| Country | Capital | Family | King |
| Israel / Ephraim | Samaria | Son of Remaliah | Pekah |
| Judah | Jerusalem | House of David | Ahaz |
| Aram (Syria) | Damascus | Rezin |
In the days of Ahaz ben Yotam son of Uzziyyahu king of Yehudah,
Retsin king of Aram
and Peqah ben Remalyahu king of Yisra’el
went up to Yerushalaim for a battle against it,
but they couldn’t do battle against it.
It had been told ‘David’s household’,
‘Aram has set settled like a swarm on Ephrayim’,
and his mind
and his people’s mind
shook like the trees in a forest shaking before wind.
Yahweh said to Yesha’yahu,
‘Go out, please, to meet Ahaz,
you and “A Remainder Will Go Back” your son,
at the end of the Upper Pool channel at the Washer’s Field causeway.
You’re to say to him,
“Keep watch over yourself, be calm.
Don’t be afraid; your mind is not to go soft on account
of these two stumps of smoking firewood,
because of the angry burning of Retsin and Aram
and ben Remalyahu.
Since Aram has counselled something bad against you
(with Ephrayim and ben Remalyahu), saying
‘We’ll go up against Yehudah and dismay it and break it open for ourselves
and enthrone as king within it ben Tabe’el’,
the Lord Yahweh has said this:
It won’t arise, it won’t happen.
Because the head of Aram is Dammeseq [Damascus],
and the head of Aram is Retsin.
Within yet 65 years Ephrayim will shatter from being a people.
The head of Ephrayim is Shomron [Samaria],
and the head of Shomron is ben Remalyahu.
If you don’t stand firm in trust,
indeed you won’t stand firm at all.”’
John; Goldingay, . The Bible for Everyone . SPCK. Kindle Edition.
God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.