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Isaiah 8:10
Devise
עֻ֥צוּ (‘u·ṣū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 5779: To counsel, plan
a plan,
עֵצָ֖ה (‘ê·ṣāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6098: Advice, plan, prudence
but it will be thwarted;
וְתֻפָ֑ר (wə·ṯu·p̄ār)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hofal - Conjunctive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6565: To break up, to violate, frustrate
state
דַּבְּר֤וּ (dab·bə·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue
a proposal,
דָבָר֙ (ḏā·ḇār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause
but it will not
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no
happen.
יָק֔וּם (yā·qūm)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 6965: To arise, stand up, stand
For
כִּ֥י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction
God
אֵֽל׃ (’êl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 410: Strength -- as adjective, mighty, the Almighty
is with us.”
עִמָּ֖נוּ (‘im·mā·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 5973: With, equally with
The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of
Uzziah (or Azariah),
Jotham,
Ahaz, and
Hezekiah, the kings of
Judah.
Soon after this,
Shalmaneser V determined to subdue the northern Kingdom of Israel, taking over and destroying
Samaria and beginning the
Assyrian captivity. So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was untouched by the Assyrian power. But when Hezekiah gained the throne, he was encouraged to rebel "against the king of Assyria",
[20] and entered into an alliance with the king of
Egypt.
[21] The king of Assyria threatened the king of Judah, and at length invaded the land.
Sennacherib's campaign in the Levant brought his powerful army into Judah. Hezekiah was reduced to despair, and submitted to the Assyrians.
[22] But after a brief interval, war broke out again. Again Sennacherib led an army into Judah, one detachment of which threatened Jerusalem.
[23] Isaiah on that occasion encouraged Hezekiah to resist the Assyrians,
[24] whereupon Sennacherib sent a threatening letter to Hezekiah, which he "spread before
the LORD".
According to the account in
2 Kings 19 (and its derivative account in
2 Chronicles 32) an angel of God fell on the Assyrian army and 185,000 of its men were killed in one night. "Like
Xerxes in Greece, Sennacherib never recovered from the shock of the disaster in Judah. He made no more expeditions against either Southern Palestine or Egypt."
The remaining years of Hezekiah's reign were peaceful. Isaiah probably lived to its close, and possibly into the reign of
Manasseh. The time and manner of his death are not specified in either the
Bible or other primary sources.
[13] The
Talmud says that he suffered martyrdom by being
sawn in two under the orders of Manasseh.
- Here we get God is with us!
- But not for long!
- The kings usually preferred human kings instead of Yah.weh!
