Discovery BoxIsaiah 14:13 
Context“I will climb up to the sky.
Above the stars of El 2
I will set up my throne.
I will rule on the mountain of assembly
on the remote slopes of Zaphon. 3
Isaiah 41:18
Context41:18 I will make streams flow down the slopes
and produce springs in the middle of the valleys.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and the arid land into springs.
Isaiah 49:9
Context49:9 You will say 4 to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’
and to those who are in dark dungeons, 5 ‘Emerge.’ 6
They will graze beside the roads;
on all the slopes they will find pasture.
1 tn Heb “you, you said in your heart.”
2 sn In Canaanite mythology the stars of El were astral deities under the authority of the high god El.
3 sn Zaphon, the Canaanite version of Olympus, was the “mountain of assembly” where the gods met.
4 tn Heb “to say.” In the Hebrew text the infinitive construct is subordinated to what precedes.
5 tn Heb “in darkness” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NIV, NRSV); NLT “the prisoners of darkness.”
6 tn Heb “show yourselves” (so ASV, NAB, NASB).
