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The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. [9]A new superscription inserted here may serve to emphasize the originality of this prophecy as Isaiah's, as the subsequent words of oracle (verses 2–4) can also be found, with minor differences, in the Book of Micah.
Abraham and Lot Divided the Land (illustration from the 1897 Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us by Charles Foster) In Genesis 13:5-13, Abraham (then called Abram) and Lot separate, as a result of the quarrel among the shepherds. At the beginning of the story, Lot is described as a very wealthy man, like Abraham is after his return from Egypt.
According to the biblical story, in Genesis 15:1–4 Abram’s most important encounter is recorded when the Abrahamic God made a covenant with him. The day started with a vision where Abram expressed his concerns about being childless, thinking his estate will be inherited by Eliezer of Damascus, a servant of his. God then reminds him of his ...
Isaiah (UK: / aɪ ˈ z aɪ. ə / or US: / aɪ ˈ z eɪ. ə /; [4] [5] Hebrew: יְשַׁעְיָהוּ , Yəšaʿyāhū, "Yahweh is salvation"; [6] also known as Isaias [7] or Esaias [8] from Greek: Ἠσαΐας) was the 8th-century BC Israelite prophet after whom the Book of Isaiah is named. [9] [10] The text of the Book of Isaiah refers ...
Johann Christoph Döderlein suggested in 1775 that the book contained the works of two prophets separated by more than a century, [3] and Bernhard Duhm originated the view, held as a consensus through most of the 20th century, that the book comprises three separate collections of oracles: [4] [5] Proto-Isaiah (chapters 1–39), containing the ...
The mosaic shows the story in the biblical Book of Genesis of the parting of Abraham from his nephew, Lot, as they choose opposing paths. Abraham (on the left) with Isaac and the rest of his family, chooses the road to Canaan, as God intends him to, and Lot chooses to take his followers to Sodom. [1]
A Curious Hieroglyphic Bible is an early American children's book. Published in 1788 by Isaiah Thomas in Worcester, Massachusetts, [1] [2] it is a Bible partially in rebus form (some words replaced by pictures). It is not to be confused with a similar work of the same name published in 1784 in London by Thomas Hodgson. [3] [4]
[2] [3] The "raising up of children to Abraham from these stones" is generally seen as wordplay as in Hebrew the word for stones is abanim and children is banim. France also believes the line is a reference to Isaiah 51:1-2 which calls Abraham "the rock from which you were hewn." [4]