King James Version
Isaiah 7:6 in the King James Version says “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, even...” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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, even the son of Tabeal: vex: or, waken”
Isaiah 7:6 · KJV
And say unto him, Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be fainthearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah. neither: Heb. let not thy heart be tender
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
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, even the son of Tabeal: vex: or, waken
Thus saith the Lord GOD, It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people. that: Heb. from a people
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Let us go up”
H5927to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
“against Judah”
H3063jehudah (or judah), the name of five israelites; also of the tribe descended from the first, and of its territory
“it and let us make a breach”
H1234to cleave; generally, to rend, break, rip or open
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“of it even the son”
H1121a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or
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