Isaiah 13
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The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter. | |
| Book | Book of Isaiah |
| Bible part | Old Testament |
| Order in the Bible part | 23 |
| Category | Nevi'im |
Isaiah 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.[1][2] This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.[3][4]
Text
- The original text is written in Hebrew language.
- This chapter is divided into 22 verses.
Textual versions
Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:
Ancient translations in Koine Greek:
- Septuagint (3rd century BC)
- Theodotion version (~AD 180)
Structure
This chapter can be grouped into:
- Isaiah 13:1-22 = Proclamation Against Babylon
Verse 17
- "Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,
- Who will not regard silver;
- And as for gold, they will not delight in it."[7]
- "Medes" - One of the places in which the prophet specified, "by name," the instrument of the wrath of God. Cyrus, the king of Medes is subsequently mentioned Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1 as the agent by which God would accomplish his purposes. It is remarkable, also, that 'the Medes' are mentioned here many years before they became a separate and independent nation. It was elsewhere predicted that the Medes would be employed in this siege of Babylon; thus, in Isaiah 21:2:
- 'Go up, O Elam (that is, Persia), besiege, O Media;'
- Jeremiah 51:11 :
- 'Jehovah hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his device is against Babylon to destroy it.'
- Medes or "Media" was a country east of Assyria, which is supposed to have been populated by the descendants of Madai, son of Japheth Genesis 10:2, as also observed by Josephus.[8] Ancient Media extended on the west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Armenia, on the north, to Faristan or Persia proper, on the south.[9][10]
See also
- Related Bible parts: Genesis 10, Jeremiah 51, Daniel 5
Notes and references
- ↑ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
- ↑ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
- ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
- ↑ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah
- ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
- ↑ Isaiah 13:7
- ↑ Antiqu. Jud. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1
- ↑ Barnes, Albert. Notes on the Old Testament. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.
- ↑ Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
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