Isaiah 8:10

Take counsel together. God is able to bring to nought all the counsels of evil men who set themselves to thwart His purpose. He did this in the days of Ahaz, and He is doing so today.

God is with us. Heb. ‘Immanu ’El, the same words transliterated in v. 8 as Immanuel. Verses 9 and 10 make clear the significance of the Immanuel message God was endeavoring to impress upon the hearts of His people. In the end, the counsels of the Assyrians would not prevail against the people of God because of the fact that He was “with” them (see ch. 10:5-12). Isaiah earnestly preached this Immanuel message to the people of Judah, and there were no doubt many who learned to place their confidence in God. King Hezekiah, son of Ahaz, was one of these. When Sennacherib came against Judah, Hezekiah encouraged his people with these inspiring words: “Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him: with him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles” (2 Chron. 32:7, 8). Because Hezekiah trusted in the Lord, God was with him, and eventually 185,000 of Sennacherib’s host were slain in a single night by the angel of the Lord (2 Kings 19:35).