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In Isaiah, chapter twenty-three, verses fifteen through seventeen, taking the number literally, the seventy years may coincide with those of the captivity of Judah, during which, under the Chaldaean supremacy, Tyre was reduced to a state of comparative insignificance. It seems better, however, with Cheyne, to take it as a symbolic number for a long […]

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-three, verse thirteen, “Behold the land of the Chaldeans; this people was not, till the Assyrian founded it for them that dwell in the wilderness: they set up the towers thereof, they raised up the palaces thereof; and he brought it to ruin.” The land of Chaldea was the region of which

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-three, verse one, Tyre was a Phoenician center for world commerce on the East coast of the Mediterranean Sea, just north of the Holy Land. Its citizens were wealthy, but also evil and prideful. Therefore, Isaiah prophesied that God would bring that city down for seventy years and then restore it for

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-two, verses fifteen through twenty-five, beginning with the first two verses, “Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here,

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-two, verses twelve through thirteen, when God’s people compromise with the world and turn away from obeying God’s righteous ways, He calls them to repent, confess their spiritual poverty, and seek His face. Christ wants all churches to examine their spiritual state in the light of the New Testament and its standards,

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-two, verse four, “Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.” Isaiah, a true prophet, felt the tragedy of a fallen and apostate people. God’s people were being destroyed, and he grieved for them

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-two, verse one, “The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?” The name refers to Jerusalem or to the valley near Jerusalem where God had revealed Himself in prophetic visions. God here rebukes the inhabitants of Jerusalem for their frivolous

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-one, verse thirteen, “The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.” Arabia was located between Edom and Babylon. It would experience warfare and defeat at the hands of the invaders, fulfilled as the Assyrians attacked the Arabians in the Old Testament; Sennacherib

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-one, verse eleven, Dumah is an alternate name for Edom, the land of Esau’s descendants. Edom was located immediately south of Judah and the Dead Sea. Several places of the name are mentioned in the Old Testament, as in Genesis twenty-five, verse fourteen, “And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,” and “Arab, and

In Isaiah, chapter twenty-one, verse nine, Babylon, the foe of God’s people, would fall, its reliance on their gods shattered; it first took place in the early days of the Old Testament, before the Son of Man, when Sennacherib smashed their idols, except for Bel and Nebo in chapter forty-six, verses one through two, “Bel