6. Let us go up against Judah, and trouble it, and let us make a break in its wall for us, and set a king in the midst of it, even the son of Tabeal:
7. Thus says the Lord GOD,
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, so that it will not be a people.
9. And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If you will not believe, surely you shall not be established.
10. Moreover the LORD spoke again unto Ahaz, saying,
11. Ask a sign of the LORD your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
12. But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I test the LORD.