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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2KI.16.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">In the seventeenth year of Pekah son of Remaliah, Ahaz son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2KI.16.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2KI.16.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had driven out before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.16.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2KI.16.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2KI.16.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Then Rezin king of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem and besieged Ahaz, but they could not overpower him. </span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">7</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Sign of Immanuel</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.7.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">When Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, was king of Judah, King Rezin of Aram and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel marched up to fight against Jerusalem, but they could not overpower it.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.7.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.7.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Now the house of David was told, &#8220;Aram has allied itself with</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:2 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">has set up camp in</span></span></span><span class="content"> Ephraim&#8221;; so the hearts of Ahaz and his people were shaken, as the trees of the forest are shaken by the wind.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.7.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.7.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to Isaiah, &#8220;Go out, you and your son Shear-Jashub,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:3 </span><span class="fq">Shear-Jashub </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">a remnant will return.</span></span></span><span class="content"> to meet Ahaz at the end of the aqueduct of the Upper Pool, on the road to the Launderer&#8217;s Field. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.7.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Say to him, &#8216;Be careful, keep calm and don&#8217;t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood&#8212;because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.7.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Aram, Ephraim and Remaliah&#8217;s son have plotted your ruin, saying, </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.7.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Let us invade Judah; let us tear it apart and divide it among ourselves, and make the son of Tabeel king over it.&#8221; </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Yet this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">&#8220;&#8198;&#8216;It will not take place,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"><span class="content">it will not happen,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.7.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">for the head of Aram is Damascus,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">and the head of Damascus is only Rezin.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">Within sixty-five years</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"><span class="content">Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.7.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">The head of Ephraim is Samaria,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah&#8217;s son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">If you do not stand firm in your faith,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"><span class="content">you will not stand at all.&#8217;&#8198;&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.7.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.7.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Again the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to Ahaz, </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;Ask the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God for a sign, whether in the deepest depths or in the highest heights.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.7.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">But Ahaz said, &#8220;I will not ask; I will not put the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> to the test.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.7.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.7.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Then Isaiah said, &#8220;Hear now, you house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of humans? Will you try the patience of my God also? </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.7.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">Therefore the Lord himself will give you</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">The Hebrew is plural.</span></span></span><span class="content"> a sign: The virgin</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">young woman</span></span></span><span class="content"> will conceive and give birth to a son, and</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="ft">Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls </span><span class="fqa">son, and he </span><span class="ft">or </span><span class="fqa">son, and they</span></span></span><span class="content"> will call him Immanuel.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:14 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.7.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.7.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste. </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will bring on you and on your people and on the house of your father a time unlike any since Ephraim broke away from Judah&#8212;he will bring the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Assyria, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="heading">Lord</span></span><span class="heading">&#8217;s Instrument</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.7.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.7.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In that day the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will whistle for flies from the Nile delta in Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria. </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.7.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">They will all come and settle in the steep ravines and in the crevices in the rocks, on all the thornbushes and at all the water holes. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.7.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">In that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates River&#8212;the king of Assyria&#8212;to shave your heads and private parts, and to cut off your beards also. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.7.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">In that day, a person will keep alive a young cow and two goats. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.7.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">And because of the abundance of the milk they give, there will be curds to eat. All who remain in the land will eat curds and honey. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.7.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">In that day, in every place where there were a thousand vines worth a thousand silver shekels,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">7:23 </span><span class="ft">That is, about 25 pounds or about 12 kilograms</span></span></span><span class="content"> there will be only briers and thorns. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.7.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Hunters will go there with bow and arrow, for the land will be covered with briers and thorns. </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.7.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">As for all the hills once cultivated by the hoe, you will no longer go there for fear of the briers and thorns; they will become places where cattle are turned loose and where sheep run.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">8</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Isaiah and His Children as Signs</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.8.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Take a large scroll and write on it with an ordinary pen: Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz.&#8221;</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:1 </span><span class="fq">Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">quick to the plunder, swift to the spoil</span><span class="ft">; also in verse 3.</span></span></span><span class="content"> </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.8.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">So I called in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.8.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Then I made love to the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. And the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> said to me, &#8220;Name him Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">For before the boy knows how to say &#8216;My father&#8217; or &#8216;My mother,&#8217; the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.8.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> spoke to me again:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.8.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;Because this people has rejected</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">the gently flowing waters of Shiloah</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and rejoices over Rezin</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"><span class="content">and the son of Remaliah,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.8.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">therefore the Lord is about to bring against them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the mighty floodwaters of the Euphrates&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">the king of Assyria with all his pomp.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">It will overflow all its channels,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"><span class="content">run over all its banks</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.8.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">and sweep on into Judah, swirling over it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">passing through it and reaching up to the neck.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Its outspread wings will cover the breadth of your land,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"><span class="content">Immanuel</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:8 </span><span class="fq">Immanuel </span><span class="ft">means </span><span class="fqa">God with us.</span></span></span><span class="content">!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.8.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Raise the war cry,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:9 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">Do your worst</span></span></span><span class="content"> you nations, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Listen, all you distant lands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"><span class="content">Prepare for battle, and be shattered!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.8.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Devise your strategy, but it will be thwarted;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">propose your plan, but it will not stand,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"><span class="content">for God is with us.</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">8:10 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Immanuel</span></span></span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.8.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says to me with his strong hand upon me, warning me not to follow the way of this people:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.8.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">&#8220;Do not call conspiracy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">everything this people calls a conspiracy;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">do not fear what they fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"><span class="content">and do not dread it.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.8.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">The </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to fear,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"><span class="content">he is the one you are to dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.8.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">He will be a holy place;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">for both Israel and Judah he will be</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a stone that causes people to stumble</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">and a rock that makes them fall.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">And for the people of Jerusalem he will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"><span class="content">a trap and a snare.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.8.14"></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Many of them will stumble;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will fall and be broken,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"><span class="content">they will be snared and captured.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.8.15"></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Bind up this testimony of warning</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"><span class="content">and seal up God&#8217;s instruction among my disciples.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.8.16"></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">I will wait for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">who is hiding his face from the descendants of Jacob.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"><span class="content">I will put my trust in him.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.8.17"></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.8.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">Here am I, and the children the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> has given me. We are signs and symbols in Israel from the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty, who dwells on Mount Zion.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">The Darkness Turns to Light</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.8.18"></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.8.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living? </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.8.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">Consult God&#8217;s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.8.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">Distressed and hungry, they will roam through the land; when they are famished, they will become enraged and, looking upward, will curse their king and their God. </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.8.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">Then they will look toward the earth and see only distress and darkness and fearful gloom, and they will be thrust into utter darkness.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">17</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">A Prophecy Against Damascus</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">A prophecy against Damascus:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">&#8220;See, Damascus will no longer be a city</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"><span class="content">but will become a heap of ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.17.1"></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">The cities of Aroer will be deserted</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">and left to flocks, which will lie down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"><span class="content">with no one to make them afraid.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.17.2"></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">The fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">and royal power from Damascus;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">the remnant of Aram will be</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">like the glory of the Israelites,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> Almighty.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.17.3"></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">&#8220;In that day the glory of Jacob will fade;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"><span class="content">the fat of his body will waste away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.17.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">It will be as when reapers harvest the standing grain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">gathering the grain in their arms&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">as when someone gleans heads of grain</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"><span class="content">in the Valley of Rephaim.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.17.5"></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Yet some gleanings will remain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">as when an olive tree is beaten,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">leaving two or three olives on the topmost branches,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">four or five on the fruitful boughs,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.17.6"></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">In that day people will look to their Maker</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"><span class="content">and turn their eyes to the Holy One of Israel.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.17.7"></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">They will not look to the altars,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">the work of their hands,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and they will have no regard for the Asherah poles</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class="body"><span class="fr">17:8 </span><span class="ft">That is, wooden symbols of the goddess Asherah</span></span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"><span class="content">and the incense altars their fingers have made.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.17.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">In that day their strong cities, which they left because of the Israelites, will be like places abandoned to thickets and undergrowth. And all will be desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.17.9"></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">You have forgotten God your Savior;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">you have not remembered the Rock, your fortress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">Therefore, though you set out the finest plants</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"><span class="content">and plant imported vines,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.17.10"></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">though on the day you set them out, you make them grow,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">and on the morning when you plant them, you bring them to bud,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">yet the harvest will be as nothing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"><span class="content">in the day of disease and incurable pain.</span></span></div><div class="b"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.17.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Woe to the many nations that rage&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they rage like the raging sea!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">Woe to the peoples who roar&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"><span class="content">they roar like the roaring of great waters!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.17.12"></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">when he rebukes them they flee far away,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">driven before the wind like chaff on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"><span class="content">like tumbleweed before a gale.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.17.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">In the evening, sudden terror!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">Before the morning, they are gone!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">This is the portion of those who loot us,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.17.14"><span class="content">the lot of those who plunder us.</span></span></div>
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      <div class="chapter ch28" data-usfm="2CH.28.1+2CH.28.2+2CH.28.3+2CH.28.4+2CH.28.5+2CH.28.6+2CH.28.7+2CH.28.8+2CH.28.9+2CH.28.10+2CH.28.11+2CH.28.12+2CH.28.13+2CH.28.14+2CH.28.15">
         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="2CH.28.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Ahaz was twenty years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem sixteen years. Unlike David his father, he did not do what was right in the eyes of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="2CH.28.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">He followed the ways of the kings of Israel and also made idols for worshiping the Baals. </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="2CH.28.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">He burned sacrifices in the Valley of Ben Hinnom and sacrificed his children in the fire, engaging in the detestable practices of the nations the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> had driven out before the Israelites. </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.28.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops and under every spreading tree.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="2CH.28.4"></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.28.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Therefore the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> his God delivered him into the hands of the king of Aram. The Arameans defeated him and took many of his people as prisoners and brought them to Damascus.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="2CH.28.5"><span class="content">He was also given into the hands of the king of Israel, who inflicted heavy casualties on him. </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2CH.28.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">In one day Pekah son of Remaliah killed a hundred and twenty thousand soldiers in Judah&#8212;because Judah had forsaken the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of their ancestors. </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="2CH.28.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Zikri, an Ephraimite warrior, killed Maaseiah the king&#8217;s son, Azrikam the officer in charge of the palace, and Elkanah, second to the king. </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.28.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">The men of Israel took captive from their fellow Israelites who were from Judah two hundred thousand wives, sons and daughters. They also took a great deal of plunder, which they carried back to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="2CH.28.8"></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="2CH.28.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">But a prophet of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> named Oded was there, and he went out to meet the army when it returned to Samaria. He said to them, &#8220;Because the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, the God of your ancestors, was angry with Judah, he gave them into your hand. But you have slaughtered them in a rage that reaches to heaven. </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="2CH.28.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">And now you intend to make the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem your slaves. But aren&#8217;t you also guilty of sins against the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> your God? </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.28.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now listen to me! Send back your fellow Israelites you have taken as prisoners, for the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8217;s fierce anger rests on you.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="2CH.28.11"></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="2CH.28.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">Then some of the leaders in Ephraim&#8212;Azariah son of Jehohanan, Berekiah son of Meshillemoth, Jehizkiah son of Shallum, and Amasa son of Hadlai&#8212;confronted those who were arriving from the war. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.28.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">&#8220;You must not bring those prisoners here,&#8221; they said, &#8220;or we will be guilty before the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. Do you intend to add to our sin and guilt? For our guilt is already great, and his fierce anger rests on Israel.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="2CH.28.13"></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="2CH.28.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">So the soldiers gave up the prisoners and plunder in the presence of the officials and all the assembly. </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.28.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">The men designated by name took the prisoners, and from the plunder they clothed all who were naked. They provided them with clothes and sandals, food and drink, and healing balm. All those who were weak they put on donkeys. So they took them back to their fellow Israelites at Jericho, the City of Palms, and returned to Samaria.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="2CH.28.15"></span></div>
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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.16.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">At that time, Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram by driving out the people of Judah. Edomites then moved into Elath and have lived there to this day.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="2KI.16.6"></span></div>
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