Isaiah

How to Read Isaiah 13-23

A Study of Isaiah 19-20

"the oracle concerning Egypt"

Historicism

Presentism

Hezekiah: 726-697

697 + 15 years = 712

Date: Around 712b.c.

- 20:1 "In the year that the commander came to Ashdod, when sargon the king of Assyria sent him and he fought against Ashdod and captured it

Joel Rosenberg - Video Blog

"What Does the Bible Say About the Future of Egypt"

February 4, 2011

Surrounding nations

Audience: Judah

Readers of Scritpure

How do you interpret 19-20 then?

http://www.joshuafund.net/index.php/media/the_joshua_fund_blog/what_does_bible_prophecy_say_about_the_future_of_egypt/

Isaiah's Perspective

Joel Rosenberg's Perspective

Possible fulfillments of 19:1-15

H.A. Ironside - "history records the rise of a cruel and tyranncial leader known as Psammetichus...He is generally considered to be the "cruel lord" refreed to in verse 4"

J. Alec Motyer - "The fulfillment of this prediction could have been Piankhi (715 BC), Sargon's conquest (20:1-6), or Sennacherib, or the invasion of Egypt by Esarhaddon (680), Ashurbanipal (668) or Artaxerxes III Ochus (343)."

John A. Martin - "Now they would be overtaken by "a cruel master and a fierce king,...This Assyiran king was Esahhaddon...in 671 BC"

Assyrain Kings of Hezekiah's Time and After

Sargon III....................722-705 BC

Sennacharib................705-681 BC

Esarhaddon.................681-668 BC

Ashurbanipal..............668-626 BC

Fulfillment of 19:6-25

Egypt fearing God and Judah,

five cities speaking the language of Canaan,

an altar to the Lord, and a pillar near the border,

a highway from Egypt to Assyria

The Correct Perspective

How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Page 182

Assyria - 14:24-28

Damascus - 17:1-14

Tyre 23:1-18

Philistia - 14:29-32

Babylon - 13:1-14:23, 21:1-10

Moab - 15:1-16:14

Edom 21:11-12

Egypt 19:1- 20:6

Arabia 21:13-17

Ethiopia - 18:1-7, 20:1-6

Isaiah 19-20

Three sections of 19-20

John Oswalt, NIV Application Commentary: Isaiah

1. The failure of Egypt's strength 19:1-15

2. Egypt's conversion and worhsip of God 19:16-25

3. A sign of God's Word 20:1-6

Two important questions to ask:

1. When was the text written/spoken?

2. Who was/is the intended audience?

Two views of interpretation:

1. Presentism

-Interpreting historical texts through the current cultural context and values

2. Historicism

-Interpreting historical texts through the context they were created in