Isaiah 37:5

37:5 When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,

Isaiah 38:4

38:4 The Lord told Isaiah,¹

Isaiah 13:1

The Lord Will Judge Babylon

13:1 ²This is a message about Babylon that God revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz:³

Isaiah 39:5

39:5 Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Listen to the word of the Lord who commands armies:

Isaiah 2:1

The Future Glory of Jerusalem

2:1 Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem⁴ that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz.⁵

Isaiah 38:21

38:21 ⁶ Isaiah ordered, “Let them take a fig cake and apply it to the ulcerated sore and he will get well.”

Isaiah 1:1

Heading

1:1 Here is the message about Judah and Jerusalem⁷ that was revealed to Isaiah son of Amoz during the time when Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah reigned over Judah.⁸

Isaiah 20:3

20:3 Later the Lord explained, “In the same way that my servant Isaiah has walked around in undergarments and barefoot for the past three years, as an object lesson and omen pertaining to Egypt and Cush,

Isaiah 39:8

39:8 Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The Lord’s word which you have announced is appropriate.”⁹ Then he thought,¹⁰ “For¹¹ there will be peace and stability during my lifetime.”

Isaiah 7:3

7:3 So the Lord told Isaiah, “Go out with your son Shear-jashub¹² and meet Ahaz at the end of the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth.¹³

Isaiah 20:2

20:2 At that time the Lord announced through¹⁴ Isaiah son of Amoz: “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and take your sandals off your feet.” He did as instructed and walked around in undergarments¹⁵ and barefoot.

Isaiah 37:2

37:2 Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests,¹⁶ clothed in sackcloth, sent this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:

Isaiah 37:6

37:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me.¹⁷

Isaiah 37:21

37:21 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘Because you prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria,¹⁸

Isaiah 38:1

The Lord Hears Hezekiah’s Prayer

38:1 In those days Hezekiah was stricken with a terminal illness.¹⁹ The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz visited him and told him, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Give instructions to your household, for you are about to die; you will not get well.’”

Isaiah 39:3

39:3 Isaiah the prophet visited King Hezekiah and asked him, “What did these men say? Where do they come from?” Hezekiah replied, “They come from the distant land of Babylon.”

¹tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying.”

¹sn Isa 13-23 contains a series of judgment oracles against various nations. It is likely that Israel, not the nations mentioned, actually heard these oracles. The oracles probably had a twofold purpose. For those leaders who insisted on getting embroiled in international politics, these oracles were a reminder that Judah need not fear foreign nations or seek international alliances for security reasons. For the righteous remnant within the nation, these oracles were a reminder that Israel’s God was indeed the sovereign ruler of the earth, worthy of his people’s trust.

²tn Heb “The message [traditionally, “burden”] [about] Babylon which Isaiah son of Amoz saw.”

¹map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²tn Heb “the word which Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.”

¹tc If original to Isaiah 38, vv. 21-22 have obviously been misplaced in the course of the text’s transmission, and would most naturally be placed here, between Isa 38:6 and 38:7. See 2 Kgs 20:7-8, where these verses are placed at this point in the narrative, not at the end. Another possibility is that these verses were not in the original account, and a scribe, familiar with the 2 Kgs version of the story, appended vv. 21-22 to the end of the account in Isaiah 38.

¹map For location see Map5-B1; Map6-F3; Map7-E2; Map8-F2; Map10-B3; JP1-F4; JP2-F4; JP3-F4; JP4-F4.

²tn Heb “The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”

¹tn Heb “good” (so KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT); NAB “favorable.”

²tn Heb “and he said.” The verb אָמַר (’amar, “say”) is sometimes used of what one thinks (that is, says to oneself).

³tn Or “surely”; cf. CEV “At least.”

¹tn The name means “a remnant will return.” Perhaps in this context, where the Lord is trying to encourage Ahaz, the name suggests that only a few of the enemy invaders will return home; the rest will be defeated.

²tn Heb “the field of the washer”; traditionally “the fuller’s field” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “the Washerman’s Field.”

¹tn Heb “spoke by the hand of.”

²tn The word used here (עָרוֹם, ’arom) sometimes means “naked,” but here it appears to mean simply “lightly dressed,” i.e., stripped to one’s undergarments. See HALOT 883 s.v. עָרוֹם. The term also occurs in vv. 3, 4.

¹tn Heb “elders of the priests” (so KJV, NAB, NASB); NCV “the older priests”; NRSV, TEV, CEV “the senior priests.”

¹tn Heb “by which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me.”

¹tn The parallel text in 2 Kgs 19:20 reads, “That which you prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.” The verb “I have heard” does not appear in Isa 37:21, where אֲשֶׁר (’asher) probably has a causal sense: “because.”

¹tn Heb “was sick to the point of dying”; NRSV “became sick and was at the point of death.”