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((short description|Verse in the seventh chapter of the Book of Isaiah))
'''Isaiah 7:14''' is a [[Chapters and verses of the Bible|verse]] in [[Isaiah 7|the seventh chapter]] of the [[Book of Isaiah]] in which the [[Isaiah|prophet Isaiah]], addressing king [[Ahaz]] [[Kingdom of Judah|of Judah]], promises that God will destroy the king's enemies before a child born to an ''[[almah]]'' is weaned. The Hebrew word ((Script/Hebrew|עַלְמָה)) ''‘almāh'' refers to a "young woman of childbearing age", but it was translated in the [[Koine Greek]] [[Septuagint]] as ((lang|grc|παρθένος)) ''parthenos'', meaning virgin, and was subsequently picked up by the gospel of [[Gospel of Matthew|Matthew]] and used as a messianic prophecy of the [[Virgin birth of Jesus]].((sfn|Sweeney|1996|p=161)) Isaiah 7:14 continues to be one of the most controversial Bible verses.((sfn|Saldarini|2001|p=1007))

==Isaiah's prophesy to Ahaz==
===Context: Isaiah 7:1-25===
The Book of Isaiah was assembled over several centuries, beginning in the 8th century BCE.((sfn|Coogan|2007|p=974)) Chapters 1-39 refer mostly to events of the 8th century,((sfn|Coogan|2007|p=974)) but Isaiah 7:1-25 are the product of a 7th century Josianic redaction (i.e., an editing in the reign of [[King Josiah]], c. 640–609 BCE).((sfn|Sweeney|1996|p=159)) They present the 8th century [[King Ahaz]] (reigned c. 732–716 BC) as a faithless monarch who rejects God's promise of protection for his dynasty and city, but the purpose of the original 8th century narrative was to dissuade Ahaz' son, [[Hezekiah]], from entering into alliance with other kingdoms to oppose the [[Assyrian Empire]], the regional hegemon of the day.((sfn|Sweeney|1996|p=159))

===The oracle: Isaiah 7:1-10===
Isaiah 7:1((ndash))8:15 deals with the prophet Isaiah's attempt to persuade King [[Ahaz]] not to join the kings of Israel (also called Ephraim) and Syria ([[Aram-Damascus]]) in their rebellion against their Assyrian overlord.((sfn|Coogan|2007|p=974)) Isaiah 7:1-8 make up a prologue explaining that Israel and Syria have laid siege to Jerusalem in an effort to replace him with a non-Davidic king who will join them.((sfn|Coogan|2007|p=974)) 

::When Ahaz ... was king of Judah, [[Rezin]], king of Syria, and [[Pekah]] ... king of Israel, marched on Jerusalem, they were unable to prevail against it. When the House of David was told that Syria had allied itself with Ephraim, their hearts and the hearts of their people trembled ... But the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shearjashub your son, ... and say to him, 'Be firm and keep calm ...'((sfn|Childs|2001|p=60)) In the face of the threat God announces to Ahaz: 'It will not succeed, it will not happen.'((sfn|Childs|2001|p=64)) 

===God's sign: Isaiah 7:11-16===
Having delivered God's message Isaiah tells Ahaz to ask for a sign to confirm that it is a true prophecy, meaning that Ahaz is being called upon to affirm the divine covenant made with the house of David and threatened by the coalition of enemy kings, but Ahaz refuses, and Isaiah replies that he will have a sign whether he asks for it or not:((sfn|Childs|2001|p=64-65))

<!-- NOTE:  PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS ACCURATELY QUOTED TRANSLATION FROM BREVARD CHILDS (2001) pp. 60–61 -->
::7:11 ((Script/Hebrew|יא  שְׁאַל-לְךָ אוֹת, מֵעִם יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ; הַעְמֵק שְׁאָלָה, אוֹ הַגְבֵּהַּ לְמָעְלָה.))
::::"Ask a sign from the Lord your God, from lowest [[Sheol]] or from highest heaven."
::7:12 ((Script/Hebrew|יב  וַיֹּאמֶר, אָחָז:  לֹא-אֶשְׁאַל וְלֹא-אֲנַסֶּה, אֶת-יְהוָה.))
::::But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not test the Lord."
::7:13 ((Script/Hebrew|יג  וַיֹּאמֶר, שִׁמְעוּ-נָא בֵּית דָּוִד:  הַמְעַט מִכֶּם הַלְאוֹת אֲנָשִׁים, כִּי תַלְאוּ גַּם אֶת-אֱלֹהָי.  ))
::::Then he retorted: "Listen, house of David! Is it not enough to try the patience of men? Will you also try the patience of my God?
::7:14 ((Script/Hebrew|יד  לָכֵן יִתֵּן אֲדֹנָי הוּא, לָכֶם--אוֹת:  הִנֵּה הָעַלְמָה, הָרָה וְיֹלֶדֶת בֵּן, וְקָרָאת שְׁמוֹ, עִמָּנוּ אֵל.))
::::therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign: the maiden is with child and she will bear a son, and will call his name Immanuel.
::7:15 ((Script/Hebrew|טו  חֶמְאָה וּדְבַשׁ, יֹאכֵל--לְדַעְתּוֹ מָאוֹס בָּרָע, וּבָחוֹר בַּטּוֹב.))
::::By the time he learns to reject the bad and choose the good, he will be eating curds and honey.
::7:16 ((Script/Hebrew|טז  כִּי בְּטֶרֶם יֵדַע הַנַּעַר, מָאֹס בָּרָע--וּבָחֹר בַּטּוֹב:  תֵּעָזֵב הָאֲדָמָה אֲשֶׁר אַתָּה קָץ, מִפְּנֵי שְׁנֵי מְלָכֶיהָ.))
::::For before the child knows to reject the bad and choose the good, desolation will come upon the land of the two kings before whom you now cower."((sfn|Childs|2001|p=60-61))
<!-- NOTE:  PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS ACCURATELY QUOTED TRANSLATION FROM BREVARD CHILDS (2001) pp. 60–61 -->

A sign, in this context, means a special event which confirms the prophet's words.((sfn|Childs|2001|p=65)) Ahaz's sign is to be the birth of a son to an ''[[almah]]'', who will name him Immanuel, "God is with us"; the significance of the sign is not the identity of the child or his mother (scholars agree that "almah" refers to a woman of childbearing age and has nothing to do with virginity) but the meaning of his name ("God is with us") and the role it plays in identifying the length of time before God will destroy the Ephraimite-Syrian coalition (before the child learns right from wrong).((sfn|Sweeney|1996|p=162))

===Aftermath: Isaiah 7:17-25===
Ahaz turned to Assyria to fend off the threat from Israel and Syria, but the price he paid was to become an Assyrian vassal.((sfn|Coogan|2007|p=974)) His son and successor Hezekiah (ruled c. 715-686) rebelled, but the Assyrians devastated his kingdom and put Jerusalem under siege, and Hezekiah was able to save himself only by paying [[tribute]].((sfn|Coogan|2007|p=975))
A century later, in the time of King Josiah, the prophecy of Isaiah was revised to present Ahaz as a faithless king who rejected God's promise of protection, with the result that God brought Assyria to devastate the land until a new and faithful king (presumably Josiah) would arise to restore peace.((sfn|Sweeney|1996|p=159)) The added prophesy, describing the devastation that would come upon Judah at some unspecified future date (future, that is, from the perspective of Isaiah and Ahaz) when God would call up Assyria, is given in verses 7:17–25: "In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines ... will be turned over to thorns and briars".((sfn|Childs|2001|p=61))

==Gospel of Matthew==
===Matthew's use of Isaiah===
The [[Gospel of Matthew]] presents Jesus's ministry as largely the fulfilment of prophecies from Isaiah, but in the time of Jesus the Israelite Jews no longer spoke [[Biblical Hebrew|Hebrew]], and Isaiah had to be translated into [[Koine Greek|Greek]] and [[Aramaic]], the two commonly used languages.((sfn|Barker|2001|p=490)) The Greek translation, the [[Septuagint]], translated the word ''almah'', meaning a young woman of childbearing age who had not yet given birth, as ''parthenos'' in the Greek, which means ''virgin''.((sfn|Saldarini|2001|p=1007)) This gave the author of Matthew the opportunity to interpret Jesus as the fulfilment of prophecy: he makes Jesus Immanuel, ''God is with us'' ([[Matthew 1:23]]), the divine representative on earth, and underlines Jesus' status as "[[Son of God]]" by asserting that Joseph did not have sexual intercourse with Mary before she gave birth ([[Matthew 1:25]]).((sfn|Saldarini|2001|p=1007))

===Revised Standard Version===
When the [[Revised Standard Version]] translators rendered "almah" as "young woman" in 1952 it immediately [[Revised Standard Version#Isaiah 7:14 dispute and impact|became a center of controversy]] for conservative Christians, who believed that this passage predicted the [[virgin birth of Jesus]]. The RSV quickly replaced the KJV in many churches across America, but [[Christian fundamentalism|fundamentalist American Christians]] argued that nowhere in the Old Testament was an ''almah'' anything other than a young unmarried girl, and one pastor [[Book burning|publicly burned a copy]] of the RSV.((sfn|Metzger|2001|p=120)) Isaiah 7:14 became a [[wikt:litmus test|litmus test]] of orthodoxy among conservatives,((sfn|Rhodes|2009|p=80-82)) but most modern Bible translations use "young woman".((sfn|Moyise|2013|p=85))

==Uses==
===Music===
The [[King James Version]] of this verse is cited as texts in the English-language [[oratorio]] "[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]]" by [[George Frideric Handel]] (HWV 56).<ref name="Block 2001">
((cite journal
| last = Block
| first = Daniel I.
| author-link = Daniel I. Block
| year = 2001
| title = Handel's Messiah: Biblical and Theological Perspectives
| journal = [[Didaskalia (journal)|Didaskalia]]
| volume = 12
| number = 2
| url = http://www.sbts.edu/documents/icw/messiah.pdf
| access-date = 19 July 2011
))
</ref>

==See also==
* [[Jesus and Messianic prophecy]]
* [[Maher-shalal-hash-baz]]
* [[Matthew 1:23]]
* [[Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament]]
* [[Pele-joez-el-gibbor-abi-ad-sar-shalom]]

==References==
((Reflist|colwidth=30em))

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| title            = Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible
| publisher        = Eerdmans
| year             = 2001
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((Book of Isaiah))

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