Isaiah 6

Isaiah 6
The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran dated c 100-340 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 6 is the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.[1][2] It records the calling of Isaiah to be the messenger of God to the people of Israel.

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Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

Verse 1

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.[4]

Cross reference: 2 Chronicles 26:16-21 The date of the death of Uzziah has been estimated as around 740 BCE.[5][6] Archaeologist William F. Albright dated Uzziah's reign to 783 – 742 BCE.

Verse 8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,
Whom shall I send,
and who will go for us?
Then said I,
Here am I; send me.[7]

Verse 13

“But yet a tenth will be in it,
And will return and be for consuming,
As a terebinth tree or as an oak,
Whose stump remains when it is cut down.
So the holy seed shall be its stump.” (NKJV)[8]

Cross reference: Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 53:2; Jeremiah 23:5

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. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Isaiah 6:1
  5. ↑ Edwin R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings (3rd ed.; Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983) 217
  6. ↑ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges on Isaiah 6, accessed 11 March 2018
  7. ↑ Isaiah 6:8
  8. ↑ Isaiah 6:13

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