Isaiah 17

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Isaiah 17 KJV
1. The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2. The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3. The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the Lord of hosts.
4. And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5. And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6. Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the Lord God of Israel.
7. At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8. And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
9. In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10. Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11. In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12. Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13. The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14. And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Esaias 17 LXX-Septuagint (Sir Lancelot C. L. Brenton 1851)
1. THE WORD AGAINST DAMASCUS. Behold, Damascus shall be taken away from among cities, and shall become a ruin;
2. abandoned for ever, to be a fold and resting-place for flocks, and there shall be none to go after them.
3. And she shall no longer be a strong place for Ephraim to flee to, and there shall no longer be a kingdom in Damascus, or a remnant of Syrians; for thou art no better than the children of Israel, even than their glory; thus saith the Lord of hosts.
4. There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.
5. And it shall be as if one should gather standing corn, and reap the grain of the ears; and it shall be as if one should gather ears in a rich valley;
6. and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel.
7. In that day a man shall trust in him that made him, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8. And they shall not at all trust in their altars, nor in the works of their hands, which their fingers made; and they shall not look to the trees, nor to their abominations.
9. In that day thy cities shall be deserted, as the Amorites and the Evaeans deserted theirs, because of the children of Israel; and they shall be desolate.
10. Because thou hast forsaken God thy Saviour, and hast not been mindful of the Lord thy helper; therefore shalt thou plant a false plant, and a false seed.
11. In the day wherein thou shalt plant thou shalt be deceived; but if thou sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein thou shalt obtain an inheritance, and as a man’s father, thou shalt obtain an inheritance for thy sons.
12. Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall ye be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;
13. many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.
14. Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.
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The cities are the women are the covenants, (Galatians 4:22-26, Hebrews 12:22-24).
And every man with his "ornamental world" round about him is likened to a city:

Genesis 4:17 KJV
17. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived, and bare Enoch: and he builded a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch.

Genesis 10:8-12 KJV
8. And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
9. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
10. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
11. Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,
12. And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city.

Joshua 3:16 KJV
16. That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

Joshua 6:26 KJV
26. And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

1 Kings 16:33-34 KJV
33. And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.
34. In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

Likewise the whole of the land of Israel with all of its tribal allotments is likened to the whole body of the man Jacob, (who is renamed Israel) with the twelve tribes being his own sons within the boundaries of his own "body"-nation-people. Thus when Isaiah says that the cities of Aroer shall be forsaken it speaks of the three cities of Aroer having been written in the Scripture. Two of these cities called Aroer are found in Torah of Moses and Joshua while the third is a city in the Negev where king David and his men sometimes stayed.

Aroer of Reuben that was on the bank of the river Arnon:

Joshua 13:15-16 KJV
15. And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families.
16. And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;

Aroer of Gad which was before Rabbah:

Joshua 13:24-25 KJV
24. And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.
25. And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;

Aroer of Simeon which was within the allotment of Judah:

1 Samuel 30:26-31 KJV
26. And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;
27. To them which were in Bethel, and to them which were in south Ramoth, and to them which were in Jattir,
28. And to them which were in Aroer, and to them which were in Siphmoth, and to them which were in Eshtemoa,
29. And to them which were in Rachal, and to them which were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them which were in the cities of the Kenites,
30. And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chorashan, and to them which were in Athach,
31. And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.

When therefore Isaiah the prophet speaks of the destruction of Dammeseq, the fortress ceasing from Ephraim, and the fall of the cities of Aroer, he speaks only of cities and places found within the boundaries of the "body"-nation-people of the all Israel of God. Likewise the prophet speaks this from Torah concerning the carnal minds of those holding to the flesh mindset with all of its carnal attributes, (including the two ways of the two covenants, which are the two women, which are the two cities in the Book of the Revelation of Yeshua) for every man must put off the flesh with all of its attributes so as to truly begin knowing our Creator by his Word; but if we walk according to the flesh by the eyes, mind, and belly of the flesh, especially in our understanding of the Word; then the Scripture says that we will surely die. However, Yeshua says: "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad!"

The Word of YHWH came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy magen-shield, and thy reward shall be multiplied greatly. And Abram said, Adonay YHWH, what givest thou unto me? even I walk destitute; and the son of mesheq-possession of my house is the dammeseq-blood-inheritor Eliezer. And Abram said, Behold, unto me thou hast given no seed, and, lo, a son of my house is inheriting me. And, behold, the Word of YHWH came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own me`ah-heart shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed into YHWH; and he counted it to him for righteousness. And he said unto him, I am YHWH that brought thee out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give thee this land to inherit it. And he said, Adonai YHWH, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it? And he said unto him, Take for me of an `eglah-heifer from the treble, and of an `ez-she goat from the treble, and of a ram from the treble, and a tor-dove; even a gozal-nestling. And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against his neighbor: but the tsippor-bird divided he not. And descended the vultures over the carcasses, and Abram drove them away. And when the sun was going down, a trance of deep sleep fell over Abram; and, behold, a terror-horror of great darkness fell over him. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance. And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold, a tannuwr-fire pot, vapor of smoke, and fire of lightning that passed between those pieces.

In the same day cut YHWH a covenant to Abram . . .
And the great city of Abram was divided into third parts . . .

The Essenes at Qumran called the community Dammeseq-Damascus because they understood the meaning of the name, (blood inheritor). And this because the community was primarily a Zadokite community shepherded by the true priesthood of the sons of the house of Zadok which were outcasts from Jerusalem proper because they understood that all of the sacrificial commandments of Moshe were supernal in meaning and pointed to Messiah and therefore did not eat meat, (for thou shalt not kill). The same Qumran-Damascus is that wherein Yochanan the Immerser was taken as an orphan, at an early age, being of the sons of Abijah, and raised in the deserts of Judaea. The same it is also wherein certain renegade priests fled when they sought refuge from the authorities at Jerusalem; such was Ananias, a son of the house of Annas the former High Priest, for whom Paul had received letters for to go and retrieve from Qumran-Damascus wherein which city Jerusalem had authority to bind, (not the modern Damascus that is in modern Syria because there Jerusalem did not have such authority). But when Paul was converted in the road to Qumran-Damascus he ended up having the same Ananias sent to him, so as to pray for him that he might receive back his sight; the very same Ananias whom he was sent to bind and bring back to Jerusalem for punishment. After his conversion Paul mightily convinced many of the Zadokite priesthood at Qumran-Damascus that indeed Yeshua was not only the final Teacher of Righteousness, but likewise the legitimate Son of man, (which is the Essene name for the legitimate High Priest taken from Ezekiel HaNavi) and Messiah of all Israel; and many of the Sadducs believed and immersed into the Yeshua faith. They also apparently understood what was to come: thus the scroll caves, wherein the manuscripts were discovered. God is so good.