In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:
Parallel translations
- WEB This burden was in the year that king Ahaz died.
- KJV In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
- BSB In the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
- NKJV This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.
- NLT This message came to me the year King Ahaz died:
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Quick answer
This oracle came in the year King Ahaz died, introducing a prophecy against Philistia. It anchors the following message in a specific historical moment.
Overview
The notice dates the burden against Philistia to roughly 715 BC, a time of political shifting in the region. Such datelines show Isaiah's prophecies were given into real history, not vague timelessness. They remind us that God speaks his word into concrete situations with sure fulfillment.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 2 Kgs 16:20Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in David’s city, and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- 2 Chr 28:27Ahaz slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city, even in Jerusalem, because they didn’t bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel; and Hezekiah his son reigned in his place.
- Isa 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw:
- Isa 6:1In the year that king Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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