Verse 12
Isaiah 7:12
Bible in Basic English
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But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר אָחָ֑ז לֹא אֶשְׁאַ֥ל וְ/לֹֽא אֲנַסֶּ֖ה אֶת יְהוָֽה
English Translation
And Ahaz said, "I will not ask, nor will I test the LORD."
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rez...
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And word came to the family of David that Aram had put up its tents in Ephraim. And the king's heart...
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Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across A...
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And say to him, Take care and be quiet; have no fear, and do not let your heart be feeble, because o...
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Because Aram has made evil designs against you, saying,
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Let us go up against Judah, troubling her, and forcing our way into her, and let us put up a king in...
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This is the word of the Lord God (Elohim): This design will not come about or be effected.
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For the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin (and in sixty-five years from no...
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9
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not have...
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10
And Isaiah said again to Ahaz,
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11
Make a request to the Lord your God (Elohim) for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld...
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But Ahaz said, I will not put the Lord to the test by making such a request.
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And he said, Give ear now, O family of David: is it not enough that you are driving men to disgust?...
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14
For this cause the Lord himself will give you a sign; a young woman is now with child, and she will...
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15
Butter and honey will be his food, when he is old enough to make a decision between evil and good.
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For before the child is old enough to make a decision between evil and good, the land whose two king...
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The Lord is about to send on you, and on your people, and on your father's house, such a time of tro...
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And it will be in that day that the Lord will make a piping sound for the fly which is in the end of...
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And they will come, covering all the waste valleys, and the holes of the rocks, and the thorns, and...
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In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the...
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And it will be in that day that a man will give food to a young cow and two sheep;
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And they will give so much milk that he will be able to have butter for his food: for butter and hon...
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And it will be in that day that in every place where before there were a thousand vines valued at a...
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Men will come there with bows and arrows, because all the land will be full of blackberries and thor...
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And they will send out the oxen and the sheep on all the hills which before were worked with the spa...
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