Isaiah 7:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

For before the child knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land before whose two kings you are in dread will be deserted.

Cross References

Isaiah 8:4

for before the child knows how to cry ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.”

Deuteronomy 1:39

Moreover your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, shall go in there, and to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.

Jonah 4:11

And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”

Hosea 5:9

Ephraim shall become a desolation in the day of punishment; among the tribes of Israel I declare what is sure.

Isaiah 9:11

So the Lord raises adversaries against them, and stirs up their enemies.

2 Kings 16:9

And the king of Assyria hearkened to him; the king of Assyria marched up against Damascus, and took it, carrying its people captive to Kir, and he killed Rezin.

Isaiah 8:14

And he will become a sanctuary, and a stone of offense, and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 7:15

And I will cast you out of my sight, as I cast out all your kinsmen, all the offspring of Ephraim.

Hosea 5:3

I know Ephraim, and Israel is not hid from me; for now, O Ephraim, you have played the harlot, Israel is defiled.