2 Nephi 17:6 - 17:10

2 Nephi 17:6 Let us go up against Judah and vex it, and let us make a breach therein for us, and set a king in the midst of it, yea, the son of Tabeal.

For they are planning to attached Judah. They want to conquer it and place their own king in place named Tabeal.

2 Nephi 17:7 Thus saith the Lord God: It shall not stand, neither shall it come to pass.

The Lord has said that will not be allow by Him to take place.

2 Nephi 17:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus, Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken that it be not a people.

In 65 years the northern kingdom itself will be destroyed by Syria and the people be lead away to other parts of the world.

2 Nephi 17:9 And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah’s son. If ye will not believe surely ye shall not be established.

Ahaz must believe this or they will fall to the same fate.

2 Nephi 17:10 Moreover, the Lord spake again unto Ahaz, saying:

The Lord says to Ahaz the following.