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What evidence is used to support the claim that Isaiah was written before the reign of King Cyrus?
Prima Facie evidence
The primary evidence is that the text claims to have been written by Isaiah the son of Amoz, and that his career spanned portions of the reigns of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and ...
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(Isaiah 3:12)’s declaration that women would rule over Jerusalem & Judah suggests that men became irresponsible and/or negligent about leadership jobs
The word "women" may not have been in the original Hebrew text. The Septuagint diverges greatly from the Masoretic Text, which was compiled several hundred years after the Septuagint:
O my ...
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Does Isaiah 30:6 confirm pre-existence of fire breathing dragons?
The operative word in Isa 30:6 is שָׂרָף (saraph) = serpent/snake which only occurs seven times in the OT as follows:
Numbers 21:6, 8 - snakes with a fiery bite because of the burning sensation ...
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Does Isaiah 7:14 refer to a virgin?
The Sign of Immanuel in Isaiah 7:14 is the single most debated text in scripture. Dozens—literally dozens—of PhD dissertations have been written on it. There are three main questions inherent in the ...
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How can Isaiah 42:8 possibly be true, if John 13:31-32 is true?
This question is really only an apparent contradiction if one begins with the assumption that Jesus is not and never was YHWH of the OT. If this is a contradiction, then there are many more of them - ...
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Is there a break between Isaiah 39 and 40 in the Dead Sea Scrolls?
In a 2013 interview with Dr Peter Flint, who is an editor on the Isaiah scroll, he had the following to say about the issue:
Many scholastic studies tell us that the book of Isaiah was divided into ...
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Has Isaiah 59:20 been changed in Roman 11:26?
The answer, I think, is no.
Paul quotes almost exclusively from the Greek Septuagint version of the Old Testament. In the Septuagint, Isaiah 59:20 reads
ἥξει ἐκ Σιὼν ὁ ῥυόμενος καὶ ἀποστρέψει ...
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Does Matthew 3:3 prove the divinity of Christ, and, if so, how?
The Matthew 3:1-3 verses prove that John the Baptist was the one foretold to prepare the way of the Lord, as in Isaiah 40:3. This was also foretold in Malachi 3:1, hundreds of years before the ...
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From King Ahaz's perspective, how was the virgin-Immanuel sign fulfilled?
First, the Hebrew word עַלְמָה (almah) which is translated "virgin" in Isa 7:14 actually only means "damsel/maiden" - a woman of marriageable age who may or may not be a virgin ...
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What does it mean "the earth is God's footstool"?
Adding a visual to Dottard's excellent information.
A stone relief of Xerxes seated on a throne. Note Xerxes feet are on a footstool.
A lot has been written about ancient thrones and footstools and ...
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Why are Jesus and Satan both referred to as the morning star?
There are several matters here that I will take quite separately.
Isaiah 14:12
Satan is not mentioned in this verse - the reference is to "the King of Babylon", V4. However, a common ...
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In Isaiah 45:23 is God saying that all shall bow to God or to Cyrus?
כִּי־לִי תִּכְרַ֣ע כָּל־בֶּ֔רֶךְ
For to me every knee shall bow
תִּשָּׁבַע כָּל־לָשֽׁוֹן
Every tongue shall confess.
The highlighted לי is the preposition lamed ("to", "for", "toward") ...
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How does the OT quote in Galatians 4:27 relate to the situation in Galatia at that time?
First, What was the situation in Galatia at that time? Once that is established, the reason for the OT quote should become clearer.
On Paul and Barnabas’s first missionary tour, they had established ...
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Was Immanuel a real name?
No wife .. No child!
To foretell the future of the House of Isreal, the prophets were using the metaphoric stories of the birthing of children and their metaphoric names. Let's see an example of that, ...
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Is the grammatical tense for Isaiah 9:6 irrelevant when it comes to debating whether Isaiah 9:6 refers to Jesus Christ, The Messiah?
First, Hebrew verbs do not have tense - there is no past, present and future tense in Hebrew. We have various forms of the Hebrew verbs such as Qal, Niphal, Pual, perfect, etc, for which English has ...
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How can the virgin birth in Matthew 1:22 be a fulfilment of Isaiah 7:14?
As I sketched out in this answer, Ahaz's refusal to ask for a sign is critical to interpreting what follows. For what follows is not best conceived in context as a sign "designed to signify to ...
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How should Isaiah 59:19 be translated and understood?
why the double dashes? That's a "writing smell" to me suggesting the translators are in the weeds
What the translation means to say by including the dashes is And from the rising of the sun [they ...
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What is the meaning of “Rahab who sits still.”?
The ESV comment on Isaiah 30:6-7 says this:
Isaiah mocks the Judean embassy carrying payment to the court of Egypt. The danger and difficulty of the journey, the expense of the purchase, and its ...
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What is the meaning of “Rahab who sits still.”?
What is the meaning of “Rahab who sits still.”?
Isaiah 30:7 ESV
Egypt’s help is worthless and empty; therefore I have called her “Rahab who sits still.”
Rahab, a " symbolic sea monster," ...
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What does Isaiah 43:10 mean by there being no other gods before or after the Lord?
In this passage God states his own choosing of his own witnesses. And to his own chosen witnesses he reveals himself.
And to no other.
This revelation is spiritual. The Spirit of God reveals God to ...
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Isaiah 5:14 - Sheol/Hell personified as a woman?
The definition of the individual word matters, but we must also see how it is used in context of the scriptures. When we go back to the first vs of this chapter it becomes apparent that Israel was the ...
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Is Lucifer a proper name of Satan according to Isaiah 14:12?
The answer to your question is in verse four. God begins this discourse by identifying the one to whom the following statements are directed.
"You will take up this taunt against the king of ...
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