Immanuel

Isaiah 7:14 Ahaz was in trouble. Two larger kingdoms joined together and chose a man to put on Ahaz’s throne. Ahaz was king of Judah, and the two kingdoms were Syria and Israel. Isaiah 7 gives the name of the king of Syria as Rezin and the name of the king of Israel as Pekah. Let’s learn a little of who Ahaz was. 2 Kings 16 tells us this about Ahaz: In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah, Ahaz the son of Jotham, king of Judah, began to reign. Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And he did not do what was right in the eyes of the Lord his God, as his father David had done, but he walked in the way of the kings of Israel. He even burned his son as an offering, according to the despicable practices of the nations whom the Lord drove out before the people of Israel. And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree. ( 2 Kings 16:1-4 ESV ) Ahaz