CHAPTER 14 EXILED ISRAEL WILL BE RESTORED. FURTHER JUDGMENTS ON THE KING OF BABYLON. JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA AND THE REJECTION OF PHILISTINE AMBASSADORS. Having depicted the demise of Babylon Isaiah now looks more closely at more of its causes. She would humiliate Israel and Judah and her king would ex... [ Continue Reading ]
DESPITE THEIR EXILE, ISRAEL'S CAUSE IS NOT LOST (ISAIAH 14:1). Typical of Isaiah is that in the midst of the burden of Babylon, and the descriptions of its downfall, come promises of restoration for Israel and Judah. In the midst of it all Yahweh has not forgotten His people. Analysis. a For Yahw... [ Continue Reading ]
THE DEMISE OF BABYLON AND HUMILIATION OF ITS BOASTFUL KINGS (ISAIAH 14:3). The coming of the Babylonian ambassadors to Hezekiah had had a profound influence on Isaiah. As he thought on the future, with the Assyrians seen as a doomed empire because of what God had revealed to him, he began to realise... [ Continue Reading ]
JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (ISAIAH 14:24). But the reader is asking, what of Assyria? Thus Assyria is dealt with briefly and for the last time judgmentwise in this section. To Isaiah it is of no more consequence. But the picture of the destruction of Babylon reminds him that Assyria must also be destroyed... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BURDEN OF PHILISTIA (ISAIAH 14:28). This comes ‘in the year that King Ahaz died'. Thus it is probable that we are to see some connection between the death and the oracle. Philistia are told that they must not rejoice at the breaking of ‘the rod', for another will arise to continue their harassm... [ Continue Reading ]