After providing brief review and further discussion of Isaiah's commissioning, we begin studying the crises in King Ahaz's day surrounding a new Aramean-Israelite coalition and a resurgent Assyrian Empire. This prompts God to send Isaiah along with his son Shear-Jashub ("a remnant will return") to exhort King Ahaz and then to pronounce the sign of "Immanuel" ("God with us") in spite of Ahaz and the Davidic household's unbelief.