The New Testament interprets verse 7 – “led like a lamb to the slaughter” as speaking of Jesus who was crucified. The New Testament makes references to the, ‘lamb’ in other places too: When the man from Ethiopia was reading this chapter as he rode home in his chariot, he was puzzled as to whom this “lamb” might be. He […]
The early chapters of Isaiah include a call to walk in the light of the Lord, and make three strong statements about light and darkness. “Come, house of Jacob, let us walk in the light of the Lord”(Isaiah 2:5). “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light […]
The New Testament interprets the voice in the wilderness mentioned in Isaiah as a reference to John the Baptist. According to Matthew 3:1-3: In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.” This is he who was spoken of through […]
There are clear parallels between the way the Hebrew Bible in Isaiah 7:14 and the New Testament in Matthew 1:23, describe this event. In Isaiah as quoted by Matthew, “Behold, the virgin shall be with child and shall bear a Son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”(Matthew 1:23). The Virgin Birth: Isaiah says, “I approached the prophetess and […]
Isaiah was an 8th century BC prophet. The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah , Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah (Isaiah 1:1). Uzziah’s reign was 52 years in the middle of the 8th century BCE, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a […]
A severe drought gripped Israel in 1985 and 1986. The winter rains barely came. Water was pumped from the Sea of Galilee to irrigate parched fields throughout the country. Predictably, the Kinneret (the Hebrew name of the freshwater inland lake also known as the Sea of Galilee) shrank. Wide expanses of lakebed, normally covered with […]
It was at a party sponsored by the University of Paris in June 1984. We were chatting about nothing in particular when a friend of my husband’s mentioned that he had recently seen some Phoenician antiquities at the home of a Paris collector, more specifically a beautiful ring containing a seal that appeared to have […]
Seldom does archaeology come face to face with people actually mentioned in the Bible. When that happens, the discovery takes on a unique immediacy, touched with awe. When a hoard of inscribed Hebrew bullae surfaced on the antiques market and was found to contain a bulla impressed with the name of Baruch, son of Neriah, […]
2 Kings 24-15 15 And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon. 2 Kings 25-27–30 27 And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity […]
