Both George D. Smith and Avraham Gileadi have taken this as a prophecy of the birth of Hezekiah, not Jesus (George D. Smith, "Isaiah Updated," in The Word of God: Essays on Mormon Scripture, ed. Dan Vogel [Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1990], 115-9; Avraham Gileadi, "A Holistic Structure of the Book of Isaiah," [Ph.D. diss., Brigham Young University, 1981], 37). This is impossible. Ahaz reigned sixteen years (2 Kings 16:2; compare 2 Chronicles 28:1) to be succeeded by his son Hezekiah who began ruling at the age of twenty-five (2 Kings 18:1-2; compare 2 Chronicles 29:1). The date of the prophecy to "the days of Ahaz ... king ofJudah" (Isaiah 7:1) presents a major chronological problem for this hypothesis. Even though Pekah was in the last three years of his reign when Ahaz took over the Judean kingdom (see 2 Kings 15:27; 16:1), Hezekiah would have been somewhere between nine and twelve years old; it would have been too late for Isaiah to have prophesied his birth or when he would start talking.