Ahaz

Family: Judah · Role: king · First appears: Isaiah 7

In Isaiah 7, Ahaz, king of Judah and son of Jotham, faced Rezin of Syria and Pekah of Israel, who took counsel against him and went to war against Jerusalem. At the upper pool, God sent Isaiah and Shearjashub to meet him and declared that the hostile plan against Judah would fail: “It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.”

God commanded Ahaz to ask for a sign, but Ahaz refused, saying, “I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.” God then announced through the judgment associated with Isaiah that unprecedented days would come upon Ahaz, his people, and his father’s house through Assyria.

Relationship record

Life events

• God sent Isaiah and Shearjashub to meet Ahaz and deliver reassurance.(Isaiah 7 · 📍 the upper pool)
  • With: God Isaiah Shearjashub
  • “Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;”
• God declared that the hostile plan against Judah would fail.(Isaiah 7)
  • With: God
  • “Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.”
• Ahaz refused God’s invitation to request a sign.(Isaiah 7)
  • With: God
  • “But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.”
• God announced that Assyria would bring unprecedented days upon Ahaz and his people.(Isaiah 7)
  • With: God
  • “The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.”

Isaiah 7

• parent: Jotham “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.”
• enemies with Rezin “Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,”
• enemies with Pekah “Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,”
• commander: God “Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying, Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
• judge: God “The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.”
• judge: Isaiah “The LORD shall bring upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon thy father’s house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim departed from Judah; even the king of Assyria.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Prophets. Made with Rho MD.