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Isaiah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Isaiah, one of the Book of the Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, which is the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] In this "vision of Isaiah concerning Judah and Jerusalem", the prophet calls the nation to repentance and predicts the destruction of the first temple in the siege of Jerusalem.
The Anchor Bible Commentary Series, created under the guidance of William Foxwell Albright (1891–1971), comprises a translation and exegesis of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Intertestamental Books (the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Deuterocanon/the Protestant Apocrypha; not the books called by Catholics and Orthodox "Apocrypha", which are widely called by Protestants ...
The Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) is a twenty-nine volume set of commentaries on the Bible published by InterVarsity Press. It is a confessionally collaborative project as individual editors have included scholars from Eastern Orthodoxy , Roman Catholicism , and Protestantism as well as Jewish participation. [ 1 ]
Since the sign of Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14-17) gives an undisclosed time in the future, another sign is given to deal with the contemporary scene, in the form of a child with an ordinary birth and a name which would be a standing witness (cf. Isaiah 8:18) to the prophecy both about 'the enemy at the gate' (verse 4; cf. Isaiah 7:16) and about the next victim of the Assyrians, which is Judah itself ...
Isaiah 6 is the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. [1] It records the calling of Isaiah to be the messenger of God to the people of Israel. [2]
The six woes of Isaiah relate to those responsible for: Amalgamation of land (verses 8–10) Drunkenness and revelry (verses 11–17) Compound sinfulness, or "sin with a cart rope" (verses 18–19) Use of language to justify evil (verse 20) Self-conceit (verse 21) Corruption (verses 22–23) associated with intoxication, cf. Proverbs 31:3:
The Jews speak of one Ben Netzer, who they say was a robber, took cities, and reigned over them, and became the head of robbers; [12] and make him to be the little horn in Daniel 7:8, [13] which some implied that he was Jesus; [14] at the same time it tacitly acknowledges that Jesus of Nazareth is the "Netzer" this prophecy speaks of, but in a ...
[8] The New King James Version treats verse 1 as a continuation of chapter 3 and reformation theologian John Calvin argued that "this verse certainly ought not to have been separated from the preceding". [9] Whereas in Isaiah 3:6 the men "take hold of" a man to get a ruler, in this verse the women "take hold of" a man to get a husband. [7]