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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 7:2 - 7:2
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is confederate with - rather, is encamped upon the territory of Ephraim [Maurer], or better, as Rezin was encamped against Jerusalem, “is supported by” [Lowth] Ephraim, whose land lay between Syria and Judah. The mention of “David” alludes, in sad contrast with the present, to the time when David made Syria subject to him (2Sa 8:6).
Ephraim - the ten tribes.
as ... trees of ... wood - a simultaneous agitation.