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2 Nephi 17
Ephraim and Syria wage war against Judah—Christ will be born of a virgin—Compare Isaiah 7. About 559–545 B.C.
a
And
it
came
to
pass
in
the
days
of
b
Ahaz
the
son
of
c
Jotham,
the
son
of
Uzziah,
king
of
Judah,
that
d
Rezin,
king
of
Syria,
and
e
Pekah
the
son
of
Remaliah,
king
of
Israel,
went
up
toward
Jerusalem
to
war
against
it,
but
could
not
prevail
against
it.
2 And
it
was
told
the
house
of
David,
saying:
Syria
is
confederate
with
Ephraim.
And
his
heart
was
moved,
and
the
heart
of
his
people,
as
the
trees
of
the
wood
are
moved
with
the
wind.
3 Then
said
the
Lord
unto
Isaiah:
Go
forth
now
to
meet
Ahaz,
thou
and
Shearjashub
thy
son,
at
the
end
of
the
a
conduit
of
the
upper
pool
in
the
highway
of
the
fuller's
field;
4 And
say
unto
him:
Take
heed,
and
be
quiet;
fear
not,
neither
be
faint-hearted
for
the
two
tails
of
these
smoking
firebrands,
for
the
fierce
anger
of
Rezin
with
Syria,
and
of
the
son
of
Remaliah.
5 Because
Syria,
Ephraim,
and
the
son
of
Remaliah,
have
taken
evil
counsel
against
thee,
saying:
6 Let
us
go
up
against
Judah
and
vex
it,
and
let
us
make
a
breach
therein
for
us,
and
set
a
king
in
the
midst
of
it,
yea,
the
son
of
Tabeal.
7 Thus
saith
the
Lord
God:
a
It
shall
not
stand,
neither
shall
it
come
to
pass.
8 For
the
head
of
Syria
is
Damascus,
and
the
head
of
Damascus,
Rezin;
and
within
threescore
and
five
years
shall
Ephraim
be
a
broken
that
it
be
not
a
people.
9 And
the
head
of
Ephraim
is
Samaria,
and
the
head
of
Samaria
is
Remaliah's
son.
If
ye
will
a
not
believe
surely
ye
shall
not
be
established.
10 Moreover,
the
Lord
spake
again
unto
Ahaz,
saying:
11 Ask
thee
a
a
sign
of
the
Lord
thy
God;
ask
it
either
in
the
depths,
or
in
the
heights
above.
12 But
Ahaz
said:
I
will
not
ask,
neither
will
I
a
tempt
the
Lord.
13 And
he
said:
Hear
ye
now,
O
house
of
David;
is
it
a
small
thing
for
you
to
weary
men,
but
will
ye
weary
my
God
also?
14 Therefore,
the
Lord
himself
shall
give
you
a
sign—Behold,
a
a
virgin
shall
conceive,
and
shall
bear
a
son,
and
shall
call
his
name
b
Immanuel.
15 Butter
and
a
honey
shall
he
eat,
that
he
may
know
to
refuse
the
evil
and
to
choose
the
good.
16 For
a
before
the
child
shall
know
to
refuse
the
evil
and
choose
the
good,
the
land
that
thou
abhorrest
shall
be
forsaken
of
b
both
her
kings.
17 The
Lord
shall
a
bring
upon
thee,
and
upon
thy
people,
and
upon
thy
father's
house,
days
that
have
not
come
from
the
day
that
b
Ephraim
departed
from
Judah,
the
king
of
Assyria.
18 And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day
that
the
Lord
shall
hiss
for
the
fly
that
is
in
the
uttermost
part
of
Egypt,
and
for
the
bee
that
is
in
the
land
of
Assyria.
19 And
they
shall
come,
and
shall
rest
all
of
them
in
the
desolate
valleys,
and
in
the
holes
of
the
rocks,
and
upon
all
thorns,
and
upon
all
bushes.
20 In
the
same
day
shall
the
Lord
shave
with
a
a
razor
that
is
hired,
by
them
beyond
the
river,
by
the
king
of
Assyria,
the
head,
and
the
hair
of
the
feet;
and
it
shall
also
consume
the
beard.
21 And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day,
a
man
shall
nourish
a
young
cow
and
two
sheep;
22 And
it
shall
come
to
pass,
for
the
abundance
of
milk
they
shall
give
he
shall
eat
butter;
for
butter
and
honey
shall
every
one
eat
that
is
left
in
the
land.
23 And
it
shall
come
to
pass
in
that
day,
every
place
shall
be,
where
there
were
a
thousand
vines
at
a
thousand
silverlings,
which
shall
be
for
briers
and
thorns.
24 With
arrows
and
with
bows
shall
men
come
thither,
because
all
the
land
shall
become
briers
and
thorns.
25 And
all
hills
that
shall
be
digged
with
the
mattock,
there
shall
not
come
thither
the
fear
of
briers
and
thorns;
but
it
shall
be
for
the
sending
forth
of
oxen,
and
the
treading
of
lesser
cattle.
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