Early in his career, which lasted approximately 40 years — B. Around B. As a prophet, Isaiah delivered messages from Yahweh about these events to political leaders and social elites in Jerusalem. Isa and 2Kgs include stories about Isaiah and speeches attributed to him.
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The first of the major prophets in the Eng. Bible, the first of the latter prophets in the Heb. Bible, the largest and prob. The prophet Isaiah is mentioned repeatedly in 2 Kings and three times in 2 Chronicles. His name appears sixteen times in the book that bears his name. Late tradition asserts that the prophet was martyred in the reign of Manasseh. During this period the northern kingdom fell and was taken captive. The southern kingdom Judah was heavily attacked.
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Your browser does not support JavaScript. Please note, our website requires JavaScript to be supported. Please contact us or click here to learn more about how to enable JavaScript on your browser. Follow us:. Listen Now. Isaiah was married to a prophetess who bore him at least two sons Isaiah ; He prophesied under the reign of four Judean kings—Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah —and he likely met his death under a fifth, the evil King Manasseh. Much of scholarship for the past two centuries has assigned multiple writers to Isaiah, dividing the book into three sections: 1—39, 40—55, and 56— However, these divisions come out of a scholarly denial of predictive prophecy. This position not only limits the power of God to communicate with His people but also ignores the wide variety of specific, predictive claims about Jesus Christ scattered throughout the book.
Within the text of the Book of Isaiah, Isaiah himself is referred to as "the prophet", [10] but the exact relationship between the Book of Isaiah and any such historical Isaiah is complicated. The traditional view is that all 66 chapters of the book of Isaiah were written by one man, Isaiah, possibly in two periods between BC and c. Another widely held view is that parts of the first half of the book chapters 1—39 originated with the historical prophet, interspersed with prose commentaries written in the time of King Josiah a hundred years later, and that the remainder of the book dates from immediately before and immediately after the end of the exile in Babylon , almost two centuries after the time of the historical prophet. Uzziah's reign was 52 years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the s BC. Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of the reign of Hezekiah who died BC. He may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh.
