosen and made a commitment to David’s dynasty and his capital city Jerusalem, not to Rezin and his capital Damascus, nor to the son of Remaliah and his capital Samaria (2 Sm 7:12–16; Ps 2:6; 78:68–72; 132:11–18). Within sixty-five years…nation: this text occurs at the end of v. 8 in the Hebrew. Ahaz would not have been reassured by so distant a promise; the phrase is probably a later addition.
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