The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 7:4

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Take heed, and be quiet; or, see that thou keep quiet; i.e. "be not disturbed; do not resort to strange and extreme measures; in quietness and confidence should be your strength" (see Isaiah 30:15). The two tails of these smoking firebrands.

Rezin and Pekah are called "two tails," or "two stumps of smoking firebrands," as persons who had been dangerous, but whose power of doing harm was on the polar of departing from them. They could not now kindle a flame; they could only "smoke."

The son of Remaliah. Pekah seems to be called "Remaliah's son" in contempt (comp. Isaiah 7:5, Isaiah 7:9), Remaliah having been a man of no distinction (2 Kings 15:25).

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