in the midst of Jerusalem is Rezin, the king of Syria. Tabeal means ‘God is good’, but note that the translation does not say which God. It could just as easily apply to Satan as the false god, since no real name, such as Jehovah, the God of Abraham, etc. was named within the translation of Tabeal. In contrast, Remaliah means ‘protected by Jehovah’.
     A Brown-Driver-Briggs’ Hebrew Lexicon and a Smith’s Bible Dictionary are useful tools in helping to take proper names in the King James back to the original languages. Sometimes, certain chapters in the King James Version cannot be properly understood without translating the meaning of names. Once the meaning of the person’s name is known, the key to the message in that Chapter is revealed.  For example; (Bradburn is Danish for ‘wide stream’.) I used to get bored and would read over those names, but God put them there as part of His instruction. Try not to skip them.

Isa 7:7  Thus saith the Lord GOD, ‘It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

8   For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.

     Here is God’s answer to the cabal of Ephraim and Syria against Judah. God said that He’s not going to allow it! Even today Damascus is the head of Syria, so no way was Jerusalem going to be the new capital of Syria, with Ephraim as joint rulers of a combined state of Syria and Israel (since this message of Isaiah is a blueprint for a repeating history, how might this joining of Ephraim and Syria or the Arab Nations be applied today? Are the western nations working with Arafat, or; since his death, some other leader against Israel?).
     Instead of this alliance of Ephraim with Syria, God promised that Ephraim, or the ‘house of Israel’, 65 years later, which at the time of this verse, being around 631 B.C., would no longer be together as a people. In other words, the ‘house of Israel’ would no longer exist as a kingdom in the land of Israel. That did happen around 567 B.C. as recorded in II Kings 17. All of Ephraim, representing the ten northern tribes of Israel, were carried out of the land of Israel captive by Assyria.
    It is not recorded in God’s Word that Ephraim returned to the land of Israel, but it is safe to assume that some did stay with Judah, moving to Jerusalem, and the majority of the ten tribes were removed from the Promised Land. Don’t confuse this with the removing of the ‘house of Judah’ in the Babylonian captivity. The Assyrian captivity is not the Babylonian captivity of Judah they are two very separate incidents. This Ephraim, or ‘ten tribes’, would leave the Assyrian captivity, travel over the Caucasus Mountains, become known as Caucasians, and spread out across Europe and the Americas, forming the modern Christian nations of today. Ephraim has lost its’ identity, but God has not lost them. He knows exactly where He scattered them;

 

Hosea: Idolatry,1: 4 2 :22-23, 3:5,4:6, 6:2, 9;13,11:8 11:11, 11:12,13:7-8, 14:7-9.

Hosea 1:4, And the Lord said unto him, “Call his name Jezreel.”

Jezreel is a homonym, having two meanings: (1) May God scatter. (Jer 31:10) (2) May God sow (Zech 10:9) These bind up the two prophetic announcements. Jezreel, the fruitful field, had been defiled with blood (2 Kings 9. 16, 25, 33; 10. 11, 14), And Israel shall be scattered, and sown among the nations; but when God’s counsel’s are ripe, Israel shall be resown in their own land. See 2:22-23.

 

This is not the Jewish ‘Diaspora’, or dispersion, for that applied to Judah only. Those of the northern ten tribes, Ephraim being the largest, are not Jewish, even the majority of the people in the modern nation of Israel today, are made up of foreigners, i.e., non-Israelite blood; and the tribes that returned to Jerusalem after the Babylonian captivity, are mainly of Judah, Benjamin, and Levite, although not all from those tribes returned, as recorded in the Books of..

 

 Ezra: = 42,360 Judah, Benjamin, and Levite; 5:12-13, 5:16, 7:13, 7:28, 8:2, 8:22, 8:35.