Isaiah 8:7
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now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;
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Get a full Reformed explanation of this passageAssyria, centered on the upper Tigris, was the expanding empire whose armies, likened to the flooding Euphrates, would overwhelm Damascus in Aram and Samaria in Israel. Jerusalem and Mount Zion in Judah, supplied by the modest Shiloah waters, faced this judgment because of unbelief and political fear.
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Isaiah 8:7 mentions Assyria, Damascus, Euphrates, Jerusalem, Mount Zion, Samaria and Shiloah.
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