Isaiah 7:1-3

Common English Bible

Reassurance to King Ahaz

7 In the days of Ahaz (Jotham’s son and grandson of Judah’s King Uzziah), Aram’s King Rezin and Israel’s King Pekah (Remaliah’s son) came up to attack Jerusalem, but they couldn’t overpower it.

² When the house of David was told that Aram had become allies with Ephraim, their hearts and the hearts of their people shook as the trees of a forest shake when there is a wind. ³ But the Lord said to Isaiah, “Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub,^[a] at the end of the channel of the Upper Pool, by the road to the field where laundry is washed,