The name, meaning "a remnant shall return," given by Isaiah to one of his sons, and symbolic of the conviction that God will preserve a remnant of His people to Himself (Isa 7:3). In hoping to call the faithless King Ahaz into trusting Him to bring deliverance to the nation in the dark climactic days when the Syrio-Ephraimite alliance was plotting to overthrow him, Yahweh sent Isaiah to meet Ahaz, with Shear-Jashub as a reminder that, whatever were to become of the nation, not all will perish. Ahaz, unfortunately choose to ignore Isaiah.
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