History of the Old Testament Essay

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(Ross,Allen) It was when the ruthless Assyrian conqueror, on the throne is Tiglathpileser III, a ruthless and powerful king was terrorizing the all another(prenominal) nations, and Judah, unwilling to join in a coalition against him, was attacked by Israel and Syria, the old-fashioned Aramaea , wit h its main city in Damascus, and Ephraim, the northern Israelite state, with its main city Samaria and therefore, mogul Ahaz when he heard of this coalition was thinking seriously of inviting Assyrian help(Tiglathpileser III).It must be pointed out that the whole purpose was to dissuade King Ahaz from embarking a haywire course of action, take a shitly, that of relying upon Assyria rather than upon the Lord. In the tell of Jehovah, it was this moment the prophet commences with a historical announcement. Isaiah 71 says It came to pass, in the days of Ahaz son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aramaea, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to contendd Jerusalem to war against it, and could not make war against it.The Syrian king Rezin had get in up against Jerusalem and with him was Pekah of Israel. Their purpose was to wage war, simply unable to besiege it the fortune tell aparting of the chapter is amazingly accurate. The si gn that a boy was about to be born(p) is the pivotal point. Before he would be old enough to tell right from wrong, that is, about 12 old age old, the enemies would not only be defeated but cease to exist. According to history, Shalmaneser V (the successor to Tiglathpileser) campaigned against the demean and besieged Samaria.He died in the duration and was succeeded by Sargon II who entire the destruction of the northern state in 722 or 721 B. C. So the oracle in Isaiah 7 could be dated about twelve years before that destruction in 722 B. (Ross, Allen ) II. Literary Context of Isaiah 714-16 Therefore the Lord Himself give you a sign Behold, a virgin will be with child and bear a son, and she will call His name Immanuel. He will eat curds and honey at the time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.The word therefore signifies that something had interpreted place before the incident forwarded here in verse 14, and inasmuch as the wicked king in hypocritical fashion rejec ts the opportunity of postulation for a sign, therefore he lost the privilege of asking a sign in his own favor. Instead the Lord Himself will give a sign, and this one of His own choosing, announcing the birth of a wondrous tike as the sign of deliverance, and making the babyhood of that Child the measure of the time that Judah is yet to suffer affliction, before the time of deliverance will come. up to now as we have seen because of Ahaz unbelief after the comfortable promises made to him as a branch of the hold of David, what took place was a terrible intemperate against him, as a degenerate branch of that house for though the deity was patience and His loving patient ofness shall not be utterly taken away, for the sake of David and the covenant made with, yet his inequity shall be dealt with the rod, and his sin with stripes. In fulfilment of the divination, the Egyptians and the Assyrians filled the land in their war with for each one other.Devastation from this war sev erely tested the people, so that nothing grew in the fields, and the survivors had to rely on curds and honey. This led up to and included the invasion of 701 B. C. under Sennacherib, the next Assyrian king, when Hezekiah was on the throne in Jerusalem, and 200,000 people from Judah were carried off into captivity. As we shall see, the details of the Assyrian crisis are very accurately prophesied in these oracles (Ross, Allen_______& Young, E. J. 1993). III. Commentary on Isaiah 714-16Isaiah 714 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel. Since the King did not ask for a sign that the land shall be delivered from the enemies, Yahweh will furnish one unasked. Yahweh will not withhold it because a proud and contemptuous King refuses to seek it. The LORD himself, He will do it and not hindered though it is rejected and despised he will do it because of its necessity for the welfare of the nation, a nd for the confirmation of his religion, to furnish a monstrance to the people that he is the only true God.It is clearly implied here, that the emphasis is that the sign should be such as Yahweh alone could give. If this refers to the birth of a child, then it federal agency that this was an event which could be known only to God, and which could be realised only by his agency. If it refers to the miraculous conception and birth of the Messiah, then it marrow that that was an event which none but God could accomplish. Shall give you, primarily refers to the house of David the king and royal family of Judah. It was especially designed to assure the government that the terra firma would be safe.Doubtless, however, the word you is designed to include the nation, or the people of the acres of Judah. It would be so public a sign, and so clear a induction, as to convince them that their city and land must be lastly safe. A sign, a pledge a token an evidence of the fulfillment of w hat is predicted. The word does not, of necessity, concern a miracle, though it is often so use see the notes at Isaiah 711. But rather it means a proof, a demonstration, a certain indication that what he had said should come to its fulfillment.Behold this interjection serves to designate persons and things places and actions. It is utilise in lively descriptions, and awake(p) discourse or when anything unusual was said, or occurred it means, that an event was to occur which demanded the attention of the unbelieving King, and the regard of the people-an event which would be a full demonstration of what the prophet had said. A virgin, it is used in its obvious natural sense, to concern a unseasoned, unmarried female. The derivatives are applied to youth to young men to young women-to those who are growing up, and becoming youths.This virgin as used in his word properly means a girl, maiden, virgin, a young woman who is unmarried, and who is of marriageable age. And shall call h is name, it was usual for mothers to give names to their children. The intellection is, it is the appropriate name that would be given to the child. Although another name was in addition given to this child, expressing substantially the same thing, with a circumstantial difference. Immanuel a Hebrew name which means God with us the name is designed to denote that God would be with the nation as its protector, and the birth of this child would be a sign or pledge of it.The name, Immanuel, denotes nothing more than inspired aid and protection. Others have supposed, however, that the name must denote the assumption of our disposition by God in the person of the Messiah, that is, that God became man. The true recitation is, that no argument to prove that can be derived from the use of the name but when the fact of the incarnation has been demonstrated from other sources, the name is fittingly expressive of that event. ( Barnes, 1997). Isaiah 715 He will eat curds and honey at th e time He knows enough to refuse evil and choose good.(NASV) Young( ), showed that the early childhood of the promised Messiah is made the measure of the time that Judah will be in danger from her twain enemies. This thought namely, namely the duration of a period of difficulty, is expressed symbolically in that Immanuel iws pictured as subsisting during His infancy on curds and honey, which was symbolical royal diet. From the time of His birth, supposedly, the Child will eat this peculiar food, and at the time when He can discern amongst good and evil, rejecting the one and choosing the other, He will be take in these things.At an early age a child learns to reject evil and to choose good, or at least to distinguish among the two. Thus, by means of this measure, we learn that the affliction or forlornness of the two enemy kings is short-lived, mayhap only two or three years. The reference may be to what is injurious or useful in life but in the light of the usage of this phras e in Genesis 2, it clearly refers alike to what is morally good and evil. Isaiah 716 For before the boy will know enough to refuse evil and choose good, the land whose two kings you dread will be forsaken.(NASV) The land that you dread, the land concerning which thou art so much alarmed or distressed that is, the united land of Syria and Ephraim. Refers to one land, because they were united then in a firm alliance, so as to constitute, in fact, or for the purposes of invasion and conquest, one people or nation. The phrase, which you dread, means properly, which thou loathes, the primary idea of the word being to face a nausea, or to throw up. It then means to fear, or to see alarm and this, probably, is the meaning here.Ahaz, however, evidently looked upon the nations of Syria and Samaria with disgust, as well as with alarm. The meaning of the land is that the kings themselves were the objects of dislike or dread and not merely that the two kings should be removed, but that the land itself was threatened with desolation. This construction is an exegetical kind which agrees with the idiom of the Hebrew. (Barnes, 1993) IV Summary of Isaiah 714-16 As a compendium of these three verses it was shown that in verse 14 Isaiah made a contract that the Lord will give a sign.This seeing of the virgin is not with with the physical eyes, Isaiah have not seen the Messiah in His physical birth, but in vision. In vision, then, the prophet beholds the virgin with child. An in the birth of this son, the heraldic bearing of God is manifest in a most unique way. The 14th verse constitutes a sure and a definite fulfillment of the prophecy of the birth of Immanuel. With verse 15 the prophet proceeds to show that the infancy of the Messiah a symbolical representation of the fact that the threat which overhung Judah would be short-lived.This he does by picturing the child in vision eating royal food (according to commentator Young which I prefer to use in this summary). The child will eat this food, symbol of threat and desolation yet before He reaches the age where He knows the difference between good and evil, the two kings which Ahaz dreads will forsake the land of Israel, and there will be nothing more for him to fear from them. The prophetical naming of this child having thus had its accomplishment, no doubt this, which was further added concerning him, should have its accomplishment likewise, that Syria and Israel should be deprived of both their kings.One mercy from God encourages us to trust for another, if it engages us to prepare for another.BIBLIOGRAPHYBarnes Notes, Barnes and Nobles Commentary. Electronic Database. (Copyright (c) 1997 by Biblesoft) Ross, Allen. A Call for combine and the Sign for Emmanuel. Bible. Org http//www. bible. org/page. php? page_id=2088 Young, E. J. The Book of Isaiah A Commentary. (MichiganWilliam B. Eerdsman Publishing Company, 1993)