“When the house of David heard
That Aram had allied itself
With Ephraim,
The heart of King Ahaz shook.
The heart of his people shook,
As the trees of the forest
Shake before the wind.”
King Ahaz had barely become king of Judah when this news that the King of Aram and Syria had joined with the King of Israel at Ephraim to come against him. Both he and his people of Judah were afraid. They were like shaking trees in a forest all shook up by the wind.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 