King James Version

Isaiah 7

Isaiah in the King James Version. Each verse number opens that verse. Study, in the row above the verse, opens the Hebrew, the notes, the other translations, and the connections.

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Open 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.
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Open Isaiah 7:2

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.
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Open Isaiah 7:3

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;
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Open Isaiah 7:4

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.
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Open Isaiah 7:5

Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
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Open Isaiah 7:6

Let 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:
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Open Isaiah 7:7

Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
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Open Isaiah 7:8

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.
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Open Isaiah 7:9

And 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.
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Open Isaiah 7:10

Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
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Open Isaiah 7:11

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
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Open Isaiah 7:12

But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
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Open Isaiah 7:13

And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
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Translation Note
The Hebrew word is הָעַלְמָה, ha-almah, Strong’s H5959. Strong’s defines it as “a lass (as veiled or private)” and lists the King James renderings “damsel, maid, virgin.” The word בְּתוּלָה, H1330, is the one Strong’s defines as “a virgin (from her privacy).” The 1917 Jewish Publication Society reads “the young woman shall conceive.” The King James reads “a virgin shall conceive.” Brenton reads “a virgin shall conceive in the womb,” and the Greek is ἡ παρθένος, “the virgin.”
The Jewish Publication Society does not say “virgin.” The Septuagint does, and Matthew 1:23 quotes that Greek line of the birth of Jesus. Christians say the child is Immanuel, God with us, and that the child is God the Son.
King James Version. Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Jewish Publication Society (1917). “behold, the young woman shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.”
Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English. “behold, a virgin shall conceive in the womb, and shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Emmanuel.”
Septuagint, Brenton’s Greek (1851). ἰδοὺ ἡ παρθένος ἐν γαστρὶ λήψεται, καὶ τέξεται υἱὸν, καὶ καλέσεις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἐμμανουήλ.
Why don’t Jews believe Jesus is the Messiah? What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity?

Open Isaiah 7:14

Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Open Isaiah 7:15

Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.
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Open Isaiah 7:16

For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.
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Open Isaiah 7:17

The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.
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Open Isaiah 7:18

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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Open Isaiah 7:19

And they shall come, and shall rest all of them in the desolate valleys, and in the holes of the rocks, and upon all thorns, and upon all bushes.
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Open Isaiah 7:20

In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
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Open Isaiah 7:21

And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
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Open Isaiah 7:22

And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
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Open Isaiah 7:23

And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it shall even be for briers and thorns.
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Open Isaiah 7:24

With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.
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Open Isaiah 7:25

And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

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