God's chosen people have faced persecution from nearly every single empire that has dominated the earth from the beginning of time. From the slavery of the Ancient Egyptians to the Holocaust of the Third Reich, how is it possible that this tiny nation today stands so strong?
Cyrus, the new master, who is presented in the second part of Isaiah as God’s chosen instrument, gave proof of an unexpected tolerance toward the religion and customs of each ethnic group. All dreams were now permissible; songs were already improvised for the caravans that would cross the ...
This study seeks to trace out the structure of the Book of Prophet Isaiah with commentaries and to explore what that structure reveals about the text in some manuscripts of the East Slavonic and South Slavonic traditions. There are three conclusions made as a result of the present study. ...
1:23“The virgin . . . Immanuel.”Quotation fromIsaiah 7:14. PLUSDo your Biblical studies anywhere! Access $3,100 worth of premium resources on the go! Upgrade toBible Gateway Plusand get the best value in digital Bible study. Resources forMatthew 1 ...
The degree to which the Jews looked upon Cyrus the Great as their benefactor and a servant of their God is reflected at several points in the Hebrew Bible—e.g., at Isaiah 45:1–3, where he is actually called God’s anointed.
c.740-700 B.C. - The ministry of Isaiah in Judah c.747 - 742 B.C. c.742 - 740 B.C.Menahem Pekahiahc.739 - 734 B.C.Jotham c.740 - 731 B.C. c.731 - 722 B.C.Pekah Hosheac.734 - 728 B.C. c.728 - 699 B.C.Ahaz ...
Is Sargon in the Bible? Sargon is in the Bible associated with a siege of a city in Philistia during the lifetime of the prophet Isaiah. Inscriptions at a temple in Nineveh verify this fact. Why was Sargon a great leader? Sargon was a great leader because of three major things: He ...
For the prophet Isaiah, having this remnant in view, had already said, ‘Unless the Lord of Hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been like Gomorrah’ (Isa.1:9, Rom.9:29). ‘So then,’ says the apostle, ‘at this present time also a remnant...
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J.A. Motyer gives one version of the formula, “Holiness is God’s hidden glory: glory is God’s all-present holiness,” (The Prophecy of Isaiah, 77). It’s a striking formulation that wonderfully highlights a regular identification, or link between the concept of holiness and glory in ...