Isaiah 7:9
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The head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is only Remaliah’s son. If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all.’ ”
Read Isaiah 7:9 Using Other Translations
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.
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is the son of Remaliah. If you are not firm in faith, you will not be firm at all.'"
Israel is no stronger than its capital, Samaria, and Samaria is no stronger than its king, Pekah son of Remaliah. Unless your faith is firm, I cannot make you stand firm.”
What does Isaiah 7:9 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Isaiah 7:9
or remain F7; that is, in their own land, but should be carried captive, as they were after a time; or it is, "because ye are not true and firm"; in the faith of God, as Kimchi interprets it; or, "because ye are not confirmed" F8; that is, by a sign; wherefore it follows:
FOOTNOTES:
F7 (wnmat al yk) "non permanebitis", V. L. Cocceius.
F8 "Quod non confirmamini", Junius & Tremellius.
And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria
. Samaria was the metropolis or chief city of Ephraim, or the ten
tribes of Israel: and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's
son;
Pekah, son of Remaliah, was king of Samaria, as of all Israel.
The sense is, that, until the sixty five years were ended, there
should be no enlargement of the kingdom of Israel; Judah should
not be added to it; Samaria should continue, and not Jerusalem be
the metropolis of it; and Pekah, during his life, should be king
of Israel, but not of Judah. If ye will not
believe;
the Targum adds,
``the words of the prophet;''surely ye shall not be established,
or remain F7; that is, in their own land, but should be carried captive, as they were after a time; or it is, "because ye are not true and firm"; in the faith of God, as Kimchi interprets it; or, "because ye are not confirmed" F8; that is, by a sign; wherefore it follows:
F7 (wnmat al yk) "non permanebitis", V. L. Cocceius.
F8 "Quod non confirmamini", Junius & Tremellius.
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