ISAIAH CHAPTER 7 Ahaz, afraid of Rezin and Pekah, is comforted by Isaiah Isaiah 7:1; refusing to choose a sign, Christ is promised for one, Isaiah 7:10: his judgment should come by Assyria, Isaiah 7:17. In the days of Ahaz, a most wicked king; yet no prophecies are more comfortable than those which were delivered in his time; God so ordering it, partly for the encouragement of the faithful that lived under his tyrannical and impious reign; and partly to manifest the riches and freeness of his grace, in conferring such favours upon a most worthless generation. To war against it; which they attempted before in Jotham's reign, 2 Kings 15:37, but now more seriously undertook, though without success, as is noted here, and 2 Kings 16:5.

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