Isaiah 7:1

King James Version (KJV)

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.

Translations

Isaiah 7:1 - Amplified Bible

IN THE days of Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but they could not conquer it.

Isaiah 7:1 - American Standard Version

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 to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 7:1 - Bible in Basic English

Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, the king of Aram, and Pekah, the son of Remaliah, the king of Israel, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but were not able to overcome it.

Isaiah 7:1 - Darby Bible

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, came up to Jerusalem to make war against it, but they were not able to fight against it.

Isaiah 7:1 - English Standard Version

In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.

Isaiah 7:1 - King James Version

Isaiah 7:1 - La Biblia de las Americas

Y aconteciò que en los dìas de Acaz, hijo de Jotam, hijo de Uzìas, rey de Judá, subiò Rezìn, rey de Aram, con Peka, hijo de Remalìas, rey de Israel, a Jerusalén para combatir contra ella, pero no pudieron tomarla.

Isaiah 7:1 - The Message

During the time that Ahaz son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and King Pekah son of Remaliah of Israel attacked Jerusalem, but the attack sputtered out. When the Davidic government learned that Aram had joined forces with Ephraim (that is, Israel), Ahaz and his people were badly shaken. They shook like trees in the wind.

Isaiah 7:1 - New American Standard Bible

Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to {wage} war against it, but could not conquer it.

Isaiah 7:1 - Nueva Biblia Latinoamericana de Hoy

Isaiah 7:1 - World English Bible

It happened 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 to Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

Isaiah 7:1 - Young's Living Translation

And it cometh to pass in the days of Ahaz, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, gone up hath Rezin king of Aram, and Pekah, son of Remaliah, king of Israel, to Jerusalem, to battle against it, and he is not able to fight against it.

Isaiah 7:1 - Additional Comments

Tell me, what are you afraid of? (Tell the class something you are afraid of, like spiders or snakes, and maybe share a personal story. Let the class toss out some ideas.)
Let me tell you a story of a guy named Ray Blankenship. One summer morning as Ray Blankenship was preparing his breakfast, he gazed out the window, and saw a small girl being swept along in the rain-flooded drainage ditch beside his Andover, Ohio, home. Blankenship knew that farther downstream, the ditch disappeared with a roar underneath a road and then emptied into the main culvert. Ray dashed out the door and raced along the ditch, trying to get ahead of the floundering child. Then he hurled himself into the deep, churning water. Blankenship surfaced and was able to grab the child's arm. They tumbled end over end. Within about three feet of the yawning culvert, Ray's free hand felt something-possibly a rock-protruding from one bank. He clung desperately, but the tremendous force of the water tried to tear him and the child away. "If I can just hang on until help comes," he thought. He did better than that. By the time fire-department rescuers arrived, Blankenship had pulled the girl to safety. Both were treated for shock. On April 12, 1989, Ray Blankenship was awarded the Coast Guard's Silver Lifesaving Medal. The award is fitting, for this selfless person was at even greater risk to himself than most people knew. Ray Blankenship can't swim.

That was an act of courage. Most likely Ray Blankenship was afraid of water, never having learned to swim, yet living so close to it. Let's take a look at fears and courage.

Read 2 Chron 28:1-11 and 2 Kings 15:36-16:5.

In the previous chapter we saw Jotham become king. He reigned for 16 years, but we see in this book practically no prophesies during his reign. Surely Isaiah was prophesying, but it was not recorded. So now, Jotham's son Ahaz has become king.
Ahaz became king at 22 years old, and was a wicked king. He reigned for 16 years (2 Kings 16:2).
At the end of the reign of Jotham, the Lord began to send against Judah Rezin (king of Syria) and Pekah (king of Israel) (2 Kings 15:37). But now, in the second or third year of the reign of Ahaz, encouraged by their former successes, they entered into an alliance against Judah. Ahaz began his reign with idolatry, so God delivered him into the hand of the king of Syria and of the king of Israel, and they defeated him with a great slaughter (2 Chr 28:5). Fresh with this victory, they went up towards Jerusalem, the royal city, to war against it, to besiege it, and to conquer it - but it proved too strong for them. Note, The sin of a land brings foreign invasions upon it and betrays the most advantageous posts and passes to the enemy; and God sometimes makes one wicked nation a scourge to another; but judgment, ordinarily, begins at the house of God.

The nation of Judah was threatened by her neighbors to the north, Syria (or Aram), and the northern kingdom of Israel, let by their king Pekah. (After Pekah died the first year of the reign of Ahaz, and Israel would only have one more king, Hoshea, for 9 years, before they fell to Assyria.) These 2 countries had joined forces against Assyria and wanted Judah to join them. When Ahaz refused, they attacked Judah. The leaders of Syria and Israel had planned to put their own puppet king on the throne in place of Ahaz. Instead of turning in faith to God for deliverance, Ahaz turned to Judah's enemy, Assyria.

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