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Daniel K. Anim   The book of Isaiah Isaiah was a prophet documented by the account of creation of Isaiah to have lived around the time of the Kingdom of Judah.The relationships between the Book of Isaiah and any other book in the bible, Isaiah is one of the most complicated book in the bible. Right after the end of the deportations in Babylon, almost two centuries after the time of the original prophet.Jews and Christians consider the Book of Isaiah a part of their standard rule.The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah specified certain things will happen during the royal of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah . Uzziah's rule as king was 52 years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC. Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's rule as king, and may have been modern for some years with Manasseh.Isaiah may have predicted what will happen in the future for as long as 64 years.Isaiah's wife was called "prophetess", either because she established different things with the prophetic gift, like Deborah and Huldah, or simply because she was the "wife of the prophet" . The second interpretation was that it was simply an honor. They had two sons, naming one Shear-Jashub, meaning "A remnant shall return" and the younger, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, meaning, "Spoil quickly, plunder speedily." The book of Isaiah, along with the book of Jeremiah, is distinctive in the Hebrew bible for its direct painting of the " the Lord" as presented, for example, in Isaiah 9:19 stating, "Through the wrath of the Lord rage of hosts is the darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire."In early youth, Isaiah may have been moved by the invasion of Israel by the Assyrian monarch Tiglath-Pileser III and again, twenty years later, when he had already entered his office, by the invasion of Tiglath-Pileser and his career of defeat. Ahaz, king of Judah, at this crisis refused to co-operate with the kings of Israel and Syria in opposition to the Assyrians, and was on that account attacked and defeated by Rezin of Damascus and Pekah of Israel . Humbled, Ahaz sided with Assyria and sought the aid of Tiglath-Pileser against Israel and Syria. The consequence was that Rezin and Pekah were conquered and many of the people carried captive to Assyria .
Soon after this, Shalmaneser V determined to overcome the kingdom of Israel, Samaria was taken and destroyed . So long as Ahaz reigned, the kingdom of Judah was unmolested by the Assyrian power; but on his accession to the throne, Hezekiah, who was encouraged to rebel "against the king of Assyria", entered into an alliance with the king of Egypt . This led the king of Assyria to threaten the king of Judah, and at length to invade the land. Sennacherib led a powerful army into Judah. Hezekiah was reduced to despair, and submitted to the Assyrians . But after a brief interval war broke out again. Again Sennacherib led an army into Judah, one detachment of which threatened Jerusalem . Isaiah on that occasion encouraged Hezekiah to resist the Assyrians, whereupon Sennacherib sent a threatening letter to Hezekiah, which he "spread before the LORD" .
According to the account in 2 Kings 19 the judgment of God now fell on the Assyrian army and wiped out 185,000 of its men. "Like Xerxes in Greece, Sennacherib never recovered from the shock of the disaster in Judah. He made no more expeditions against either the Southern Levant or Egypt."
The remaining years of Hezekiah's reign were peaceful . Isaiah probably lived to its close, and possibly into the reign of Manasseh, but the time and manner of his death are not specified in either the Bible or recorded history. There is a tradition in Rabbinic literature that he suffered martyrdom by Manasseh.
In Christianity
Gregory of Nyssa, believed that the Prophet Isaiah "knew more perfectly than all others the mystery of the religion of the Gospel".