Isaiah 1:1

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1:1 Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem ¹  that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah reigned over Judah. ² 

Isaiah 36:1

Sennacherib Invades Judah

36:1 In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, ³  King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.

Isaiah 36:4

36:4 The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence? ⁴ 

Isaiah 36:14

36:14 This is what the king says: ‘Don’t let Hezekiah mislead you, for he is not able to rescue you!

Isaiah 37:9

37:9 The king ⁵  heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia ⁶  was marching out to fight him. ⁷  He again sent ⁸  messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:

Isaiah 37:21

37:21 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Because you prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria, ⁹ 

Isaiah 38:3

38:3 “Please, Lord. Remember how I have served you ¹⁰  faithfully and with wholehearted devotion, ¹¹  and how I have carried out your will.” ¹²  Then Hezekiah wept bitterly. ¹³ 

Isaiah 39:4

39:4 Isaiah ¹⁴  asked, “What have they seen in your palace?” Hezekiah replied, “They have seen everything in my palace. I showed them everything in my treasuries.”

Isaiah 39:8

39:8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.” ¹⁵  Then he thought, ¹⁶  “For ¹⁷  there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”

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² tn Heb “The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

sn Isaiah’s prophetic career probably began in the final year of Uzziah’s reign (ca. 740 b.c., see Isa 6:1) and extended into the later years of Hezekiah’s reign, which ended in 686 b.c.

³ tn The verb that introduces this verse serves as a discourse particle and is untranslated; see note on “in the future” in 2:2.

⁴ tn Heb “What is this object of trust in which you are trusting?”

⁵ tn Heb “he”; the referent (the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁶ tn Heb “Cush” (so NASB); NIV, NCV “the Cushite king of Egypt.”

⁷ tn Heb “heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, ‘He has come out to fight with you.’”

⁸ tn The Hebrew text has, “and he heard and he sent,” but the parallel in 2 Kgs 19:9 has וַיָּשָׁב וַיִּשְׁלַח (vayyashav vayyishlakh, “and he returned and he sent”), i.e., “he again sent.”

⁹ tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:20 reads, “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense: “because.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “walked before you.” For a helpful discussion of the background and meaning of this Hebrew idiom, see M. Cogan and H. Tadmor, II Kings (AB), 254.

¹¹ tn Heb “and with a complete heart”; KJV, ASV “with a perfect heart.”

¹² tn Heb “and that which is good in your eyes I have done.”

¹³ tn Heb “wept with great weeping”; NCV “cried loudly”; TEV “began to cry bitterly.”

¹⁴ tn Heb “he”; the referent (Isaiah) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

¹⁵ tn Heb “good” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “favorable.”

¹⁶ tn Heb “and he said.” The verb אָמַר (’amar, “say”) is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself).

¹⁷ tn Or “surely”; cf. CEV “At least.”