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Maybe I can help: I have a different perspective on Isaiah 7. The narrative is historical and more immediate, the prophecy of the sign in verse 14 is not.
From Tiglath-Pileser to Sennacherib is about 65 years. Isaiah 7:8 tells us the timeline, but Samaria didn't fall until 2 Kings 18:9-12 after Ahaz's time. This was in the time of Shalmaneser and King ...
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Isaiah 55:11 (ESV):
so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.
LXX:
οὕτως ἔσται τὸ ῥῆμά μου ὃ ἐὰν ἐξέλθῃ ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου, οὐ μὴ ἀποστραφῇ ἕως ἂν τελεσθῇ ὅσα ἠθέλησα, καὶ εὐοδώσω τὰς ὁδούς σου καὶ τὰ ἐντάλματά μου.
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This is a very special passage that comes to a new reality when Jesus appears - in ways hardly imagined by the people of Isaiah's day or any other time before God's mystery was made known.
Jesus IS the word of God - His logos who accomplishes what God sent him to do.
Jesus is sent to do vital work which culminates in his obedient death on a cross. He was of ...
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The verse has a four-fold parallel structure. We can benefit from the approach of Kugel to parallelism in his book "The Idea of BIblical Poetry..." (1981, Yale University Press). Kugel posited that parallelism is best read as "A moreover B" where each clause accepts the previous clause and builds on it.
If so we can regard the four verbs ...
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Isaiah knew about the law for sprinkling purifying water in Numbers 19:
11 “Whoever touches a human corpse will be unclean for seven days. 12They must purify themselves with the water on the third day and on the seventh day; then they will be clean.
He also knew the ablution ritual in Exodus 29:4
Then bring Aaron and his sons to the entrance to the tent ...
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What does Isaiah mean by “Wash you, make you clean”? (Isaiah 1:16)
There are nine commands, four negative in verse 16 and five positive in verse 17
Isaiah 1:16-17 NASB
Verse 16
1/ “Wash yourselves, 2/make yourselves clean; 3/ Remove the evil of
your deeds from My sight. 4/Stop doing evil,
God wants us to “Wash you, make you clean” of the following ...
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Who anointed our Lord Jesus Christ?
Acts 10:38
38how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with Him.
Who anointed our Lord Jesus Christ? Peter said, "God." What did God anoint our Lord Jesus with? Peter said, "the Holy ...
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Colossians 2:9 has minimal connection with Isaiah 7:16
Brackets in passage are mine.
10 Then the LORD spoke again to Ahaz, saying, 11 “Ask for a sign for yourself from the LORD your God; make it deep as Sheol or high as heaven.” 12 But Ahaz said, “I will not ask, nor will I put the LORD to the test!” 13 Then he said, “Listen now, house of David! Is it too ...
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“but emptied εκενωσεν himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.”
Philippians 2:7
The Bible translates εκενωσεν in different ways but the word essentially means to render useless, to void, to nullify and this comes from the idea of emptying.
(This illustration has limitations because God a spirit nullified His ...
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The verb in Luke 4:18 translated "anointed" is χρίω (chrió), from which we get the official title of Jesus, "Christ" = anointed one, or, Messiah in Hebrew. The five uses of this verb in the NT answers the question:
Luke 4:18 - “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to ...
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Regarding God's "Anointed One" מְשִׁיחוֹ֘ in Isaiah's prophecy, we read about two Messiah(s) : Cyrus & Israel.
While Cyrus | כ֣וֹרֶשׁ "Koresh" is called by God - "His Anointed One" in [Isaiah 45:1], the prophecy of [Isaiah 61:1] is about an Anointed Israel who acts as God's Servant to the nations.
Isaiah 45:1 - "So ...
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The Hebrew text explicitly says, "because the Lord has anointed me." So it is not the Holy Spirit who anoints, but He is the anointing oil itself, in Jesus' case. I would argue that Jesus was anointed with and by the Holy Spirit Himself, sent by the Father (John 14:26), to preach the gospel by His power while on earth, and not by His own divine ...
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1 Samuel 16:13
So Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the presence of his brothers, and from that day on the Spirit of the LORD came powerfully upon David.
The anointing oil symbolizes or represents the Spirit of the LORD.
Jesus was not anointed with physical oil but literally with the Spirit of God in Matthew 3:16
As soon as Jesus was ...
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Sought out for his ability to heal, Jesus was well acquainted with human infirmity. The text records his innumerable encounters with the sick, the disabled and those who were otherwise afflicted in body or spirit. This verse in Isaiah, however, seems to reference first hand rather than indirect experience of physical infirmity.
A man of great pain and ...
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I agree with the premise of the question stated in the first sentence of the OP as stated in my answer to the previous question, here, > Isaiah 53:3 acquainted with חלי - grief, suffering or infirmity?
The sickness that the suffering servant of Isa 53 would be know is the sickness of our broken humanity (Ps 51:5, Rom 3:10-18) in which the Messiah shared, ...
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English Standard Version Isaiah 53:3
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
At https://biblehub.com/isaiah/53-3.htm, 17 out of 25 versions use the word acquainted.
How was the man of Isaiah 53 “acquainted” with infirmity?
He was ...
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Whatever one says about חֱלִי in Isa 53;3 one must also say about its occurrence in V4 because the two appear in parallel - V4 builds on the meaning in V3.
It is certainly true that חֱלִי most often means sickness/infirmity. In fact, of the 24 times this word appears in the OT, 20 times it is translated sickness/affliction/disease, etc, and four times "...
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Affliction is the term I get from the KJV. I’m currently studying Hebrew so am unable to speak on the translation.
The meaning of affliction makes more sense of this.
of a problem or illness) cause pain or suffering to; affect or trouble.
of a celestial body) be in a stressful aspect with (another celestial body or a point on the ecliptic)
Also in response ...
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what is a "Kingdom " ? defining Biblical terms is an interesting
pursuit ... Separate the literal -physical term and the symbolic or representative meanings to arrive at truth.. the"earth abideth forever" Ecc.1:4 / ...yet the Bible states in Isaiah 65:17 " I create a new heavens and a new "earth"..! terra firma exists to ...
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Optional info>>>. Nehemiah 13:16 really does not fit the context of Isaiah 23: 18 , which is a positive statement regarding necessary food and clothing sanctioned by God ; possibly for ,or during a transition period in the future times of restitution ,when mankind will need the food for an imperfect physical body ... As the general resurrection ...
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Isaiah 34:14
Berean Study Bible
The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature [H3917 liyliyth] will settle and find her place of repose.
https://biblehub.com/hebrew/3917.htm
Brown-Driver-Briggs
לִילִית noun feminine Lilith (Milton Che night-hag), name of a female night-demon haunting desolate ...
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The incident involving Hezekiah's illness occurred during the hegemony of Assyria, about 700 BC during the reign of Sennacherib. The government of Babylon was almost a government in exile and struggling to survive and needed all the friends it could get.
According to the record in 2 Chron 32:24-31; 2 Kings 20:1–19; and Isaiah 38:1 - 39:8, the envoys from ...
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The "seeking/doing your own pleasure" in Isa 58:13 has been the subject of (in some isolated legalistic circles) intense debate. However, the sense is clear even from ancient times.
The best explanation is actually provided by the LXX in its translation of Isa 58:13 which reads:
ἐὰν ἀποστρέψῃς τὸν πόδα σου ἀπὸ τῶν σαββάτων τοῦ μὴ ποιεῖν τὰ ...
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It is deaths, and to understand the how and why Christ died two deaths google Arthur Prince Adams The Spirit of the Word and click on a subtitle We See Jesus and read through to the conclusion of The Loneliness of Christ where God willing you will understand this verse correctly.
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