1 Isaiah

Question 1

1. Which chapters are in 1st Isaiah?
2. Is there a temple?
3. Are they pre/in/after exile?

Answer 1

1. 39. It is Isaiah 1-39.
2. Yes. There is a temple because this is before destruction (before exile).
3. Pre-exile.During the Assyrian kingdom and Isiaiah speaks to them before exile.

Question 2

What is Isaiah I writing style of the first five chapters?

Answer 2

Primarily Hebrew poetry (like proverbs) 1-5.

Question 3

Under whose reign was the initial prophecy on?

Answer 3

The initial prophecy was given during Uzziah’s reign.

Question 4

This book was critical of who?

Answer 4

Heavily critical of Judah.

Question 5

The order of 1st Isiaiah is what?

Answer 5

It is chronological.

Question 6

In chapters 6-8, what is the style change? It goes from __ to ___.

Answer 6

In 6–8, there is a switch from poetry to prose narrative. Isaiah’s memoir. It is told from the first-person point of view (isaiah’s). Isaiah 6 is when the decision has been made. God has decided Israelites are going to be exiled. Now their minutes are dull and Assyrians are marching.

Question 7

In Isaiah 7 which idea is exalted?

Answer 7

In Isaiah 7, the idea of a remnant is exalted. A remnant will return. God will always leave a remnant behind.

Question 8

Who is born in Isaiah? What does his name mean?
What does this child’s birth symbolize?

Answer 8

In Isaiah 7, “Immanuel” is born. His name means, “God is with us.”

It is in the here and now. The child Immanuel is a timer. By the time that Emmanuel is able to speak, the prophecy will be fulfilled.

Question 9

In Isaiah 8, we are introduced to who?
What is his name?

Answer 9

In Isaiah 8, Isaiah’s son: Maher-shaalal-hash-baz is mentioned

Question 10

What do both of the kids (the child born in Is 7 and the child mentioned in Is 8) have in common?

Answer 10

Both Immanuel and Maher relate to Israel.
Both relate to Assyria.
They both tell the immediate situation of Israel and simultaneously what is to come. Events will happen timed with their existence.

Question 11

In Isaiah 9-12, what style does the text have?

Answer 11

In chapters 9-12 the text is back to poetry. I am not sure about this part but… a devouring fire is coming. Someone special.

Question 12

Isaiah is part of which group of?

Answer 12

1st of the literary prophets

Question 13

What two types of prophets are there?

Answer 13

Literary and narrative prophets

Question 14

When was Isaiah 1-12 written?

Answer 14

Before exile / pre-exilic

Question 15

What does this book attest? What is this book used for?

Answer 15

Seen as another witness to Christ

Question 16

What do some people say about this text?

Answer 16

Some say it is like the fifth gospel

Question 17

What does Isaiah’s book do?

Answer 17

Isaiah points forward to Christ.

Question 18

Who points to this text?
When?
And for what cause?

Answer 18

Some outside references to 1st Isaiah include that of Pope Paul the 6th in 1967, the vatican call in populurum progresio.

There is a social justice message. We have to look after the poor, the widows, and the orphans.

He references the health of Israel being determined by how they are treating the list. If Israel is not healthy, it is because they have neglected the group. If Israel is in good shape, it is because they are looking after the listed

Question 19

What is happening in the two divided kingdoms at this time?

Answer 19

Assyria already taken in Northern Kingdom (721 Assyria conquers samaria)

Question 20

What did Babylon do in first Isaiah?

Answer 20

Babylon gathered big army

Question 21

What does Assyria do in first Isaiah?

Answer 21

701 Sennacherib (Assyria) conquers Judah BUT fails to take jerusalem

Question 22

Which river is Nineveh/Assyria on?

Answer 22

Nineveh/Assyria on Tigris River (modern day Iraq)

Question 23

When and who takes over Nineveh, Assyrian empire?

Answer 23

612 BCE Babylonians take over Nineveh, Assyrian Empire

Question 23

Which river is Babylonian Empire on?

Answer 23

Babylonian Empire on Euphrates River

Question 24

How many waves where there to take over Judah?

Answer 24

2 waves to take Judah

Question 25

Who is executed in the first wave of Babylinian exile?

Answer 25

In the 1st wave only the poorest. Babylons thar are rich are exiled.

Question 26

When did the first wave of executions happen?

Answer 26

1st wave happened in 597

Question 26

When and what happened in the second wave of execution?

Answer 26

2nd Wave: 586 Destruction of Jerusalem and Judean Exiles

Question 26

Who do Babylon fall to? And when?

Answer 26

Baylon fell to Cyrus the Persian in 539. (But persians want to give Jews what they want so they become better subjects)

Question 27

What does the empire that conquered Babylon do to Jews? When?

Answer 27

In 538, Cyrus allowed Jews to return to Jeruslaem (Greeks then conquer Persians with Alexander the Great)

Question 28

What happens to the northern kingdom after they were conquered?

Answer 28

10 tribes of the Northern kingdom get lost

Question 29

Isaiah I was born in which kingdom? Which chapters? Which years? Who is Isaiah speaking to? Who is one of the two kings?

Answer 29

In 1 Isaiah chapters 1-39 it is during the Assyrian kingdom 736-701 bce. Isaiah speaks to Israel before exile. Hezekiah is one of two kings.