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Isaiah 2:1-22

Isaiah: God controls the nations

Isaiah declares how God’s people should be living

Isaiah Chapter s 1 to 9

Norman Hillyer

Chapter 2

God’s ideal plan for Israel

v1 A special message about Judah and *Jerusalem that God gave to Isaiah. v2 God’s *Temple stands on a mountain now. But the day is coming when that mountain will be the greatest of all mountains. And the *Temple will attract every nation to come to it. v3 Many peoples will come. Everyone will be saying, ‘Let us go to the *Lord’s mountain and *worship in his *Temple there. And we will obey his instructions.’ In those days God will rule all the nations from *Jerusalem. v4 The *Lord will settle arguments between nations. People will change swords into ploughs, and all tools for war into tools for peace. Nations will not attack each other any more. Nor will they train for war. v5 People in Israel, let us live in the way that the *Lord shows us.

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