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Isaiah 7:1 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 1. 1And 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.
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Role in This Section
The narrated sign and its political setting carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,…” at Isaiah 7:1 as part of “Isaiah Calls Ahaz to Quiet Trust during the Coalition Crisis.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 7:1–9
Read Isaiah 7:1 inside Isaiah 7:1–9. The narrated sign and its political setting carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,…” at Isaiah 7:1 as part of “Isaiah Calls Ahaz to Quiet Trust during the Coalition Crisis.” The complete unit establishes: As Aram and Ephraim threaten Jerusalem, Isaiah and Shear-jashub meet Ahaz with a time-bounded promise that the coalition will fail and a warning that faithless fear cannot establish Judah.
Why It Needs Context
The narrated sign and its political setting carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah,…” at Isaiah 7:1 as part of “Isaiah Calls Ahaz to Quiet Trust during the Coalition Crisis.” Its force depends on the complete movement and outcome of Isaiah 7:1–9; the isolated line is connective rather than a complete teaching claim.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Isaiah 7:1–9 — Isaiah Calls Ahaz to Quiet Trust during the Coalition CrisisSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 7:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 7:1–9 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
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