Category: Daily Bible Readings

Isaiah 9:1-7.  If you remember my description of the structure or layout of this first part of Isaiah I said that chapters 2-12 form a unit.  The book is a collection of “sermons” or messages that Isaiah gave at different times and places.  He obviously collected them together and arranged them later in his life Read more

Isaiah 8:1-22.  In chapter 8 we continue the description about the destruction of Judah that is going to come, not from Syria and the northern kingdom but from Assyria.  The destruction will ultimately not be complete, Jerusalem will stand but only due to repentance and only for a time.  That brief time of peace will Read more