Isaiah 7
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
[SUP]4 [/SUP]And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
[SUP]2 [/SUP]And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
[SUP]4 [/SUP]And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
1 And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.
days of Ahaz***c. B.C. 740-726
Jotham *******c. B.C. 756-740
Uzziah******* c. B.C. 808-756
Rezin (Heb. Retsin', רְצִין, firm, perhaps prince), the name of two men.
1. (Sept. 'Ρασίν, 'Ραασσών) A king of Damascus, contemporary with Pekah in Israel, and with Jotham and Ahaz in Judaea. The policy of Rezin seems to have been to ally himself closely with the kingdom of Israel, and, thus strengthened, to carry on constant war against the kings of Judah. He attacked Jotham during the latter part of his reign
(2 Kings 15:37); but his chief war was with Ahaz, whose territories he invaded, in company with Pekah, soon after Ahaz had mounted the throne (B.C. cir. 740). The combined army laid siege to Jerusalem, where Ahaz was, but "could not prevail against it" (Isa 7:1; 2 Kings 16:5). Rezin, however, "recovered Elath to Syria" (ver. 6); that is, he conquered and held possession of the celebrated town of that name at the head of the Gulf of 'Akabah, which commanded one of the most important lines of trade in the East. Soon after this he was attacked by Tiglath-pileser II, king of Assyria, to whom Ahaz in his distress had made application. His armies were defeated by the Assyrian hosts; his city besieged and taken; his people carried away captive into Susiana; and he himself slain (ver. 9; comp. Tiglath-pileser's own inscriptions, where the defeat of Rezin and the destruction of Damascus are distinctly mentioned). This treatment was probably owing to his being regarded as a rebel, since Damascus had been taken and laid under tribute by the Assyrians some time previously
(Rawlinson, Herodotus, 1, 467).
(from McClintock and Strong Encyclopedia, in Public Domain Digitized by Josh Bond, biblesupport.com.)
Rawlinson: Herodotus 1,467
Of all the answers that had reached him, this pleased him far the best, for it seemed
incredible that a mule should ever come to be king of the Medes, and so he concluded that the
sovereignty would never depart from himself or his seed after him. Afterwards he turned his
thoughts to the alliance which he had been recommended to contract, and sought to ascertain by
inquiry which was the most powerful of the Grecian states. His inquiries pointed out to him two
states as pre-eminent above the rest. These were the Lacedaemonians and the Athenians, the
former of Doric, the latter of Ionic blood. And indeed these two nations had held from very, early
times the most distinguished place in Greece, the being a Pelasgic, the other a Hellenic people,
and the one having never quitted its original seats, while the other had been excessively
migratory; for during the reign of Deucalion, Phthiotis was the country in which the Hellenes
dwelt, but under Dorus, the son of Hellen, they moved to the tract at the base of Ossa and
Olympus, which is called Histiaeotis; forced to retire from that region by the Cadmeians, they
settled, under the name of Macedni, in the chain of Pindus. Hence they once more removed and
came to Dryopis; and from Dryopis having entered the Peloponnese in this way, they became
known as Dorians.
What the language of the Pelasgi was I cannot say with any certainty. If, however, we may form a
conjecture from the tongue spoken by the Pelasgi of the present day- those, for instance, who live
at Creston above the Tyrrhenians, who formerly dwelt in the district named Thessaliotis, and were
neighbours of the people now called the Dorians- or those again who founded Placia and Scylace
upon the Hellespont, who had previously dwelt for some time with the Athenians- or those, in
short, of any other of the cities which have dropped the name but are in fact Pelasgian; if, I say,
we are to form a conjecture from any of these, we must pronounce that the Pelasgi spoke a
barbarous language. If this were really so, and the entire Pelasgic race spoke the same tongue, the
Athenians, who were certainly Pelasgi, must have changed their language at the same time that
they passed into the Hellenic body; for it is a certain fact that the people of Creston speak a
language unlike any of their neighbours, and the same is true of the Placianians, while the
language spoken by these two people is the same; which shows that they both retain the idiom
which they brought with them into the countries where they are now settled.
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[SUP]2 [/SUP]And it was told the house of David, saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind.
And it was told the house of David (Ahaz and his household), saying, Syria is confederate with Ephraim - is encamped upon the territory of Ephraim (Maurer); or better, as Rezin was encamped against Jerusalem, 'is supported by' (Lowth) Ephraim, whose land lay between Syria and Judah. The Septuagint, Chaldaic, Syriac, and Arabic give much the same sense as the English version. Literally, 'rests upon Ephraim' [naachaah, from nuwach, akin to chaanah, to confide] The mention of "David" alludes, in sad contrast with the present, to the time when David made Syria subject to him (2 Sam 8:6).
Ephraim - the ten tribes.
And his heart was moved, and the heart of his people, as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind - a simultaneous agitation and alarm.
(from Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary in Public Domain via E-Sword)
[SUP]3 [/SUP]Then said the Lord unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field;
Shear-jashub שִׁאָר יָשׁוּב means A Remnant Will Return (Sheh or’ Yaw shoob’)
fuller's soap maker’s
[SUP]4 [/SUP]And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.
The son of Remaliah - Pekah, an usurper, having killed Pekahiah, the preceding king
(2 Kings 15:25). The Easterns express contempt by designating one, not by his own name, but by the father's, especially when the father is but little known
(1 Sam 20:27, 31).