ISAIAH%20CHAPTER%20FOURTEEN

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER FOURTEEN

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ASSYRIAN EMPIRE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? SAMARIA DESTROYED - ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NINEVEH DESTROYED (606BC)?
BABYLONIAN EMPIRE NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? TEMPLE DESTROYED - JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (562-539BC)?
MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE CYRUS (539-530BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? ZERUBBABEL REBUILDS THE TEMPLE (538-520BC)? DARIUS (521-486BC)? AHASUERUS (486-464BC)? ARTAXERXES (464-424BC)? NEHEMIAH REBUILDS WALLS OF JERUSALEM (444BC)?
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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (800-750BC)? AMOS (786-746BC)? JOEL (770BC)? MICAH (750-686BC)? HOSEA (748-690BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (663-612BC)? ZEPHANIAH (640-609BC)? HABAKKUK (627BC)? JEREMIAH (626-586BC)? OBADIAH (605BC)? DANIEL (604-555BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? MALACHI (542-516BC)? HAGGAI (538-520BC)? ZECHARIAH (520-480BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? BELSHAZZAR (562-539BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? CYRUS (539-530BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (521-486BC)?
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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER FOURTEEN

• MERCY ON JACOB V. 1-2
• FALL OF THE KING OF BABYLON V. 3-11
• THE FALL OF LUCIFER V. 12-21
• BABYLON DESTROYED V. 22-23
• ASSYRIA DESTROYED V. 24-27
• PHILISTIA DESTROYED V. 28-32

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READ ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.
• WHY WILL THE LORD STILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB?
• WHO WILL STRANGERS JOIN? WHY?
• WHO WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TAKE CAPTIVE?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHY WILL THE LORD STILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB?
• READ PSALMS 10213-22
• 13 You will arise and have mercy on Zion For the
  time to favor her, Yes, the set time, has come.
• 14 Your servants take pleasure in her stones, And
  show favor to her dust.
• 15 The nations shall fear the name of the LORD,
  And all the kings of the earth Your glory.
• 16 The LORD shall build up Zion He shall appear
  in His glory.
• 17 He shall regard the prayer of the destitute,
  And shall not despise their prayer.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHY WILL THE LORD STILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB?
• READ PSALMS 10213-22
• 18 This will be written for the generation to
  come, That a people yet to be created may praise
  the LORD.
• 19 He looked down from the height of His
  sanctuary From heaven the LORD viewed the earth,
  
• 20 To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To
  release those appointed to death,
• 21 To declare the name of the LORD in Zion, And
  His praise in Jerusalem,
• 22 When the peoples are gathered together, And
  the kingdoms, to serve the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHY WILL THE LORD STILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB?
• READ JEREMIAH 3323-26
• 23 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, saying,
• 24 "Have you not considered what these people
  have spoken, saying, 'The two families which the
  LORD has chosen, He has also cast them off'? Thus
  they have despised My people, as if they should
  no more be a nation before them.
• 25 "Thus says the LORD 'If My covenant is not
  with day and night, and if I have not appointed
  the ordinances of heaven and earth,
• 26 Then I will cast away the descendants of Jacob
  and David My servant, so that I will not take any
  of his descendants to be rulers over the
  descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I
  will cause their captives to return, and I will
  have mercy on them.'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHY WILL THE LORD STILL HAVE MERCY ON JACOB?
• READ JEREMIAH 318
• 18 "In those days the house of Judah shall walk
  with the house of Israel, and they shall come
  together out of the land of the north to the land
  that I have given as an inheritance to your
  fathers. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 1615
• 14 Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD,
  "that it shall no more be said, 'The LORD lives
  who brought up the children of Israel from the
  land of Egypt,
• 15 But, 'The LORD lives who brought up the
  children of Israel from the land of the north and
  from all the lands where He had driven them.' For
  I will bring them back into their land which I
  gave to their fathers. NKJV
• (JEREMIAH 237-8)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHO WILL STRANGERS JOIN? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 4721-23
• 21 "You shall divide this land among yourselves
  according to the tribes of Israel.
• 22 It shall be that you will divide it by lot as
  an inheritance for yourselves, and for the
  strangers who dwell among you and who bear
  children among you. They shall be to you as
  native-born among the children of Israel they
  shall have an inheritance with you among the
  tribes of Israel.
• 23 And it shall be that in whatever tribe the
  stranger dwells, there you shall give him his
  inheritance," says the Lord GOD.
• NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHO WILL STRANGERS JOIN? WHY?
• READ ZECHARIAH 210-13
• 10 "Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For
  behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your
  midst," says the LORD.
• 11 "Many nations shall be joined to the LORD in
  that day, and they shall become My people. And I
  will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that
  the LORD of hosts has sent Me to you.
• 12 The LORD will take possession of Judah as His
  inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again
  choose Jerusalem.
• 13 Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD, for He
  is aroused from His holy habitation!" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHO WILL STRANGERS JOIN? WHY?
• READ ZECHARIAH 820-22
• 20 Thus says the LORD of hosts 'Peoples shall
  yet come,
• Inhabitants of many cities
• 21 The inhabitants of one city shall go to
  another, saying,
• "Let us continue to go and pray before the LORD,
  And seek the LORD of hosts. I myself will go
  also."
• 22 Yes, many peoples and strong nations Shall
  come to seek the LORD of hosts in Jerusalem, And
  to pray before the LORD.'
• NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 1 The LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will
  still choose Israel, and settle them in their own
  land. The strangers will be joined with them, and
  they will cling to the house of Jacob.
• WHO WILL STRANGERS JOIN? WHY?
• READ EPHESIANS 213
• 11 Remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh
  who are called Un-circumcision by what is
  called the Circumcision made in the flesh by
  hands
• 12 That at that time you were without Christ,
  being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and
  strangers from the covenants of promise, having
  no hope and without God in the world.
• 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far
  off have been brought near by the blood of
  Christ. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.
• WHO WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TAKE CAPTIVE?
• READ PSALMS 1495-9
• 5 Let the saints be joyful in glory Let them
  sing aloud on their beds.
• 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth,
  And a two-edged sword in their hand,
• 7 To execute vengeance on the nations, And
  punishments on the peoples
• 8 To bind their kings with chains, And their
  nobles with fetters of iron
• 9 To execute on them the written judgment This
  honor have all His saints. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.
• WHO WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TAKE CAPTIVE?
• READ JEREMIAH 3016
• 16 All those who devour you shall be devoured
  And all your adversaries, every one of them,
  shall go into captivity Those who plunder you
  shall become plunder, And all who prey upon you I
  will make a prey. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 492
• 2 Behold, the days are coming," says the LORD,
  "That I will cause to be heard an alarm of war In
  Rabbah of the Ammonites
• It shall be a desolate mound, And her villages
  shall be burned with fire. Then Israel shall take
  possession of his inheritance," says the LORD.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.
• WHO WILL THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL TAKE CAPTIVE?
• READ EZEKIEL 399-10
• 9 "Those who dwell in the cities of Israel will
  go out and set on fire and burn the weapons, both
  the shields and bucklers, the bows and arrows,
  the javelins and spears and they will make fires
  with them for seven years.
• 10 They will not take wood from the field nor cut
  down any from the forests, because they will make
  fires with the weapons and they will plunder
  those who plundered them, and pillage those who
  pillaged them," says the Lord GOD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.
• WHAT DID CYRUS, KING OF PERSIA, SAY?
• READ EZRA 13-4
• 3 Who is among you of all His people? May his God
  be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem which
  is in Judah, and build the house of the LORD God
  of Israel (He is God), which is in Jerusalem.
• 4 Whoever is left in any place where he dwells,
  let the men of his place help him with silver and
  gold, with goods and livestock, besides the
  freewill offerings for the house of God which is
  in Jerusalem. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 141-2

• 2 Then people will take them and bring them to
  their place, and the house of Israel will possess
  them for servants and maids in the land of the
  LORD they will take them captive whose captives
  they were, and rule over their oppressors.
• WHAT DID ARTAXERXES, KING OF PERSIA, SAY?
• READ EZRA 721-23
• 21 I, even I, Artaxerxes the king, issue a
  decree to all the treasurers who are in the
  region beyond the River, that whatever Ezra the
  priest, the scribe of the Law of the God of
  heaven, may require of you, let it be done
  diligently,
• 22 Up to one hundred talents of silver, one
  hundred kors of wheat, one hundred baths of wine,
  one hundred baths of oil, and salt without
  prescribed limit.
• 23 Whatever is commanded by the God of heaven,
  let it diligently be done for the house of the
  God of heaven. Why should there be wrath against
  the realm of the king and his sons? NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 143-5

• 3 It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives
  you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and
  the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,
• 4 That you will take up this proverb against the
  king of Babylon, and say "How the oppressor has
  ceased, The golden city ceased!
• 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
  The scepter of the rulers

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 3 It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives
  you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and
  the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,
• 4 That you will take up this proverb against the
  king of Babylon, and say "How the oppressor has
  ceased, The golden city ceased!
• 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
  The scepter of the rulers
• WHAT IS THE LORD WANTING GIVE TO HIS PEOPLE?
• WHY DID THEY FIND NO REST?
• WHAT WAS THE PROVERB ABOUT THE KING OF BABYLON?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THIS KING?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 3 It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives
  you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and
  the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,
• WHAT IS THE LORD WANTING GIVE TO HIS PEOPLE?
• WHY DID THEY FIND NO REST?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2864-66
• 64 "The LORD will scatter you among all peoples,
  from one end of the earth to the other, and there
  you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor
  your fathers have known wood and stone.
• 65 Among those nations you shall find no rest,
  nor shall the sole of your foot have a resting
  place but there the LORD will give you a
  trembling heart, failing eyes, and anguish of
  soul.
• 66 Your life shall hang in doubt before you you
  shall fear day and night, and have no assurance
  of life. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 3 It shall come to pass in the day the LORD gives
  you rest from your sorrow, and from your fear and
  the hard bondage in which you were made to serve,
• WHAT IS THE LORD WANTING GIVE TO HIS PEOPLE?
• WHEN WILL THIS HAPPEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 2825-26
• 25 'Thus says the Lord GOD "When I have gathered
  the house of Israel from the peoples among whom
  they are scattered, and I am hallowed in them in
  the sight of the Gentiles, then they will dwell
  in their own land which I gave to My servant
  Jacob.
• 26 And they will dwell safely there, build
  houses, and plant vineyards yes, they will dwell
  securely, when I execute judgments on all those
  around them who despise them. Then they shall
  know that I am the LORD their God."'" NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 4 That you will take up this proverb against the
  king of Babylon, and say "How the oppressor has
  ceased, The golden city ceased!
• 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
  The scepter of the rulers
• WHAT WAS THE PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON?
• READ JEREMIAH 517
• 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the LORDS hand,
  That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank
  her wine Therefore the nations are deranged.
  NKJV
• WHO WAS THIS KING OF BABYLON? NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• READ DANIEL 232-38

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• READ DANIEL 232-38
• 32 This image's head was of fine gold, its chest
  and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of
  bronze,
• 33 Its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and
  partly of clay.
• 34 You watched while a stone was cut out without
  hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron
  and clay, and broke them in pieces.
• 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the
  silver, and the gold were crushed together, and
  became like chaff from the summer threshing
  floors the wind carried them away so that no
  trace of them was found. And the stone that
  struck the image became a great mountain and
  filled the whole earth.
• 36 "This is the dream. Now we will tell the
  interpretation of it before the king.
• 37 You, O king, are a king of kings. For the God
  of heaven has given you a kingdom, power,
  strength, and glory
• 38 And wherever the children of men dwell, or the
  beasts of the field and the birds of the heaven,
  He has given them into your hand, and has made
  you ruler over them all you are this head of
  gold.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 4 That you will take up this proverb against the
  king of Babylon, and say "How the oppressor has
  ceased, The golden city ceased!
• 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
  The scepter of the rulers
• WHAT WAS THE PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON?
• READ MICAH 24
• 4 In that day one shall take up a proverb against
  you, And lament with a bitter lamentation,
  saying 'We are utterly destroyed!
• He has changed the heritage of my people How He
  has removed it from me! To a turncoat He has
  divided our fields.'" NKJV
• READ HABAKKUK 26
• 6 Will not all these take up a proverb against
  him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say,
  'Woe to him who increases
• What is not his how long? And to him who loads
  himself with many pledges'? NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 4 That you will take up this proverb against the
  king of Babylon, and say "How the oppressor has
  ceased, The golden city ceased!
• 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
  The scepter of the rulers
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THIS KING?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THE STAFF THE
  SCEPTOR?
• READ PSALMS 1101-2 PSALMS 1251-3

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 143-5

• 5 The LORD has broken the staff of the wicked,
  The scepter of the rulers
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO WITH THE STAFF THE
  SCEPTOR?
• READ PSALMS 1101-2
• 1 The LORD said to my Lord, "Sit at My right
  hand, Till I make Your enemies Your footstool."
• 2 The LORD shall send the rod of Your strength
  out of Zion.
• Rule in the midst of Your enemies! NKJV
• READ PSALMS 1251-3
• 1 Those who trust in the LORD Are like Mount
  Zion, Which cannot be moved, but abides forever.
• 2 As the mountains surround Jerusalem, So the
  LORD surrounds His people From this time forth
  and forever.
• 3 For the scepter of wickedness shall not rest On
  the land allotted to the righteous, Lest the
  righteous reach out their hands to iniquity.
  NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 146-8

• 6 He who struck the people in wrath with a
  continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in
  anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.
• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And
  the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were
  cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 6 He who struck the people in wrath with a
  continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in
  anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.
• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And
  the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were
  cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'
• WHO IS HE WHO STRUCK THE PEOPLE? TIGLATH-PILESER
  ?
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE SINGING?
• THE EARTH IS AT REST QUIET?
• WHY ARE THE TREES REJOICING?
• WHO IS THE WOODSMAN? SENNACHERIB?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 6 He who struck the people in wrath with a
  continual stroke, He who ruled the nations in
  anger, Is persecuted and no one hinders.
• WHO IS HE WHO STRUCK THE PEOPLE? TIGLATH-PILESER
  ?
• READ 2 KINGS 1529
• 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel,
  Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took
  Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,
  Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali
  and he carried them captive to Assyria. NKJV
• READ PSALMS 471-4
• 3 He will subdue the peoples under us, And the
  nations under our feet. NKJV
• READ HABAKKUK 115-17
• 17 Shall they therefore empty their net, And
  continue to slay nations without pity? NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE SINGING?
• THE EARTH IS AT REST QUIET?
• READ NUMBERS 626
• 26 The LORD lift up His countenance upon you And
  give you peace. NKJV
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 1631
• 31 Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be
  glad And let them say among the nations, The
  LORD reigns. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 5034
• 34 Their Redeemer is strong The LORD of hosts is
  His name.
• He will thoroughly plead their case That He may
  give rest to the land And disquiet the
  inhabitants of Babylon. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE SINGING?
• THE EARTH IS AT REST QUIET?
• READ ZECHARIAH 110-11
• 10 The man who stood among the myrtle trees
  answered and said, These are the ones whom the
  LORD has sent to walk to and fro throughout the
  earth.
• 11 They answered the Angel of the LORD, who stood
  among the myrtle trees and said, We have walked
  to and fro throughout the earth and behold, all
  the earth is resting quietly. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE SINGING?
• THE EARTH IS AT REST QUIET?
• READ PSALMS 3519-24
• 19 Let them not rejoice over me who are
  wrongfully my enemies Nor let them wink with the
  eye who hate me without a cause.
• 20 They do not speak peace But they devise
  deceitful matters Against the quiet ones in the
  land.
• 21 They also opened their mouth wide against me
  And said, Aha, aha! Our eyes have seen it.
• 22 This You have seen, O LORD Do not keep
  silence. O Lord, do not be far from me.
• 23 Stir up Yourself and awake to my vindication,
  To my cause, my God and my Lord.
• 24 Vindicate me, O LORD my God, according to Your
  righteousness And let them not rejoice over me.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE SINGING?
• THE EARTH IS AT REST QUIET?
• READ PSALMS 9611-13
• 11 Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be
  glad Let the sea roar and all its fullness
• 12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in
  it. Then all the trees of the woods will rejoice
  before the LORD.
• 13 He is coming, for He is coming to judge the
  earth. He shall judge the world with
  righteousness, And the peoples with His truth.
• READ PSALMS 981-3
• 1 Oh, sing to the LORD a new song! He has done
  marvelous things His right hand and His holy arm
  have gained Him the victory.
• 2 The LORD has made known His salvation His
  righteousness He has revealed in the sight of the
  nations.
• 3 He has remembered His mercy and His
  faithfulness to the house of Israel All the ends
  of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 7 The whole earth is at rest and quiet They
  break forth into singing.
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE SINGING?
• THE EARTH IS AT REST QUIET?
• READ PSALMS 987-9
• 7 Let the sea roar and all its fullness, The
  world and those who dwell in it
• 8 Let the rivers clap their hands Let the hills
  be joyful together before the LORD,
• 9 He is coming to judge the earth. With
  righteousness He shall judge the world And the
  peoples with equity. NKJV
• READ PSALMS 1261-3
• 1 When the LORD brought back the captivity of
  Zion, We were like those who dream.
• 2 Our mouth was filled with laughter And our
  tongue with singing. Then they said among the
  nations, The LORD has done great things for them.
  
• 3 The LORD has done great things for us And we
  are glad.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And
  the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were
  cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'
• WHY ARE THE TREES REJOICING?
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 1633
• 33 The trees of the woods shall rejoice before
  the LORD, For He is coming to judge the earth.
  NKJV
• READ PSALMS 1487-12
• 7 Praise the LORD from the earth, You great sea
  creatures and all the depths
• 8 Fire and hail, snow and clouds Stormy wind,
  fulfilling His word
• 9 Mountains and all hills Fruitful trees and all
  cedars
• 10 Beasts and all cattle Creeping things and
  flying fowl
• 11 Kings of the earth and all peoples Princes
  and all judges of the earth
• 12 Both young men and maidens Old men and
  children. NKJV

38
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 146-8

• 8 Indeed the cypress trees rejoice over you, And
  the cedars of Lebanon, Saying, 'Since you were
  cut down, No woodsman has come up against us.'
• WHY ARE THE TREES REJOICING?
• WHO IS THE WOODSMAN? SENNACHERIB?
• READ 1 KINGS 1920-21
• 20 Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah,
  saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel
  'Because you have prayed to Me against
  Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard.
• 21 This is the word which the LORD has spoken
  concerning him NKJV
• READ 2 KINGS 1923
• 23 By your messengers you have reproached the
  Lord, And said By the multitude of my chariots I
  have come up to the height of the mountains, To
  the limits of Lebanon I will cut down its tall
  cedars And its choice cypress trees I will enter
  the extremity of its borders, To its fruitful
  forest. NKJV

39
READ ISAIAH 149-11

• 9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To
  meet you at your coming It stirs up the dead for
  you, All the chief ones of the earth It has
  raised up from their thrones All the kings of the
  nations.
• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us? 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And
  the sound of your stringed instruments The
  maggot is spread under you, And worms cover you.'

40
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To
  meet you at your coming It stirs up the dead for
  you, All the chief ones of the earth It has
  raised up from their thrones All the kings of the
  nations.
• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us?
• 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the
  sound of your stringed instruments The maggot is
  spread under you, And worms cover you.'
• WHO IS HELL EXCITED ABOUT? SENNACHERIB?
• WHO IS STIRRED UP IN HELL?
• WHAT DID THEY ASK HIM? SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT IS SHEOL? HADES? THE ABODE OF THE DEAD?
• WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL?
• WHAT ARE THE MAGGOTS AMD WORMS DOING?

41
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To
  meet you at your coming It stirs up the dead for
  you, All the chief ones of the earth It has
  raised up from their thrones All the kings of the
  nations.
• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us?
• WHY IS HELL EXCITED ABOUT HIM? SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT IS SHEOL? HADES? THE ABODE OF THE DEAD?
• READ PROVERBS 3016
• 16 The grave, The barren womb, The earth that is
  not satisfied with water And the fire never
  says, Enough! NKJV
• WHY IS THE EARTH NEVER SATISFIED WITH WATER?
• WHY DOES ITS FIRE NEVER SAY ENOUGH?

42
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 9 "Hell from beneath is excited about you, To
  meet you at your coming It stirs up the dead for
  you, All the chief ones of the earth It has
  raised up from their thrones All the kings of the
  nations.
• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us?
• WHAT DID THEY ASK HIM? SENNACHERIB?
• WHO DID GOD CAST DOWN TO HELL? PRINCE OF TYRE?
• WHO DID THE LORD SEND AGAINST PRINCE OF TYRE?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• READ EZEKIEL 2620-21
• 20 I will bring you down with those who descend
  into the Pit, to the people of old, and I will
  make you dwell in the lowest part of the earth,
  in places desolate from antiquity, with those who
  go down to the Pit, so that you may never be
  inhabited and I shall establish glory in the
  land of the living.
• 21 I will make you a terror, and you shall be no
  more though you are sought for, you will never
  be found again, says the Lord GOD. NKJV

43
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us?
• WHAT DID THEY ASK SENNACHERIB?
• WHO DID THE LORD CAST DOWN TO HELL?
• ESARHADDON, KING OF BABYLON,?
• WHO DID THE LORD SEND AGAINST ESARHADDON?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• READ EZEKIEL 3116-17
• 16 I made the nations shake at the sound of its
  fall, when I cast it down to hell together with
  those who descend into the Pit and all the trees
  of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that
  drink water, were comforted in the depths of the
  earth.
• 17 They also went down to hell with it, with
  those slain by the sword and those who were its
  strong arm dwelt in its shadows among the
  nations. NKJV

44
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us?
• WHAT DID THEY ASK SENNACHERIB?
• WHO DID THE LORD CAST DOWN TO HELL?
• PHARAOH NECHO, KING OF EGYPT,?
• WHO DID THE LORD SEND AGAINST PHARAOH NECHO ?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• READ EZEKIEL 3218-21
• 18 Son of man, wail over the multitude of Egypt,
  And cast them down to the depths of the earth,
  Her and the daughters of the famous nations, With
  those who go down to the Pit
• 19 Whom do you surpass in beauty? Go down, be
  placed with the uncircumcised.
• 20 They shall fall in the midst of those slain by
  the sword She is delivered to the sword, Drawing
  her and all her multitudes.
• 21 The strong among the mighty Shall speak to him
  out of the midst of hell With those who help him
  They have gone down, They lie with the
  uncircumcised, slain by the sword. NKJV

45
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 10 They all shall speak and say to you 'Have you
  also become as weak as we? Have you become like
  us?
• WHAT DID THEY ASK SENNACHERIB?
• WHO DID THE LORD CAST DOWN TO HELL?
• PHARAOH NECHO, KING OF EGYPT,?
• WHO DID THE LORD SEND AGAINST PHARAOH NECHO ?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• READ EZEKIEL 3227
• 27 They do not lie with the mighty Who are fallen
  of the uncircumcised, Who have gone down to hell
  with their weapons of war They have laid their
  swords under their heads, But their iniquities
  will be on their bones, Because of the terror of
  the mighty in the land of the living. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the
  sound of your stringed instruments The maggot is
  spread under you, And worms cover you.'
• WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL?
• WHAT ARE THE MAGGOTS AND WORMS DOING?
• READ EZEKIEL 2613
• 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs,
  and the sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more. NKJV
• READ AMOS 63-5
• 3 Woe to you who put far off the day of doom, Who
  cause the seat of violence to come near
• 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, Stretch out on your
  couches,
• Eat lambs from the flock And calves from the
  midst of the stall
• 5 Who sing idly to the sound of stringed
  instruments, And invent for yourselves musical
  instruments like David NKJV

47
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 149-11

• 11 Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, And the
  sound of your stringed instruments The maggot is
  spread under you, And worms cover you.'
• WHAT IS BROUGHT DOWN TO SHEOL?
• WHAT ARE THE MAGGOTS AND WORMS DOING?
• READ JOB 75
• 5 My flesh is caked with worms and dust. My skin
  is cracked and breaks out afresh. NKJV
• READ JOB 2126
• 5 They lie down alike in the dust And worms cover
  them. NKJV

48
READ ISAIAH 1412-15

• 12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
  son of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations!
• 13 For you have said in your heart I will ascend
  into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
  stars of God I will also sit on the mount of the
  congregation On the farthest sides of the north
• 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
  I will be like the Most High.
• 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the
  lowest depths of the Pit.

49
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
  son of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations!
• 13 You have said in your heart I will ascend
  into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the
  stars of God I will also sit on the mount of the
  congregation On the farthest sides of the north
• 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
  I will be like the Most High.
• 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the
  lowest depths of the Pit.
• WHO IS LUCIFER? SATAN? DEVIL?
• WHEN DID HE FALL FROM HEAVEN?
• WHO IS LUCIFER? BELSHAZZAR? ANTIOCHUS
  EPIPHENES?
• WHEN WAS HE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND?
• WHAT DID HE SAY IN HIS HEART?
• YET, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM?

50
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
  son of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations!
• WHO IS LUCIFER? SATAN? DEVIL?
• WHEN DID HE FALL FROM HEAVEN?
• READ LUKE 1018
• 18 He said to them, I saw Satan fall like
  lightning from heaven.
• READ REVELATION 127-9
• 7 War broke out in heaven Michael and his angels
  fought with the dragon and the dragon and his
  angels fought
• 8 They did not prevail, nor was a place found for
  them in heaven any longer.
• 9 The great dragon was cast out, that serpent of
  old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the
  whole world he was cast to the earth, and his
  angels were cast out with him. NKJV

51
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
  son of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations!
• WHO IS LUCIFER? BELSHAZZAR?
• READ DANIEL 522-25
• 22 You his son, Belshazzar, have not humbled your
  heart, although you knew all this.
• 23 You have lifted yourself up against the Lord
  of heaven. They have brought the vessels of His
  house before you, and you and your lords, your
  wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from
  them. You have praised the gods of silver and
  gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, which do
  not see or hear or know and the God who holds
  your breath in His hand and owns all your ways,
  you have not glorified.
• 24 The fingers of the hand were sent from Him and
  this writing was written.
• 25 This is the inscription that was written
  MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. NKJV
• WHEN WAS HE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND?

52
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 12 "How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer,
  son of the morning! How you are cut down to the
  ground, You who weakened the nations!
• WHO IS LUCIFER? ANTIOCHUS EPIPHENES?
• READ DANIEL 88-11
• 8 The male goat grew very great but when he
  became strong, the large horn was broken, and in
  place of it four notable ones came up toward the
  four winds of heaven.
• 9 Out of one of them came a little horn which
  grew exceedingly great toward the south, toward
  the east, and toward the Glorious Land.
• 10 It grew up to the host of heaven and it cast
  down some of the host and some of the stars to
  the ground, and trampled them.
• 11 He even exalted himself as high as the Prince
  of the host and by him the daily sacrifices were
  taken away, and the place of His sanctuary was
  cast down. NKJV
• WHEN WAS HE CUT DOWN TO THE GROUND?

53
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
  I will be like the Most High.
• 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the
  lowest depths of the Pit.
• HOW WILL THE LORD JUDGE THESE MEN?
• READ PSALMS 821
• 1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty
  He judges among the gods. NKJV
• READ JOB 204-8
• 4 Do you not know this of old, Since man was
  placed on earth,
• 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short And
  the joy of the hypocrite is but for a moment?
• 6 Though his haughtiness mounts up to the
  heavens, And his head reaches to the clouds,
• 7 Yet he will perish forever like his own refuse
  Those who have seen him will say, Where is he?
• 8 He will fly away like a dream, and not be
  found Yes, he will be chased away like a vision
  of the night. NKJV

54
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
  I will be like the Most High.
• 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the
  lowest depths of the Pit.
• HOW WILL THE LORD JUDGE THESE MEN?
• READ OBADIAH 14
• 4 Though you ascend as high as the eagle And
  though you set your nest among the stars, From
  there I will bring you down, says the LORD.
  NKJV
• READ 2 THESSALONIANS 23-4
• 3 Let no one deceive you by any means for that
  Day will not come unless the falling away comes
  first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of
  perdition,
• 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that
  is called God or that is worshiped, so that he
  sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself
  that he is God. NKJV

55
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds,
  I will be like the Most High.
• 15 Yet you shall be brought down to Sheol, To the
  lowest depths of the Pit.
• YET, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM? ANTIOCHUS EPIPHENES?
• READ DANIEL 1136-37
• 36 The king shall do according to his own will
  he shall exalt and magnify himself above every
  god, he shall speak blasphemies against the God
  of gods, and shall prosper till the wrath has
  been accomplished for what has been determined
  shall be done.
• 37 He shall regard neither the God of his fathers
  nor the desire of women, nor regard any god for
  he shall exalt himself above them all. NKJV

56
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• WHAT HAPPENED TO BABYLON BELSHAZZAR?
• READ JEREMIAH 5029
• 29 Call together the archers against Babylon. All
  you who bend the bow, encamp against it all
  around Let none of them escape.
• Repay her according to her work According to all
  she has done, do to her For she has been proud
  against the LORD, Against the Holy One of Israel.
  NKJV
• JEREMIAH 516-8
• 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one
  save his life!
• Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is
  the time of the LORDS vengeance He shall
  recompense her.
• 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the LORDS hand,
  That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank
  her wine Therefore the nations are deranged.
• 8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed.
  Wail for her! Take balm for her pain Perhaps she
  may be healed. NKJV

57
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1412-15

• WHAT HAPPENED TO BABYLON BELSHAZZAR?
• READ JEREMIAH 5142-43
• 42 The sea has come up over Babylon She is
  covered with the multitude of its waves.
• 43 Her cities are a desolation, A dry land and a
  wilderness, A land where no one dwells, Through
  which no son of man passes.
• NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 5152-53
• 52 Behold, the days are coming, says the LORD,
  That I will bring judgment on her carved images,
  And throughout all her land the wounded shall
  groan.
• 53 Though Babylon were to mount up to heaven, And
  though she were to fortify the height of her
  strength, Yet from Me plunderers would come to
  her, says the LORD. NKJV

58
READ ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'

59
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'
• WHO IS GAZING AT HIM?
• WHAT ARE THEY SAYING?
• WHAT HAD THIS MAN DONE?

60
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THE WICKED?
• READ PSALMS 526-7
• 6 The righteous shall see and fear And shall
  laugh at him saying,
• 7 Here is the man who did not make God his
  strength. He trusted in the abundance of his
  riches And strengthened himself in his
  wickedness. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT PHAROAH?
• READ EXODUS 714
• 14 The LORD said to Moses Pharaoh's heart is
  hard. He Refuses to let the people go. NKJV

61
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'
• WHAT HAD TIGLATH-PILESER DONE?
• READ 2 KINGS 1529
• 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel,
  Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took
  Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,
  Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali
  and he carried them captive to Assyria. NKJV

62
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'
• WHAT HAD TIGLATH-PILESER DONE?
• SHALMANESER? SENNACHERIB? ESAR-HADDON?
• READ JEREMIAH 5033
• 33 Thus says the LORD of hosts The children of
  Israel were oppressed, Along with the children of
  Judah All who took them captive have held them
  fast They have refused to let them go. NKJV

63
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'
• WHAT HAPPENEDTO BABYLON?
• READ JEREMIAH 5022-24
• 22 A sound of battle is in the land, And of great
  destruction.
• 23 How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut
  apart and broken! How Babylon has become a
  desolation among the nations!
• I have laid a snare for you
• 24 You have indeed been trapped, O Babylon, And
  you were not aware You have been found and also
  caught, Because you have contended against the
  LORD. NKJV

64
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• 17 Who made the world as a wilderness And
  destroyed its cities, Who did not open the house
  of his prisoners?'
• WHAT WILL THE LORD SAY TO ZERUBBABEL?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD SHAKE?
• READ HAGGAI 24-7
• 4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel, says the LORD
  and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the
  high priest and be strong, all you people of the
  land, says the LORD, and work for I am with
  you, says the LORD of hosts.
• 5 According to the word that I covenanted with
  you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit
  remains among you do not fear!
• 6 Thus says the LORD of hosts Once more (it is
  a little while) I will shake heaven and earth,
  the sea and dry land
• 7 I will shake all nations, and they shall come
  to the Desire of All Nations, and I will fill
  this temple with glory, says the LORD of
  hosts. NKJV

65
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1416-17

• 16 "Those who see you will gaze at you, And
  consider you, saying 'Is this the man who made
  the earth tremble, Who shook kingdoms,
• WHAT WILL THE LORD SAY TO ZERUBBABEL?
• READ HAGGAI 221-23
• 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah,
  saying I will shake heaven and earth.
• 22 I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms I
  will destroy the strength of the Gentile
  kingdoms. I will overthrow the chariots
• And those who ride in them The horses and their
  riders shall come down, Every one by the sword of
  his brother.
• 23 In that day,' says the LORD of hosts, I will
  take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the son of
  Shealtiel,' says the LORD,'and will make you like
  a signet ring for I have chosen you,' says the
  LORD of hosts."
• NKJV

66
READ ISAIAH 1418-21

• 18 "All the kings of the nations, All of them,
  sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house
• 19 But you are cast out of your grave Like an
  abominable branch, Like the garment of those who
  are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go
  down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse
  trodden underfoot.
• 20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
  Because you have destroyed your land And slain
  your people. The brood of evildoers shall never
  be named.
• 21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of
  the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up
  and possess the land, And fill the face of the
  world with cities."

67
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• 18 "All the kings of the nations, All of them,
  sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house
• 19 But you are cast out of your grave Like an
  abominable branch, Like the garment of those who
  are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go
  down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse
  trodden underfoot.
• 20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
  Because you have destroyed your land And slain
  your people. The brood of evildoers shall never
  be named.
• 21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of
  the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up
  and possess the land, And fill the face of the
  world with cities."
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THESE KINGS?
• WHERE WERE THEY SLEEPING? BURIED?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE UNGODLY? ABOMINABLE?
• WHY SLAUGHTER THE CHILDREN?

68
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• 18 "All the kings of the nations, All of them,
  sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house
• WHERE WERE THEY SLEEPING? BURIED?
• WHERE WERE THE KINGS OF ISRAEL BURIED?
• OF THE 22 KINGS WHO REIGNED IN JERUSALEM
• ONLY 11 WERE BURIED IN THE CITY OF DAVID
• IN THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS
• DAVID SOLOMON REHOBOAM ABIJAH ASA
• JEHOSHAPHAT AHAZIAH AMAZIAH JOTHAM
• HEZEKIAH JOSIAH

69
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• WHERE WERE THE KINGS OF ISRAEL BURIED?
• IN THE CITY OF DAVID IN THE TOMBS OF THE
  KINGS
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 1613-14
• 13 Asa rested with his fathers he died in the
  forty-first year of his reign.
• 14 They buried him in his own tomb, which he had
  made for himself in the City of David and they
  laid him in the bed which was filled with spices
  and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of
  ointments. They made a very great burning for
  him. NKJV

70
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• WHERE WERE THE KINGS OF ISRAEL BURIED?
• IN THE CITY OF DAVID IN THE TOMBS OF THE
  KINGS
• READ 2 KINGS 824
• 24 Joram rested with his fathers and was buried
  with his fathers in the City of David. Ahaziah
  his son reigned in his place.
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2120
• 20 Joram was thirty-two years old when he became
  king. He reigned in Jerusalem eight years and, to
  no one's sorrow, departed. They buried him in
  the City of David, but not in the tombs of the
  kings. NKJV

71
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• WHERE WERE THE KINGS OF ISRAEL BURIED?
• IN THE CITY OF DAVID IN THE TOMBS OF THE
  KINGS
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2424-25
• 24 The army of the Syrians came with a small
  company of men. But the LORD delivered a very
  great army into their hand, because they had
  forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. They
  executed judgment against Joash.
• 25 They withdrew from him and left him severely
  wounded, His own servants conspired against him
  because of the blood of the sons of Jehoiada the
  priest, and killed him on his bed. He died and
  they buried him in the City of David, but they
  did not bury him in the tombs of the kings.
  NKJV (2 KINGS 1220-21)

72
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• WHERE WERE THE KINGS OF ISRAEL BURIED?
• IN THE CITY OF DAVID IN THE TOMBS OF THE
  KINGS
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3233
• 33 Hezekiah rested with his fathers and they
  buried him in the upper tombs of the sons of
  David. All Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
  honored him at his death. Manasseh his son
  reigned in his place. NKJV
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3524
• 24 Josiahs servants took him out of that chariot
  and put him in the second chariot that he had,
  and they brought him to Jerusalem. He died and
  was buried in one of the tombs of his fathers.
  And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.
  NKJV

73
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• WHAT KINGS WERE NOT BURIED IN THE TOMBS OF THE
  KINGS?
• WHY?
• READ 1 KINGS 2117-19
• 17 The word of the LORD came to Elijah the
  Tishbite, saying,
• 18 Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel,
  who lives in Samaria. There he is, in the
  vineyard of Naboth, where he has gone down to
  take possession of it.
• 19 You shall speak to him, saying, Thus says
  the LORD Have you murdered and also taken
  possession? And you shall speak to him, saying,
  Thus says the LORD In the place where dogs
  licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your
  blood, even yours. "'" NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 2218-19
• 18 Thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the
  son of Josiah, king of Judah They shall not
  lament for him, Saying, Alas, my brother! or
  Alas, my sister! They shall not lament for him,
  Saying, Alas, master! or Alas, his glory!
• 19 He shall be buried with the burial of a
  donkey, Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of
  Jerusalem. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• WHAT KINGS WERE NOT BURIED IN THE TOMBS OF THE
  KINGS?
• WHY?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2623
• 23 Uzziah rested with his fathers, and they
  buried him with his fathers in the field of
  burial which belonged to the kings, for they
  said, He is a leper. Jotham his son reigned in
  his place. NKJV
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 2827
• 27 Ahaz rested with his fathers, and they buried
  him in the city, in Jerusalem but they did not
  bring him into the tombs of the kings of Israel.
  Hezekiah his son reigned in his place. NKJV

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• 18 "All the kings of the nations, All of them,
  sleep in glory, Everyone in his own house
• WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED?
• READ JOB 1817-19
• 17 The memory of him perishes from the earth And
  he has no name among the renowned.
• 18 He is driven from light into darkness And
  chased out of the world.
• 19 He has neither son nor posterity among his
  people Nor any remaining in his dwellings. NKJV
• READ JOB 2130-32
• 30 The wicked are reserved for the day of doom
  They shall be brought out on the day of wrath.
• 31 Who condemns his way to his face? And who
  repays him for what he has done?
• 32 Yet he shall be brought to the grave, And a
  vigil kept over the tomb. NKJV

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• 19 But you are cast out of your grave Like an
  abominable branch, Like the garment of those who
  are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go
  down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse
  trodden underfoot.
• 20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
  Because you have destroyed your land And slain
  your people. The brood of evildoers shall never
  be named.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THESE WICKED MEN? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 81-3
• READ JEREMIAH 3630-31
• READ EZEKIEL 295

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• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THESE WICKED MEN? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 81-3
• 1 At that time, says the LORD, they shall
  bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and
  the bones of its princes, and the bones of the
  priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the
  bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of
  their graves.
• 2 They shall spread them before the sun and the
  moon and all the host of heaven, which they have
  loved and which they have served and after which
  they have walked, which they have sought and
  which they have worshiped. They shall not be
  gathered nor buried they shall be like refuse on
  the face of the earth.
• 3 Death shall be chosen rather than life by all
  the residue of those who remain of this evil
  family, who remain in all the places where I have
  driven them, says the LORD of hosts. NKJV

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• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THESE WICKED MEN? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 3630-31
• 30 Thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king
  of Judah He shall have no one to sit on the
  throne of David and his dead body shall be cast
  out to the heat of the day and the frost of the
  night.
• 31 I will punish him, his family and his
  servants for their iniquity. I will bring on
  them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem and on the
  men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced
  against them but they did not heed. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 295
• 5 I will leave you in the wilderness, You and
  all the fish of your rivers You shall fall on
  the open field You shall not be picked up or
  gathered. I have given you as food To the beasts
  of the field And to the birds of the heavens.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• 21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of
  the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up
  and possess the land, And fill the face of the
  world with cities."
• WHY SLAUGHTER THE CHILDREN?
• WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS?
• READ EXODUS 204-6
• 4 You shall not make for yourself a carved image
  any likeness of anything that is in heaven
  above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that
  is in the water under the earth
• 5 You shall not bow down to them nor serve them.
  For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
  visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
  children to the third and fourth generations of
  those who hate Me,
• 6 But showing mercy to thousands, to those who
  love Me and keep My commandments. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1418-21

• 21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of
  the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up
  and possess the land, And fill the face of the
  world with cities."
• WHY SLAUGHTER THE CHILDREN?
• WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS?
• READ LEVITICUS 2638-39
• 38 You shall perish among the nations, and the
  land of your enemies shall eat you up.
• 39 Those of you who are left shall waste away in
  their iniquity in your enemies' lands Also in
  their fathers' iniquities, which are with them,
  they shall waste away. NKJV

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• 21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of
  the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up
  and possess the land, And fill the face of the
  world with cities."
• WHY SLAUGHTER THE CHILDREN?
• WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 3225-26
• 25 The sword shall destroy outside There shall
  be terror within
• For the young man and virgin, The nursing child
  with the man of gray hairs.
• 26 I would have said, I will dash them in pieces,
  I will make the memory of them to cease from
  among men, NKJV

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• 21 Prepare slaughter for his children Because of
  the iniquity of their fathers, Lest they rise up
  and possess the land, And fill the face of the
  world with cities."
• WHY SLAUGHTER THE CHILDREN?
• WHAT WAS THE INIQUITY OF THEIR FATHERS?
• READ 1 SAMUEL 2816-19
• 16 Samuel said Why do you ask me, seeing the
  LORD has departed from you and has become your
  enemy?
• 17 The LORD has done for Himself as He spoke by
  me. The LORD has torn the kingdom out of your
  hand and given it to your neighbor, David.
• 18 Because you did not obey the voice of the LORD
  nor execute His fierce wrath upon Amalek,
  therefore the LORD has done this thing to you
  this day.
• 19 Moreover the LORD will also deliver Israel
  with you into the hand of the Philistines. And
  tomorrow you and your sons will be with me. The
  LORD will also deliver the army of Israel into
  the hand of the Philistines. NKJV

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