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The End of Assyria
There is a need for and a promise of a deliverer, a saviour in chapter seven. Assyria is on the rise, and everybody knows it, and everybody's scared about it. And so these two, the kings up north, syria and israel, come send messengers down to the king of the south - they want him to join them against assyrians. But he doesn't feel like going with them cause i'd rather be on winning side. So instead they end up fighting judah instead. This whole period is called the syro ephromite war,. if you want to get technical. Syro from syria, ephromites are