Isaiah 28

Isaiah 28
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 28 is the twenty-eighth 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 a part of the Book of the Prophets.[1][2] The Jerusalem Bible groups chapters 28-35 together as a collection of "poems on Israel and Judah".[3]

Text

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

  • Masoretic Text (10th century)
  • Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC) [4]
    • 1QIsaa: complete
    • 1QIsab: extant: verses 15‑19, 28‑29
    • 4QIsaf (4Q60): extant: verses 6‑9, 16‑18, 22, 28‑29
    • 4QIsak (4Q64): extant: verses 26‑29

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Structure

The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:

Verse 16

Therefore thus saith the Lord God,
Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone,
a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation:
he that believeth shall not make haste.[5]

Parable of the farmer

Verses 23-29 constitute a parable or mashal drawn from the "wisdom of the countryman" [6] Keil and Delitzsch state that in this passage Isaiah "proves himself a master of the mashal".[7] He first of all claims the attention of his audience as a teacher of wisdom, next shares his illustration from the approach of the farmer, then "leaves his hearers to interpret and apply the parable themselves".[7]

See also

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. ↑ Jerusalem Bible (1966), Isaiah section E: Poems on Israel and Judah
  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 28:16: King James Version
  6. ↑ Jerusalem Bible (1966), sub-heading to Isaiah 28:23-29
  7. 1 2 Keil and Delitzsch OT Commentary] on Isaiah 28, accessed 21 April 2018

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Christian

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