In the 14th year of King Hezekiah’s reign (713 BC), King Sennacherib of Assyria came against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them (2...
Isaiah
Isaiah 37: A Day of Prayer and a Day of Deliverance
This chapter contains a continuation of the historical narrative that was commenced in the previous chapter. After Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah...
Isaiah 36: A Loud Mouthed Bragger
In this and the three following chapters, Isaiah becomes not only a prophet, but also a historian; for the Scripture’s history – as well as its...
Isaiah 35: The Ransomed Ones Shall Return!
This beautiful chapter is evidently a continuation of the previous one. As we have often remarked in our study of the Book of Isaiah, God’s...
Isaiah 34: The Lord’s Sword Against His Enemies
In this chapter, we read of the fatal doom of all the nations that are enemies to God’s people. The reason why Edom (Idumea) is the only nation...
Isaiah 33: Wide Rivers and Streams
In order to rightly understand this chapter, we must trace out the speakers and the persons spoken to in the different verses. The first verse...
Isaiah 32: Righteousness and Peace
Isaiah 32 Part 1 In this chapter, it seems that Isaiah had a primary reference to King Hezekiah. In the first eight verses, he describes the...
Isaiah 31: Trusting in Horses and Chariots?
It is evident that this chapter was composed at about the same time as the preceding one, and it relates to the same subject. The general theme...
Isaiah 30: In Quietness and Confidence is Strength!
In order to understand this prophecy, we must refer to the history of the period. Wicked King Ahaz had died, and his son Hezekiah had succeeded...
Isaiah 29: The Bible – A Sealed Book?
The “woe to Ariel,” with which this chapter opens, is directed against the same target as the “burden of the valley of vision” in chapter 22 –...
Isaiah 28: A Precious Cornerstone
Isaiah 28 Part 1 This chapter opens a new prophecy, which seems to have been given while the Kingdom of Israel (sometimes referred to as...
Isaiah 27: God is the Keeper of His Vineyard
Here we find the same delightful subject continued from the last two chapters – namely, the Lord’s care for His Church, and the destruction of...
Isaiah 26: Perfect Peace and Everlasting Strength
This chapter is a song of holy joy and praise, which celebrates the great things which God had promised to do in the foregoing chapter for His...
Isaiah 25: A Rich Feast for Hungry Souls!
This is a most precious chapter to the child of God – especially after reading the last one, which spoke of terrible judgments upon the earth....
Isaiah 24: The Burden of the Whole Earth
Here begins a new sermon, which is continued to the end of the 27th chapter. And according to the directions which the prophet had received, he...
Isaiah 23: The Burden of Tyre
Tyre was the chief city of the kingdom of Phoenicia, which lay on the Mediterranean seacoast to the north of the land of Canaan. Its...
Isaiah 22: A Bad Boy in Hezekiah’s Palace
This chapter is made up of two separate prophecies. The first comprises the first fourteen verses, and is addressed to the city of Jerusalem....
Isaiah 21: Against Babylon, Edom, and Arabia
Isaiah 21 Part 1 We had one prophecy against Babylon before, in chapter 13; and here we have another prediction of its fall. God saw fit to...
Isaiah 20: A King Who Never Existed?
As the King of nations, the Lord God here predicts a sore calamity upon Egypt and Ethiopia; but as the King of saints, He brings good to His...
Isaiah 19: Against Egypt
Most of us know at least a little about the land of Egypt. It was that country to the southwest of the land of Canaan, where Joseph was sold as...