Isaiah 17

Isaiah 17
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book Book of Isaiah
Bible part Old Testament
Order in the Bible part 23
Category Nevi'im

Isaiah 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets.[1][2] The New King James Version describes this chapter as a "proclamation against Syria and Israel".[3]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

The burden of Damascus.
Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city,
and it shall be a ruinous heap.[5]

Verse 2

The cities of Aroer are forsaken [6]

In the Septuagint, the wording is abandoned for ever, referring to Damascus (from verse 1), not Aroer in Moab.[7] Anglican Bishop Robert Lowth preferred to use the Septuagint translation: "What has Aroer ... on the river Arnon, (see Deuteronomy 2:36) to do with Damascus?” [8] Hugo Grotius, however, thought the Hebrew text was correct, and that this Aroer was a tract of ground in Syria.[8]


See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
  2. ↑ Theodore Hiebert, et al. 1996. The New Interpreter's Bible: Volume VI. Nashville: Abingdon.
  3. ↑ Subtitle to New King James Version, Isaiah 17
  4. ↑ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Tov (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
  5. ↑ Isaiah 17:1
  6. ↑ Isaiah 17:2
  7. ↑ Isaiah 17:2 - Brenton's Septuagint Translation
  8. 1 2 Benson Commentary on Isaiah 17, accessed 31 March 2018

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