38–Gentiles Helping Israel Back Home

This chapter, which is quite short as it only encompasses seven verses. It deals with events which, have uncertain fulfillment in Isaiah's time or thereafter and therefore, must be yet future to us today. The "burden of Damascus," still appears to be the general context of this chapter and no other "burden" starts until chapter nineteen. Previously we saw Damascus (Syria) made an alliance with the ten Northern Kingdom to attack the Southern Kingdom of Judah. In the past these were the ten tribes, headed by Ephraim, and frequently referred to as that tribe in a synecdoche. Now, following that, is a prophecy that should be understood in the repetition of the same sort of alliance, Jew and Gentile united in a political alliance and treaty under the future Antichrist.