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Isaiah 13-23
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Isaiah's Perspective
How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth, Page 182
Isaiah 19-20
Assyria - 14:24-28
Damascus - 17:1-1
Babylon - 13:1-14:23, 21:1-10
Tyre 23:1-18
Philistia - 14:29-32
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
Three sections of 19-20
Isaiah as a sign of God's Word:
Egypt's fear of God and turning to worship Him.
The failure of Egypt's strength:
1. Egyptian gods
2. Nile River
3. Egyptian wisdom
19:1-15
"My servant Isaiah has gone naked three years as a sign and token against Egypt and Cush, so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old naked and barefoot"
Signs:
- Egyptians will worship God
- Build an altar, and a pillar along the border
- Five cities speaking the Canaanite language
- A highway from Egypt to Assyria, with Israel as a peaceful third member
20:1-6
19:16-25
Date and Audience
Historical View
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
Presentism
-14:28 "In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:"
-studying history by inserting current or contemporary views, values, ideas, etc. into the time period, person or event
Audience: Judah
Surrounding nations
Hezekiah: 726-697
697 + 15 years = 712
Possible fulfillment of 19:1-15
Readers of Scripture
H.A. Ironside - "history records the rise of a cruel and tyrannical leader known as Psammetichus...He is generally considered to be the "cruel lord" referred to in verse 4"
-the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled
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)."
http://www.joshuafund.net/index.php/media/the_joshua_fund_blog/what_does_bible_prophecy_say_about_the_future_of_egypt/
John A. Martin - "Now they would be overtaken by "a cruel master and a fierce king,...This Assyrian king was Esarhaddon...in 671 BC"
Hezekiah becomes king
726
Sargon takes Israel
Sargon invades
Judah
Hezekiah becomes ill
God heals Hezekiah
722-719
Isaiah goes naked
for 3 years
712
Sennacherib invades
Judah
705
Hezekiah's death
697
History
Isaiah
Joel Rosenberg
Isaiah
How to Read Isaiah 13-23
A Study of Isaiah 19-20
"the oracle concerning Egypt"
Assyrian Kings of Hezekiah's Time and After
Sargon III....................722-705 BC
Sennacharib................705-681 BC
Esarhaddon.................681-668 BC
Ashurbanipal..............668-626 BC