2Ki 16:5-7, Isa 7:1-9, 17 | ESV | STEP | Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah , king of Israel , came up to wage war on Jerusalem , and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.

v[See ver. 4 above]

2 Kings 16:5-7

5 ^aThen Rezin king of Syria and ^bPekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz ^cbut could not conquer him. 6 At that time Rezin the king of Syria recovered ^dElath for Syria and drove the men of Judah from ^eElath, and the Edomites came to Elath, where they dwell to this day. 7 ^fSo Ahaz sent messengers to ^gTiglath-pileser king of Assyria, saying, “I am your servant and your son. Come up and rescue me from the hand of the king of Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel, who are attacking me.”

Isaiah 7:1-9

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz

1 In the days of ^hAhaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, ⁱRezin the king of Syria and ^jPekah 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. 2 When the house of David was told, ^k“Syria is in league with ^{▼▼Hebrew Syria has rested upon} ^mEphraim,” the heart of Ahaz ^{▼▼Hebrew his heart} and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.

3 And the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and ^oShear-jashub ^{▼▼ Shear-jashub means A remnant shall return} your son, at the end of ^qthe conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer’s Field. 4 And say to him, ^r‘Be careful, ^sbe quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two ^tsmoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and ^uthe son of Remaliah. 5 Because Syria, with Ephraim and ^vthe son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying, 6 “Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it ^{▼▼Hebrew let us split it open} for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,” 7 thus says the Lord God:

^x“‘It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
8 For the head of Syria is ^yDamascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is ^zthe son of Remaliah.
^aaIf you ^{▼▼The Hebrew for you is plural in verses 9, 13, 14} are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.’”

Isaiah 7:17

17 ^acThe Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father’s house such days as have not come since the day that ^adEphraim departed from Judah—the king of Assyria!”