Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 7:2

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 shaken with the wind.

Ahaz, and his Royal Relations and Courtiers. He calls them the house of David, to intimate that the following comfortable Message was sent to Ahaz, not for his own sake, but onely for the sake of his worthy Progenitor, David, to whom God had promised an everlasting Kingdom.

The Kingdom of the Ten Tribes, commonly called Ephraim, as Isa. 28. 1. Hos. 12. 1. because that was far the most numerous and potent of all of them.

With excessive fear, arising partly from the conscience of their own Guilt, whereby they had put themselves out of God's Protection; and partly from the consideration of the great Strength and Power of his Enemies, who having prevailed against him severally, 2 Chron. 28. 5, 8. and having now united their Forces, he, having no Faith in God, nor Confidence to desire or expect his Help, concluded his Case desperate and deplorable.

Marginal references: Heb. resteth [illegible: 1+ letters]n Ephraim.