{"id":65135,"date":"2019-11-03T22:49:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=65135"},"modified":"2023-05-28T18:43:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-28T15:43:24","slug":"the-syro-ephraimite-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-syro-ephraimite-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The Syro-Ephraimite War"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[423,434],"acf":{"old_id":"65135","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":36147,"related_cahpter":"342","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Isaiah supports Ahaz in his capitulation, and prophecies that the \u201cspoils will be hastened\u2026\u201d","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Isaiah 7 and 8 are set against the background of one of the many local skirmishes that must have taken place in the area of Israel in biblical times \u2013 most of which are unknown to us. This war of 734 BCE, known to modern historians as the Syro-Ephraimite War, was the result of the Arameans and the Northern Israelites allying together to attack Jerusalem, where Ahaz was the king. According to 2 Kings 16:5, the Arameans and Israelites got as far as laying siege to Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal seems to have been geo-political: Aram and Northern Israel wanted to fight against the ascendant Assyrians. They needed all the regional help they could get, but Ahaz was not cooperating, and was leaning towards submitting to Assyria. The campaign failed, not through any miracle, but through political machinations. Ahaz sent an urgent message to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria: \u201cI am your servant and your son; come and deliver me from the hands of the king of Aram and from the hands of the king of Israel, who are attacking me\u201d (2 Kings 16:7). And Tiglath-Pileser responded, not so much to the plea of a pitiful king, as much as to what accompanied it: \u201cAhaz took the gold and silver that were on hand in the House of the Lord and in the treasuries of the royal palace and sent them as a gift to the king of Assyria.\u201d Tiglath-Pileser actually conquered Damascus, the Aramean capital, and razed it to the ground, bringing thousands of years of urban history to an end there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These are the events foretold at the beginning of our chapter: Isaiah reports another symbolic birth here (in addition to the child of the <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018almah<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the previous chapter): his wife bore a son, and God told him to name the child Maher-Shalal-\u1e24ash-Baz. This name consists of two synonymous clauses, both meaning \u201chasten the spoils\u201d (both <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">maher<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u1e25ash<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mean \u201chasten\u201d; both <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shalal<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">baz<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mean \u201cspoils\u201d). This is then explained: \u201cFor before the boy learns to call \u2018Father\u2019 and \u2018Mother,\u2019 the wealth of Damascus and the spoils of Samaria, and the delights of Rezin and of the son of Remaliah, shall be carried off before the king of Assyria.\u201d And so it was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>image:\u00a0 bibleresearchtoday.com<\/p>\n","image":{"ID":65136,"id":65136,"title":"is8-syro-ephraimitic-war","filename":"is8-syro-ephraimitic-war.png","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is8-syro-ephraimitic-war.png","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/the-syro-ephraimite-war\/is8-syro-ephraimitic-war\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is8-syro-ephraimitic-war","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":65135,"date":"2019-11-03 20:49:41","modified":"2019-11-03 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