ISAIAH 9:8 TO ISAIAH 10:4. YAHWEH SMITES EPHRAIM WITH STROKE AFTER
STROKE. It is generally agreed that Isaiah 5:26 formed the closing
strophe of this poem (p. 440). The date is probably before the
coalition of Syria and Ephraim (Isaiah 9:11 f.), _i.e._ between 740
and 735. It is one of Isaiah's earl... [ Continue Reading ]
ASSYRIA'S BOASTFULNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This prophecy, so far as it
is Isaiah's, must be later than the capture of Carchemish in 717 and
before Sennacherib's invasion in 701. Narrower limits cannot be fixed.
Non-Isaianic material appears to be present in it.
ISAIAH 10:5. Assyria is Yahweh's rod... [ Continue Reading ]