ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY

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PROPHET - DATE JONAH (825-785BC)? JOEL (800BC)? HOSEA (785-725BC)? MICAH (785-710BC)? AMOS (784BC)? ISAIAH (701-681BC)? NAHUM (700BC)? ZEPHANIAH (630BC)? JEREMIAH (629-588BC)? DANIEL (606-534BC)? HABAKKUK (598BC)? EZEKIEL (597-573BC)? OBADIAH (588-562BC)? EZRA (536-456BC)? HAGGAI (532-512BC)? ZECHARIAH (532-512BC)? MALACHI (420-397BC)? KING / EVENT - DATE TIGLATH-PILESER (745-727BC)? HEZEKIAH (JUDAH) (726-698BC)? SHALMANESER (727-722BC)? ISRAEL TAKEN CAPTIVE (722BC)? SENNACHERIB (705-681BC)? NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)? ZEDEKIAH (JUDAH) (597-586BC)? JUDAH TAKEN CAPTIVE (586BC)? BELSHAZZAR (541-523BC)? CYRUS (559-529BC)? BABYLON DESTROYED (536BC)? DARIUS (511-475BC)?
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OUTLINE ISAIAH CHAPTER THIRTY

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT V. 1-7
• THE JEWS ARE A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE V. 8-17
• THE LORD WILL BE GRACIOUS V. 18-26
• DIVINE VENGEANCE AGAINST ASSYRIA V.27-33
• FALL OF SENNACHERIB'S ARMY

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READ ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING?
• REBELLIOUS CHILDREN? JEWS?
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING? JEWS?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ EXODUS 2332-33
• 32 You shall make no covenant with them Nor with
  their gods.
• 33 They shall not dwell in your land Lest they
  make you sin against Me. For If you serve their
  gods, It will surely be a snare to you. NKJV
• HOW DID ISRAEL RESPOND TO MOSES?
• READ EXODUS 247-8
• 7 Moses took the Book of the Covenant and read in
  the hearing of the people. They said All that
  the LORD has said we will do and be obedient.
• 8 Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the
  people, and said, This is the blood of the
  covenant which the LORD has made with you
  according to all these words.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING? JEWS?
• WHAT AUTHORITY DID THE LORD GIVE JOSHUA?
• READ NUMBERS 2721-23
• 21 Joshua shall stand before Eleazar the priest,
  who shall inquire before the LORD for him by the
  judgment of the Urim. At his word they shall go
  out and At his word they shall come in, He and
  all the children of Israel with him - All the
  congregation.
• 22 Moses did as the LORD commanded him. He took
  Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest and
  before all the congregation.
• 23 He laid his hands on him and inaugurated him,
  Just as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING? JEWS?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 71-2
• 1 When The LORD your God brings you into the land
  which you go to possess and has cast out many
  nations before you (the Hittites, Girgashites,
  Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and
  Jebusites - Seven nations greater and mightier
  than you)
• 2 When the LORD your God delivers them over to
  you, You shall conquer them and utterly destroy
  them. You shall make no covenant with them Nor
  Show mercy to them. NKJV
• (EXODUS 3410-16)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING? JEWS?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL
• CONCERNING THE REBELLIOUS SON?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2119-21
• 19 Then His father and his mother shall take hold
  of him and Bring him out to the elders of his
  city, to the gate of his city.
• 20 They shall say to the elders of his city, This
  son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will
  not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a
  drunkard.
• 21 All the men of his city shall stone him to
  death with stones. So You shall put away the evil
  from among you. And All Israel shall hear and
  fear. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING? JEWS?
• WHAT DID THE LORD COMMAND ISRAEL
• CONCERNING THE REBELLIOUS SON?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2919
• 19 When he hears the words of this curse and he
  blesses himself in his heart, Saying, shall
  have peace, Even though I follow the dictates of
  my heart As though the drunkard could be
  included with the sober.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 1 "Woe to the rebellious children," says the
  LORD, "Who take counsel, but not of Me, And who
  devise plans, but not of My Spirit, That they may
  add sin to sin
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHO IS THE LORD WARNING?
• REBELLIOUS CHILDREN? JEWS?
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• READ GENESIS 1210-13
• 10 There was a famine in the land, and Abram went
  down to Egypt to dwell there, for the famine was
  severe in the land. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• READ GENESIS 423-5
• 3 Joseph's brothers went to buy grain in Egypt.
• 4 Jacob did not send Joseph's brother Benjamin
  with his brothers, Lest Some calamity befall him.
• 5 The sons of Israel went to buy grain among
  those who journeyed For the famine was in the
  land of Canaan.
• READ GENESIS 4315
• 15 They took the present and Benjamin. They took
  double money in their hand, arose and went down
  to Egypt. And They stood before Joseph. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• READ NUMBERS 115-6
• 5 We remember the fish which we ate freely in
  Egypt, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the
  onions, and the garlic.
• 6 But now Our whole being is dried up. There is
  nothing at all except this manna before our eyes!
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHAT DID MOSES SAY TO KING OF EDOM?
• READ NUMBERS 2014-17
• 14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king
  of Edom. Thus says your brother Israel You know
  all the hardship that has befallen us,
• 15 How our fathers went down to Egypt and We
  dwelt in Egypt a long time. And the Egyptians
  afflicted us and our fathers.
• 16 When We cried out to the LORD, He heard our
  voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of
  Egypt. Now Here we are in Kadesh, a city on the
  edge of your border.
• 17 Please let us pass through your country. We
  will not pass through fields or vineyards nor
  Will we drink water from wells. We will go along
  the King's Highway. We will not turn aside to the
  right hand or to the left Until we have passed
  through your territory.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1019-22
• 19 Love the stranger For You were strangers in
  the land of Egypt.
• 20 You shall fear the LORD your God You shall
  serve Him, and to Him you shall hold fast, and
  take oaths in His name.
• 21 He is your praise and He is your God. He has
  done for you these great and awesome things which
  your eyes have seen.
• 22 Your fathers went down to Egypt with seventy
  persons. And now The LORD your God has made you
  as the stars of heaven in multitude. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY CONCERNING THE LORD?
• READ PSALMS 1215-8
• 5 The LORD is your keeper. The LORD is your shade
  at your right hand.
• 6 The sun shall not strike you by day Nor the
  moon by night.
• 7 The LORD shall preserve you from all evil. He
  shall preserve your soul.
• 8 The LORD shall preserve your going out and your
  coming in From this time forth and even
  forevermore.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY DID THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• READ 2 KINGS 2525-26
• 25 Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of
  Elishama, of the royal family, came with ten men
  and struck and killed Gedaliah, the Jews, as well
  as the Chaldeans who were with him at Mizpah.
• 26 All the people, small and great, and the
  captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt.
  They were afraid of the Chaldeans.
• READ JEREMIAH 218-19
• 18 Why take the road to Egypt, To drink the
  waters of Sihor? Or why take the road to Assyria,
  To drink the waters of the River?
• 19 Your own wickedness will correct you And Your
  backslidings will rebuke you. Know and see that
  it is an evil and bitter thing That you have
  forsaken the LORD your God And the fear of Me is
  not in you, Says the Lord GOD of hosts. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• READ JEREMIAH 4213-17
• 13 If You say, We will not dwell in this land,
  Disobeying the voice of the LORD your God,
• 14 Saying, No, We will go to the land of Egypt
  Where We shall see no war Nor Hear the sound of
  the trumpet, Nor be hungry for bread and There we
  will dwell
• 15 Then Hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of
  Judah! Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
  Israel If You wholly set your faces to enter
  Egypt and Go to dwell there,
• 16 Then it shall be that the sword which you
  feared shall overtake you there in the land of
  Egypt. The famine of which you were afraid shall
  follow close after you there in Egypt and there
  you shall die.
• 17 So shall it be with all the men who set their
  faces to go to Egypt to dwell there. They shall
  die by the sword, by famine and by pestilence.
  None of them shall remain or escape from the
  disaster that I will bring upon them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
• REJECTING THE COUNSEL OF THE LORD?
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST EGYPT?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR? WHY?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EGYPT?
• READ JEREMIAH 4625-26
• 25 The LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, Says
  Behold, I will bring punishment on Amon of No
  and Pharaoh and Egypt, with their gods and their
  kings Pharaoh and those who trust in him.
• 26 I will deliver them into the hand of those
  who seek their lives, into the hand of
  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and the hand of
  his servants. Afterward It shall be inhabited as
  in the days of old, Says the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHAT DID ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH DO?
• WHO DID THE LORD SEND AGAINST ZEDEKIAH?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 1711-14
• 11 The word of the LORD came to me, Saying,
• 12 Say to the rebellious house Do you not know
  what these things mean? Tell them, Indeed the
  king of Babylon went to Jerusalem and took its
  king and princes and led them with him to
  Babylon.
• 13 He took the king's offspring, made a covenant
  with him and put him under oath. He also took
  away the mighty of the land,
• 14 That the kingdom might be brought low and not
  lift itself up But that By keeping his covenant
  it might stand.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHY DID ZEDEKIAH SEND ABMASSADORS TO EGPYT?
• READ EZEKIEL 1715-18
• 15 But He rebelled against him by sending his
  ambassadors to Egypt That They might give him
  horses and many people. Will he prosper? Will he
  who does such things escape? Can he break a
  covenant and still be delivered?
• 16 As I live, Says the Lord GOD, Surely in the
  place where the king dwells who made him king,
  whose oath he despised and whose covenant he
  broke with him, in the midst of Babylon he shall
  die.
• 17 Nor Will Pharaoh with his mighty army and
  great company do anything in the war When They
  heap up a siege mound and build a wall to cut off
  many persons.
• 18 Since He despised the oath by breaking the
  covenant and in fact gave his hand and still did
  all these things, He shall not escape. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 301-2

• 2 Who walk to go down to Egypt, And have not
  asked My advice, To strengthen themselves in the
  strength of Pharaoh, And to trust in the shadow
  of Egypt!
• WHY WOULD THEY GO TO EGYPT?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO THE EGYPTIANS? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 2913-16
• 13 Thus says the Lord GOD At the end of forty
  years I will gather the Egyptians from the
  peoples among whom they were scattered.
• 14 I will bring back the captives of Egypt and
  cause them to return to the land of Pathros, to
  the land of their origin and There they shall be
  a lowly kingdom.
• 15 It shall be the lowliest of kingdoms. It
  shall never again exalt itself above the nations.
  For I will diminish them so that they will not
  rule over the nations anymore.
• 16 No longer shall it be the confidence of the
  house of Israel But It will remind them of their
  iniquity When they turned to follow them. Then
  They shall know that I am the Lord GOD. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 303-5

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• 5 They were all ashamed of a people who could not
  benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame
  and also a reproach."

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• 5 They were all ashamed of a people who could not
  benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame
  and also a reproach."
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY TRUST IN PHARAOH?
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS PRINCES? ZOAN?
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS AMBASSADORS? HANES?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ZOAN HANES?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS PRINCES? ZOAN?
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS AMBASSADORS? HANES?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ZOAN?
• READ NUMBERS 1321-23
• 21 They went up and spied out the land from the
  Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the
  entrance of Hamath.
• 22 They went up through the South and came to
  Hebron. Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the
  descendants of Anak, were there. (Hebron was
  built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
• 23 They came to the Valley of Eshcol. And There
  cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes.
  They carried it between two of them on a pole.
  They also brought some of the pomegranates and
  figs. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS PRINCES? ZOAN?
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS AMBASSADORS? HANES?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ZOAN?
• READ PSALMS 7812-13
• 12 Marvelous things He did in the sight of their
  fathers, In the land of Egypt, in the field of
  Zoan.
• 13 He divided the sea and caused them to pass
  through. He made the waters stand up like a heap.
  NKJV
• READ PSALMS 7842-43
• 42 They did not remember His power. The day when
  He redeemed them from the enemy,
• 43 When He worked His signs in Egypt And His
  wonders in the field of Zoan. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS PRINCES? ZOAN?
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS AMBASSADORS? HANES?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ZOAN?
• READ ISAIAH 1911 - 13
• 11 Surely the princes of Zoan are fools.
  Pharaoh's wise counselors give foolish counsel.
  How do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the
  wise, The son of ancient kings? NKJV
• 13 The princes of Zoan have become fools. The
  princes of Noph are deceived. They have also
  deluded Egypt, Those who are the mainstay of its
  tribes. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 3014
• 14 I will make Pathros desolate. I will Set fire
  to Zoan
• And Execute judgments in No. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS PRINCES? ZOAN?
• WHERE WERE PHAROAHS AMBASSADORS? HANES?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HANES?
• HANES IS TAHPANHES?
• NAMED AFTER QUEEN TAHPENES?
• READ 1 KINGS 1119-20
• 19 Hadad found great favor in the sight of
  Pharaoh, So that He gave him as wife the sister
  of his own wife, That is, The sister of Queen
  Tahpenes.
• 20 The sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his
  son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house. And
  Genubath was in Pharaoh's household among the
  sons of Pharaoh. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HANES?
• HANES IS TAHPANHES?
• NAMED AFTER QUEEN TAHPENES?
• READ JEREMIAH 437-11
• 7 They went to the land of Egypt For They did not
  obey the voice of the LORD. And They went as far
  as Tahpanhes.
• 8 The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah in
  Tahpanhes, Saying,
• 9 Take large stones in your hand and hide them
  in the sight of the men of Judah, in the clay in
  the brick courtyard which is at the entrance to
  Pharaoh's house in Tahpanhes
• 10 Say to them, Thus says the LORD of hosts, the
  God of Israel Behold, I will bring
  Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant.
  And I will set his throne above these stones that
  I have hidden. And He will spread his royal
  pavilion over them.
• 11 When he comes, he shall strike the land of
  Egypt and deliver to death those appointed for
  death and to captivity those appointed for
  captivity and to the sword those appointed for
  the sword. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HANES?
• HANES IS TAHPANHES?
• NAMED AFTER QUEEN TAHPENES?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE ISRAELITES IN EGYPT ?
• READ JEREMIAH 441-3
• 1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all
  the Jews who dwell in the land of Egypt, who
  dwell at Migdol, at Tahpanhes, at Noph, and in
  the country of Pathros, Saying,
• 2 Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of
  Israel You have seen all the calamity that I
  have brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities
  of Judah. Behold, this day they are a desolation
  and No one dwells in them,
• 3 Because of their wickedness which they have
  committed to provoke Me to anger, in that They
  went to burn incense and to serve other gods whom
  they did not know, They nor You nor Your
  fathers. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HANES?
• HANES IS TAHPANHES?
• NAMED AFTER QUEEN TAHPENES?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN TAHPANHES?
• READ JEREMIAH 4614
• 14 Declare in Egypt and proclaim in Migdol.
  Proclaim in Noph and in Tahpanhes. Say, Stand
  fast and prepare yourselves, For the sword
  devours all around you.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HANES?
• HANES IS TAHPANHES? - TEHAPHNEHES?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN TEHAPHNEHES?
• READ EZEKIEL 3018-19
• 18 At Tehaphnehes the day shall be darkened When
  I break the yokes of Egypt there And Her
  arrogant strength shall cease in her. As for her,
  A cloud shall cover her And Her daughters shall
  go into captivity.
• 19 Thus I will execute judgments on Egypt Then
  They shall know that I am the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• JEWS FUTILE CONFIDENCE IN EGYPT
• 3 Therefore the strength of Pharaoh Shall be your
  shame, And trust in the shadow of Egypt Shall be
  your humiliation.
• 4 For his princes were at Zoan, And his
  ambassadors came to Hanes.
• 5 They were all ashamed of a people who could not
  benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame
  and also a reproach."
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY TRUST IN PHARAOH?
• WHY WILL THE JEWS BE SHAMED AND REPROACHED?

35
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• SENNACHARIB TELLS THEM NOT TO TRUST IN THE
  PHAROAH
• READ 2 KINGS 1819-25
• 19 Say to Hezekiah, Thus says the great king, the
  king of Assyria What confidence is this in which
  you trust?
• 20 You speak of having plans and power for war.
  But they are mere words. In whom do you trust
  that you rebel against me?
• 21 You are trusting in the staff of this broken
  reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it will go
  into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king
  of Egypt to all who trust in him.
• 22 If you say to me, We trust in the LORD our
  God, Is it not He whose high places and whose
  altars Hezekiah has taken away. And said to Judah
  and Jerusalem, You shall worship before this
  altar in Jerusalem?
• 23 I urge you, give a pledge to my master the
  king of Assyria and I will give you two thousand
  horses. If you are able on your part to put
  riders on them!
• 24 How then will you repel one captain of the
  least of my master's servants and Put your trust
  in Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
• 25 Have I now come up without the LORD against
  this place to destroy it? The LORD said to me,
  Go up against this land, and destroy it. (2
  CHRONICLES 329-15)

36
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 5 They were all ashamed of a people who could not
  benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame
  and also a reproach."
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY TRUST IN PHARAOH?
• WHY WILL THE JEWS BE SHAMED AND REPROACHED?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO JEHOIACHIN KING OF JUDAH ?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 369-10
• 9 Jehoiachin was eight years old when he became
  king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months
  and ten days. And he did evil in the sight of the
  LORD.
• 10 At the turn of the year King Nebuchadnezzar
  summoned him and took him to Babylon, with the
  costly articles from the house of the LORD, and
  made Zedekiah, Jehoiakim's brother, king over
  Judah and Jerusalem. NKJV

37
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 5 They were all ashamed of a people who could not
  benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame
  and also a reproach."
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY TRUST IN PHARAOH?
• WHY WILL THE JEWS BE SHAMED AND REPROACHED?
• READ JEREMIAH 236-37
• 36 Why do you gad about so much to change your
  way? You shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were
  ashamed of Assyria.
• 37 Indeed you will go forth from him with your
  hands on your head. For the LORD has rejected
  your trusted allies And You will not prosper by
  them. NKJV

38
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 303-5

• 5 They were all ashamed of a people who could not
  benefit them, Or be help or benefit, But a shame
  and also a reproach."
• WHY WILL THE JEWS BE SHAMED AND REPROACHED?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THEY TRUST IN PHARAOH?
• READ JEREMIAH 371-5
• 1 King Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead
  of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom
  Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the
  land of Judah.
• 2 But neither he nor his servants nor the people
  of the land gave heed to the words of the LORD
  which He spoke by the prophet Jeremiah.
• 3 Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of
  Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the
  priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Pray now
  to the LORD our God for us.
• 4 Jeremiah was coming and going among the people
  For they had not yet put him in prison.
• 5 Pharaoh's army came up from Egypt. When the
  Chaldeans who were besieging Jerusalem heard news
  of them, They departed from Jerusalem. NKJV

39
READ ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
• Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no
  purpose. Therefore I have called her
  Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.

40
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no
  purpose. Therefore I have called her
  Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH?
• WHAT ANIMALS CAME FROM THIS LAND?
• WHAT DID THEY CARRY BACK TO THIS LAND?
• WHO WILL THE LORD CALL? RAHAB-HEM-SHEBETH?

41
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHY DID JOSEPHS BRETHREN GO TO EGYPT?
• READ GENESIS 4225-28
• 25 Joseph gave a command to fill their sacks with
  grain, to restore every man's money to his sack,
  and to give them provisions for the journey. Thus
  he did for them.
• 26 They loaded their donkeys with the grain and
  departed from there.
• 27 As one of them opened his sack to give his
  donkey feed at the encampment, He saw his money.
  There it was, in the mouth of his sack.
• 28 He said to his brothers, My money has been
  restored and there it is, in my sack! Their
  hearts failed them and they were afraid, Saying
  to one another, What is this that God has done
  to us? NKJV

42
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HEBREW CHILDREN?
• READ EXODUS 18-11
• 8 There arose a new king over Egypt, who did not
  know Joseph.
• 9 He said to his people, Look, the people of the
  children of Israel are more and mightier than we
• 10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them Lest
  they multiply and it happen, in the event of war,
  That they join our enemies and fight against us
  and go up out of the land.
• 11 They set taskmasters over them to afflict them
  with their burdens. They built for Pharaoh supply
  cities, Pithom and Raamses.

43
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HEBREW CHILDREN?
• READ EXODUS 510-14
• 10 The taskmasters of the people and their
  officers went out and spoke to the people,
  Saying, Thus says Pharaoh I will not give you
  straw.
• 11 Go, get yourselves straw where you can find
  it. Yet none of your work will be reduced.
• 12 The people were scattered abroad throughout
  all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead
  of straw.
• 13 The taskmasters forced them to hurry, Saying,
  Fulfill your work, your daily quota, as when
  there was straw.
• 14 The officers of the children of Israel, whom
  Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were
  beaten and were asked, Why have you not
  fulfilled your task in making brick both
  yesterday and today, as before?

44
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• HOW DID THE LORD DESCRIBE THE WILDERNESS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 814-17
• 14 When your heart is lifted up and you forget
  the LORD your God who brought you out of the land
  of Egypt, from the house of bondage
• 15 Who led you through that great and terrible
  wilderness, in which were fiery serpents and
  scorpions and thirsty land where there was no
  water who brought water for you out of the
  flinty rock
• 16 Who fed you in the wilderness with manna,
  which your fathers did not know, that He might
  humble you and that He might test you, to do you
  good in the end
• 17 Then you say in your heart, My power and the
  might of my hand have gained me this wealth. NKJV

45
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHO DID JUDAH FIGHT AGAINST IN THE SOUTH?
• READ JUDGES 18-10
• 8 The children of Judah fought against Jerusalem
  and took it. They struck it with the edge of the
  sword and set the city on fire.
• 9 Afterward the children of Judah went down to
  fight against the Canaanites who dwelt in the
  mountains, in the South and in the lowland.
• 10 Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in
  Hebron. (The name of Hebron was formerly Kirjath
  Arba.) And they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and
  Talmai. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT DID KING ASA OF JUDAH DO?
• READ 1 KINGS 1516-19
• 16 There was war between Asa and Baasha king of
  Israel all their days.
• 17 Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah
  and built Ramah That He might let none go out or
  come in to Asa king of Judah.
• 18 Asa took all the silver and gold that was left
  in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and
  the treasuries of the king's house and delivered
  them into the hand of his servants. And King Asa
  sent them to Ben-Hadad the son of Tabrimmon, the
  son of Hezion, king of Syria, who dwelt in
  Damascus, Saying,
• 19 Let there be a treaty between you and me As
  there was between my father and your father. See,
  I have sent you a present of silver and gold.
  Come and break your treaty with Baasha king of
  Israel So that He will withdraw from me. NKJV

47
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT DID AHAZ KING OF JUDAH DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 167-9
• 7 Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglath-Pileser king of
  Assyria, Saying, I am your servant and your son.
  Come up and save me from the hand of the king of
  Syria and from the hand of the king of Israel,
  who rise up against me.
• 8 Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in
  the house of the LORD, and in the treasuries of
  the king's house, and sent it as a present to the
  king of Assyria.
• 9 The king of Assyria heeded him. For The king of
  Assyria went up against Damascus and took it,
  carried its people captive to Kir and killed
  Rezin. NKJV

48
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 1813-16
• 13 In the 14th year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib
  king of Assyria came up against all the fortified
  cities of Judah and took them.
• 14 Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of
  Assyria at Lachish, Saying, I have done wrong.
  Turn away from me. Whatever you impose on me I
  will pay. The king of Assyria assessed Hezekiah
  king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and
  thirty talents of gold.
• 15 Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was
  found in the house of the LORD and in the
  treasuries of the king's house.
• 16 Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of
  the temple of the LORD and from the pillars which
  Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid and gave it
  to the king of Assyria. NKJV

49
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT WERE THE NATIONS OF THE NORTH SOUTH?
• READ ISAIAH 1429
• 29 Do not rejoice, all you of Philistia Because
  the rod that struck you is broken. For Out of the
  serpent's roots will come forth a viper And Its
  offspring will be a fiery flying serpent. NKJV
• WHO DO THE SERPENTS VIPERS REPRESENT?
• UZZIAH? OR AHAZ?
• WHAT IS THE FIERY FLYING SERPENT?
• HEZEKIEH?

50
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• HOW DID THE LORD BRING ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT?
• READ JEREMIAH 24-7
• 4 Hear the word of the LORD, O house of Jacob and
  All the families of the house of Israel.
• 5 Thus says the LORD What injustice have your
  fathers found in Me That They have gone far from
  Me,
• Have followed idols And have become idolaters?
• 6 Neither did they say, Where is the LORD, Who
  brought us up out of the land of Egypt, Who led
  us through the wilderness, Through a land of
  deserts and pits, Through a land of drought and
  the shadow of death,
• Through a land that no one crossed And where no
  one dwelt?
• 7 I brought you into a bountiful country, To eat
  its fruit and its goodness. But when you entered,
  you defiled My land And made My heritage an
  abomination.

51
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT WERE THE NATIONS OF THE NORTH SOUTH?
• READ DANIEL 115-8
• 5 The king of the South shall become strong, as
  well as one of his princes. He shall gain power
  over him and have dominion. His dominion shall be
  a great dominion.
• 6 At the end of some years they shall join
  forces, For the daughter of the king of the South
  shall go to the king of the North to make an
  agreement. But she shall not retain the power of
  her authority. Neither he nor his authority shall
  stand. She shall be given up, with those who
  brought her and with him who begot her and with
  him who strengthened her in those times.
• 7 From a branch of her roots one shall arise in
  his place, Who shall come with an army, Enter the
  fortress of the king of the North and Deal with
  them and prevail.
• 8 He shall carry their gods captive to Egypt,
  with their princes and their precious articles of
  silver and gold. He shall continue more years
  than the king of the North. NKJV

52
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
  Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT DID THEY CARRY BACK TO THIS LAND?
• WHO IS EPHRAIM? WHAT DID EPHRAIM DO?
• READ HOSEA 121
• 1 Ephraim feeds on the wind, And pursues the east
  wind. He daily increases lies and desolation.
  They make a covenant with the Assyrians and oil
  is carried to Egypt.

53
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 6 The burden against the beasts of the South.
• Through a land of trouble and anguish, From which
  came the lioness and lion, The viper and fiery
  flying serpent, They will carry their riches on
  the backs of young donkeys, And their treasures
  on the humps of camels, To a people who shall not
  profit
• 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no
  purpose. Therefore I have called her
  Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.
• WHAT IS THIS LAND OF TROUBLE ANGUISH? EGYPT?
• WHAT DID THEY CARRY BACK TO THIS LAND?
• WHO WILL THE LORD CALL? RAHAB-HEM-SHEBETH?
• WHY DID THE LORD CALL HER? RAHAB-HEM-SHEBETH?
• RAHAB-HEM-SHEBETH MEANS
• EGPYT IS UNABLE TO HELP JUDAH
• RAHAB EGYPT?
• SHEBETH TO SIT STILL?
• RAHAB THE INACTIVE?
• EGYPT IS TO SIT STILL WAIT?

54
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 306-7

• 7 For the Egyptians shall help in vain and to no
  purpose. Therefore I have called her
  Rahab-Hem-Shebeth.
• RAHAB-HEM-SHEBETH MEANS
• EGYPT IS TO SIT STILL WAIT
• READ 2 KINGS 1821
• 21 Look! You are trusting in the staff of this
  broken reed, Egypt, on which if a man leans, it
  will go into his hand and pierce it. So is
  Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in
  him. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 236
• 36 Why do you gad about so much to change your
  way? You shall be ashamed of Egypt as you were
  ashamed of Assyria. NKJV
• READ JOB 913
• 13 God will not withdraw His anger. The allies of
  the proud lie prostrate beneath Him. NKJV

55
READ ISAIAH 308-11

• THE JEWS ARE A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE
• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• 9 That this is a rebellious people, Lying
  children, Children who will not hear the law of
  the LORD
• 10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see, "And to the
  prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
• 11 Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path,
  Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before
  us."

56
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• THE JEWS ARE A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE
• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• 9 That this is a rebellious people, Lying
  children, Children who will not hear the law of
  the LORD
• 10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see, "And to the
  prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
• 11 Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path,
  Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before
  us.
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHY CALL ISRAEL A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE?
• WHAT DO THEY SAY TO THE SEERS AND PROPHETS?

57
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• THE JEWS ARE A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE
• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHAT DID THE LORD WRITE ON TABLETS OF STONE?
• TEN COMMANDMENTS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 910-11
• 10 The LORD delivered to me two tablets of stone
  written with the finger of God And on them were
  all the words which the LORD had spoken to you on
  the mountain from the midst of the fire in the
  day of the assembly.
• 11 At the end of forty days and forty nights, the
  LORD gave me the two tablets of stone, the
  tablets of the covenant. NKJV

58
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHAT DID MOSES WRITE ON THESE STONES?
• TEN COMMANDMENTS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 274-8
• 4 When you have crossed over the Jordan on Mount
  Ebal you shall set up these stones, which I
  command you today. You shall whitewash them with
  lime.
• 5 You shall build an altar to the LORD your God,
  an altar of stones. You shall not use an iron
  tool on them.
• 6 You shall build with whole stones the altar of
  the LORD your God and offer burnt offerings on it
  to the LORD your God.
• 7 You shall offer peace offerings and shall eat
  there, and rejoice before the LORD your God.
• 8 You shall write very plainly on the stones all
  the words of this law. NKJV

59
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHAT SONG DID THE LORD WANT MOSES TO WRITE DOWN?
• SONG OF DELIVERANCE?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 3119 21
• 19 Write down this song for yourselves. Teach it
  to the children of Israel Put it in their
  mouths. That this song may be a witness for Me
  against the children of Israel. NKJV
• 21 When many evils and troubles have come upon
  them this song will testify against them as a
  witness. It will not be forgotten in the mouths
  of their descendants. For I know the inclination
  of their behavior today, even before I have
  brought them to the land of which I swore to give
  them. NKJV
• WHY?
• READ EXODUS 151
• 1 Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this
  song to the LORD, and spoke, saying "I will sing
  to the LORD, For He has triumphed gloriously! The
  horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!
  NKJV

60
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHY DID MOSES COMMAND THE LEVITES TO PUT
• THE BOOK OF THE LAW BESIDE THE ARK OF THE
  COVENANT?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 3125-26
• 25 Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark
  of the covenant of the LORD, saying
• 26 Take this Book of the Law and put it beside
  the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God,
  that it may be there as a witness against
  you. NKJV

61
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHAT DID JOSHUA WRITE ON A LARGE STONE?
• WHY?
• READ JOSHUA 2426-27
• 26 Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the
  Law of God. He took a large stone and set it up
  there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of
  the LORD.
• 27 Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this
  stone shall be a witness to us, for it has heard
  all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us.
  It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you
  deny your God. NKJV

62
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHAT DID JEREMIAH WRITE IN A BOOK? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 2512-13
• 12 It will come to pass when seventy years are
  completed, That I will punish the king of Babylon
  and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for
  their iniquity, Says the LORD. And I will make it
  a perpetual desolation.
• 13 I will bring on that land all My words which I
  have pronounced against it, all that is written
  in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied
  concerning all the nations. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 302-3
• 2 Thus speaks the LORD God of Israel, Saying
  Write in a book for yourself all the words that
  I have spoken to you.
• 3 Behold, the days are coming, Says the LORD,
  that I will bring back from captivity My people
  Israel and Judah, Says the LORD. I will cause
  them to return to the land that I gave to their
  fathers and they shall possess it. NKJV

63
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 308-11

• WHAT DID JEREMIAH WRITE IN A BOOK? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 361-8
• 1 It came to pass in the fourth year of Jehoiakim
  the son of Josiah, King of Judah, That This word
  came to Jeremiah from the LORD, Saying
• 2 Take a scroll of a book and write on it all
  the words that I have spoken to you against
  Israel, against Judah and against all the
  nations, from the day I spoke to you, from the
  days of Josiah even to this day.
• 3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear
  all the adversities which I purpose to bring upon
  them, That everyone may turn from his evil way,
  That I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
  
• 4 Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah.
  Baruch wrote on a scroll of a book, at the
  instruction of Jeremiah, all the words of the
  LORD which He had spoken to him.

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• WHAT DID JEREMIAH WRITE IN A BOOK? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 361-8
• 5 Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am
  confined I cannot go into the house of the
  LORD.
• 6 You go and read from the scroll which you have
  written at my instruction, the words of the LORD,
  in the hearing of the people in the LORDS house
  on the day of fasting. You shall also read them
  in the hearing of all Judah who come from their
  cities.
• 7 It may be that they will present their
  supplication before the LORD, and everyone will
  turn from his evil way. For great is the anger
  and the fury that the LORD has pronounced against
  this people.
• 8 Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all
  that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading
  from the book the words of the LORD in the LORDS
  house.

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• HOW DID THE KING RESPOND TO THIS WRITING?
• READ JEREMIAH 3621-26
• 21 The king sent Jehudi to bring the scroll and
  he took it from Elishama the scribe's chamber.
  Jehudi read it in the hearing of the king and in
  the hearing of all the princes who stood beside
  the king.
• 22 The king was sitting in the winter house in
  the ninth month, with a fire burning on the
  hearth before him.
• 23 When Jehudi had read three or four columns,
  the king cut it with the scribe's knife and cast
  it into the fire that was on the hearth, Until
  all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was
  on the hearth.
• 24 They were not afraid, nor did they tear their
  garments, the king nor any of his servants who
  heard all these words.
• 25 Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah implored the
  king not to burn the scroll. But he would not
  listen to them.
• 26 The king commanded Jerahmeel the king's son,
  Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son
  of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and
  Jeremiah the prophet, But the LORD hid them. NKJV

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• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL JEREMIAH TO DO? WHY?
• READ JEREMIAH 3627-31
• 27 After the king had burned the scroll with the
  words which Baruch had written at the instruction
  of Jeremiah, the word of the LORD came to
  Jeremiah, saying
• 28 Take yet another scroll and write on it all
  the former words that were in the first scroll
  which Jehoiakim the king of Judah has burned.
• 29 You shall say to Jehoiakim king of Judah,
  Thus says the LORD You have burned this
  scroll, Saying, Why have you written in it that
  the king of Babylon will certainly come and
  destroy this land and cause man and beast to
  cease from here?
• 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.

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• 8 Now go, write it before them on a tablet, And
  note it on a scroll, That it may be for time to
  come, Forever and ever
• WHAT IS ISAIAH TO WRITE ON? TABLET? SCROLL?
• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL HABAKKUK TO DO? WHY?
• READ HABAKKUK 22-3
• 2 The LORD said Write the vision And make it
  plain on tablets, That he may run who reads it.
• 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time.
  But at the end it will speak, and it will not
  lie. Though it tarries, wait for it Because it
  will surely come, It will not tarry.

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• THE JEWS ARE A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE
• 9 That this is a rebellious people, Lying
  children, Children who will not hear the law of
  the LORD
• WHY CALL THEM A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE?
• READ PSALMS 785-8
• 5 He established a testimony in Jacob and
  appointed a law in Israel Which He commanded our
  fathers That they should make them known to their
  children.
• 6 That the generation to come might know them,
  The children who would be born, That they may
  arise and declare them to their children,
• 7 That they may set their hope in God, And not
  forget the works of God, But keep His
  commandments
• 8 And may not be like their fathers, A stubborn
  and rebellious generation, A generation that did
  not set its heart aright, And whose spirit was
  not faithful to God.

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• THE JEWS ARE A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE
• 9 That this is a rebellious people, Lying
  children, Children who will not hear the law of
  the LORD
• WHY CALL THEM A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO EZEKIEL?
• READ EZEKIEL 26-8
• 6 Son of man, do not be afraid of them nor be
  afraid of their words, though briers and thorns
  are with you and you dwell among scorpions. Do
  not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their
  looks, though they are a rebellious house.
• 7 You shall speak My words to them, whether they
  hear or whether they refuse, for they are
  rebellious.
• 8 Son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be
  rebellious like that rebellious house open your
  mouth and eat what I give you. NKJV

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• 10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see, "And to the
  prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
• 11 Get out of the way, Turn aside from the path,
  Cause the Holy One of Israel To cease from before
  us.
• WHAT DO THEY SAY TO THE SEERS PROPHETS?
• DO NOT PROPHESY TRUTH?

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• 10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see, "And to the
  prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
• WHAT DO THEY SAY TO THE SEERS PROPHETS?
• DO NOT PROPHESY TRUTH?
• WHY DID AHAB HATE THE PROPHET MICAIAH?
• READ 1 KINGS 226-9
• 6 The king of Israel gathered the prophets
  together, about four hundred men, and said to
  them, Shall I go against Ramoth Gilead to fight,
  or shall I refrain? They said, Go up, for the
  Lord will deliver it into the hand of the king.
• 7 Jehoshaphat said, Is there not still a
  prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of
  Him?
• 8 The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There
  is still one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by
  whom we may inquire of the LORD but I hate him,
  because he does not prophesy good concerning me,
  but evil. Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king
  say such things!
• 9 The king of Israel called an officer and said,
  Bring Micaiah the son of Imlah quickly! NKJV

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• 10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see, "And to the
  prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
• WHAT DO THEY SAY TO THE SEERS PROPHETS?
• DO NOT PROPHESY TRUTH?
• WHAT DID THE MESSENGER WANT MICAIAH TO DO?
• SPEAK ENCOURAGEMENT?
• READ 1 KINGS 2213-18
• 13 The messenger who had gone to call Micaiah
  spoke to him, saying, Listen, the words of the
  prophets with one accord encourage the king.
  Please, let your word be like the word of one of
  them and Speak encouragement.
• 14 Micaiah said, As the LORD lives, Whatever the
  LORD says to me, That I will speak.
• 15 He came to the king and the king said to him,
  Micaiah, Shall we go to war against Ramoth
  Gilead, or shall we refrain? He answered him,
  Go and prosper, for the LORD will deliver it
  into the hand of the king!

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• 10 Who say to the seers, "Do not see, "And to the
  prophets, "Do not prophesy to us right things
  Speak to us smooth things, prophesy deceits.
• WHAT DO THEY SAY TO THE SEERS PROPHETS?
• DO NOT PROPHESY TRUTH?
• HOW DID AHAB RESPOND TO MICAIAH?
• READ 1 KINGS 2213-18
• 16 The king said to him, How many times shall