ISAIAH CHAPTER NINETEEN

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER NINETEEN

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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 NINETEEN

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST EGYPT
• PROPHECY CONCERNING EGYPT V. 1-17
• TRUE RELIGION (GOSPEL) WILL COME TO EGYPT V.
  18-22
• PEACE BETWEEN EGYPT, ASSYRIA, AND ISRAEL V. 23-25

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READ ISAIAH 191

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST EGYPT
• 1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD
  rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt
  The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence,
  And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 191

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST EGYPT
• 1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD
  rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt
  The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence,
  And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
• WHO IS THE PROCLAMATION AGAINST? EGYPT?
• HOW WILL THE LORD EXECUTE JUDGMENT ON EGYPT?
• HAS THE LORD DONE THIS IN THE PAST? WHEN?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 191

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST EGYPT
• 1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD
  rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt
  The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence,
  And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
• HAS THE LORD DONE THIS IN THE PAST? WHEN?
• READ EXODUS 1212
• 12 I will pass through the land of Egypt on that
  night, and will strike all the firstborn in the
  land of Egypt, both man and beast and against
  all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment I
  am the LORD.
• READ JOSHUA 210-11
• 10 We have heard how the LORD dried up the water
  of the Red Sea for you when you came out of
  Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the
  Amorites who were on the other side of the
  Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
• 11 As soon as we heard these things, our hearts
  melted neither did there remain any more courage
  in anyone because of you, for the LORD your God,
  He is God in heaven above and on earth
  beneath. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 191

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST EGYPT
• 1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD
  rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt
  The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence,
  And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
• HOW DID THE LORD RESPOND TO DAVIDS CRY?
• READ 2 SAMUEL 227-12
• 7 In my distress I called upon the LORD. I cried
  out to my God He heard my voice from His temple
  And my cry entered His ears.
• 8 The earth shook and trembled The foundations
  of heaven quaked and were shaken Because He was
  angry.
• 9 Smoke went up from His nostrils, And devouring
  fire from His mouth Coals were kindled by it.
• 10 He bowed the heavens and came down With
  darkness under His feet.
• 11 He rode upon a cherub and flew And He was
  seen upon the wings of the wind.
• 12 He made darkness canopies around Him, Dark
  waters and thick clouds of the skies. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 191

• PROCLAMATION AGAINST EGYPT
• 1 The burden against Egypt. Behold, the LORD
  rides on a swift cloud, And will come into Egypt
  The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence,
  And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst.
• WHY IS THE LORD BRINGING JUDGMENT AGAINST EGYPT?
• READ JOEL 319
• 19 Egypt shall be a desolation And Edom a
  desolate wilderness Because of violence against
  the people of Judah. For they have shed innocent
  blood in their land. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 4312-13
• 12 I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods
  of Egypt and he shall burn them and carry them
  away captive. He shall array himself with the
  land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment.
  And he shall go out from there in peace.
• 13 He shall break the sacred pillars of Beth
  Shemesh that are in the land of Egypt. And the
  houses of the gods of the Egyptians he shall burn
  with fire. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 192-4

• 2 "I will set Egyptians against Egyptians
  Everyone will fight against his brother, And
  everyone against his neighbor, City against city,
  kingdom against kingdom.
• 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst I
  will destroy their counsel, And they will consult
  the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the
  sorcerers.
• 4 And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of
  a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over
  them, "Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• 2 "I will set Egyptians against Egyptians
  Everyone will fight against his brother, And
  everyone against his neighbor, City against city,
  kingdom against kingdom.
• 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst I
  will destroy their counsel, And they will consult
  the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the
  sorcerers.
• 4 And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of
  a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over
  them, Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
• HOW WILL THE LORD DESTROY THE EGPYTIANS?
• HOW DID THE LORD DESTROY THE MIDIANITES?
• WHO DID EGYPT CONSULT FOR GUIDANCE?
• WHY DID THEY FAIL?
• WHO WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM OVER TO? A CRUEL
  MASTER?
• WHO IS THIS PERSON? NEBUCHADNEZZAR?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• HOW WILL THE LORD DESTROY THE EGPYTIANS?
• HOW DID THE LORD DESTROY THE MIDIANITES?
• READ JUDGES 722
• 22 When the three hundred blew the trumpets, the
  LORD set every man's sword against his companion
  throughout the whole camp and the army fled to
  Beth Acacia, toward Zererah, as far as the border
  of Abel Meholah, by Tabbath. NKJV
• WHO CAUSED THE CALAMITY? THE LORD?
• READ AMOS 36
• 6 If a trumpet is blown in a city, will not the
  people be afraid?
• If there is calamity in a city, will not the LORD
  have done it? NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ISRAEL FORSOOK GOD?
• WHO SET NATION AGAINST NATION? CITY AGAINST
  CITY?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 153-6
• 3 For a long time Israel has been without the
  true God, without a teaching priest, and without
  law
• 4 But when in their trouble they turned to the
  LORD God of Israel, and sought Him, He was found
  by them.
• 5 In those times there was no peace to the one
  who went out, nor to the one who came in, but
  great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the
  lands.
• 6 Nation was destroyed by nation, and city by
  city, for God troubled them with every adversity.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• 2 "I will set Egyptians against Egyptians
  Everyone will fight against his brother, And
  everyone against his neighbor, City against city,
  kingdom against kingdom.
• 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst I
  will destroy their counsel, And they will consult
  the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the
  sorcerers.
• 4 And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of
  a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over
  them, Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
• WHO DID EGYPT CONSULT FOR GUIDANCE?
• WHY DID THEY FAIL?
• WHAT DID GOD TELL ISRAEL ABOUT MEDIUMS
  SORCERERS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• 2 "I will set Egyptians against Egyptians
  Everyone will fight against his brother, And
  everyone against his neighbor, City against city,
  kingdom against kingdom.
• 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst I
  will destroy their counsel, And they will consult
  the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the
  sorcerers.
• WHAT DID GOD TELL ISRAEL ABOUT MEDIUMS
  SORCERERS?
• READ LEVITICUS 1931
• 31 Give no regard to mediums and familiar
  spirits do not seek after them, to be defiled by
  them I am the LORD your God. NKJV
• READ LEVITICUS 206-7
• 6 The person who turns to mediums and familiar
  spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will
  set My face against that person and cut him off
  from his people. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHAT DID GOD TELL ISRAEL ABOUT MEDIUMS
  SORCERERS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 189-12
• 9 When you come into the land which the LORD your
  God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow
  the abominations of those nations.
• 10 There shall not be found among you anyone who
  makes his son or his daughter pass through the
  fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a
  soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a
  sorcerer,
• 11 Or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a
  spiritist, or one who calls up the dead.
• 12 All who do these things are an abomination to
  the LORD, and because of these abominations the
  LORD your God drives them out from before
  you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHAT DID GOD TELL ISRAEL ABOUT MEDIUMS
  SORCERERS?
• WHAT HAPPENED IF THEY TURNED TO MEDIUMS
  SORCERERS?
• READ 1 CHRONICLES 1013-14
• 13 Saul died for his unfaithfulness which he had
  committed against the LORD because he did not
  keep the word of the LORD, and also because he
  consulted a medium for guidance.
• 14 He did not inquire of the LORD therefore He
  killed him, and turned the kingdom over to David
  the son of Jesse. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHERE DID MOSES OBTAIN HIS WISDOM?
• READ ACTS 721-22
• 22 Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
  Egyptians, and was mighty in words and
  deeds. NKJV
• WHERE DID SOLOMON OBTAIN HIS WISDOM?
• READ 1 KINGS 430-32
• 30 Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all
  the men of the East and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• 31 He was wiser than all men than Ethan the
  Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons
  of Mahol and his fame was in all the surrounding
  nations. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst I
  will destroy their counsel, And they will consult
  the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the
  sorcerers.
• WHO DID EGYPT CONSULT FOR GUIDANCE?
• WHY DID THEY FAIL?
• WHO DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR CONSULT ABOUT HIS DREAMS?
• READ DANIEL 21-3
• 1 In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign,
  Nebuchadnezzar had dreams and his spirit was so
  troubled that his sleep left him.
• 2 The king gave the command to call the
  magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and
  the Chaldeans to tell the king his dreams. So
  they came and stood before the king.
• 3 The king said to them, I have had a dream, and
  my spirit is anxious to know the dream. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHO DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR CONSULT ABOUT HIS DREAMS?
• WHY DID THEY FAIL?
• READ DANIEL 210-11
• 10 The Chaldeans answered the king, and said,
  There is not a man on earth who can tell the
  king's matter therefore no king, lord, or ruler
  has ever asked such things of any magician,
  astrologer, or Chaldean.
• 11 It is a difficult thing that the king
  requests, and there is no other who can tell it
  to the king except the gods, whose dwelling is
  not with flesh. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHO DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR CONSULT ABOUT HIS DREAMS?
• WHO WAS ABLE TO INTERPET HIS DREAMS? WHY?
• READ DANIEL 55-9
• 5 In the same hour the fingers of a man's hand
  appeared and wrote opposite the lamp stand on the
  plaster of the wall of the king's palace and the
  king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
• 6 The king's countenance changed and his thoughts
  troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were
  loosened and his knees knocked against each
  other.
• 7 The king cried aloud to bring in the
  astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers.
  The king spoke, saying to the wise men of
  Babylon, Whoever reads this writing, and tells
  me its interpretation, shall be clothed with
  purple and have a chain of gold around his neck
  and he shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.
• 8 All the king's wise men came, but they could
  not read the writing, or make known to the king
  its interpretation. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• 3 The spirit of Egypt will fail in its midst I
  will destroy their counsel, And they will consult
  the idols and the charmers, The mediums and the
  sorcerers.
• WHO DID EGYPT CONSULT FOR GUIDANCE?
• WHY DID THEY FAIL?
• READ JOB 511-13
• 11 He sets on high those who are lowly And those
  who mourn are lifted to safety.
• 12 He frustrates the devices of the crafty So
  that their hands cannot carry out their plans.
• 13 He catches the wise in their own craftiness
  And the counsel of the cunning comes quickly upon
  them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• 4 And the Egyptians I will give Into the hand of
  a cruel master, And a fierce king will rule over
  them, Says the Lord, the LORD of hosts.
• WHO WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM OVER TO? A CRUEL
  MASTER?
• WHO IS THIS PERSON? NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• 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 192-4

• WHO WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM OVER TO?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 293
• 3 Speak, and say, Thus says the Lord GOD
  Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of
  Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of
  his rivers, Who has said, My River is my own I
  have made it for myself. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 2919-20
• 19 Thus says the Lord GOD Surely I will give
  the land of Egypt to Nebuchadnezzar king of
  Babylon he shall take away her wealth, carry off
  her spoil, and remove her pillage and that will
  be the wages for his army.
• 20 I have given him the land of Egypt for his
  labor, because they worked for Me, says the Lord
  GOD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 192-4

• WHO WILL THE LORD GIVE THEM OVER TO?
• NEBUCHADNEZZAR? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 3211-15
• 11 Thus says the Lord GOD The sword of the king
  of Babylon shall come upon you.
• 12 By the swords of the mighty warriors, all of
  them the most terrible of the nations, I will
  cause your multitude to fall. They shall plunder
  the pomp of Egypt And all its multitude shall be
  destroyed.
• 13 I will destroy all its animals From beside
  its great waters
• The foot of man shall muddy them no more Nor
  shall the hooves of animals muddy them.
• 14 Then I will make their waters clear And make
  their rivers run like oil, Says the Lord GOD.
• 15 When I make the land of Egypt desolate And
  the country is destitute of all that once filled
  it, When I strike all who dwell in it,
• Then they shall know that I am the LORD. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.
• WHAT WATERS WILL THE LORD CAUSE TO FAIL?
• THE NILE? THE RED SEA?
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD DRIES UP THEIR WATERS?
• WHY DRY UP THEIR WATERS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.
• WHAT WATERS WILL THE LORD CAUSE TO FAIL?
• THE NILE? THE RED SEA?
• WHY DRY UP THEIR WATERS?
• READ JEREMIAH 5038
• 38 A drought is against her waters and they will
  be dried up.
• For it is the land of carved images. They are
  insane with their idols.
• READ JEREMIAH 5136
• 36 Thus says the LORD Behold, I will plead your
  case and take vengeance for you. I will dry up
  her sea and make her springs dry.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.
• WHAT WATERS WILL THE LORD CAUSE TO FAIL?
• THE NILE? THE RED SEA?
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD DRIES UP THEIR WATERS?
• READ EZEKIEL 3012
• 12 I will make the rivers dry And sell the land
  into the hand of the wicked. I will make the land
  waste and all that is in it, By the hand of
  aliens. I, the LORD, have spoken. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD DRIES UP THEIR WATERS?
• READ GENESIS 411-4
• 1 It came to pass at the end of two full years
  that Pharaoh had a dream. And Behold, he stood by
  the river.
• 2 Suddenly there came up out of the river seven
  cows, fine looking and fat and They fed in the
  meadow.
• 3 Behold, seven other cows came up after them out
  of the river, ugly and gaunt and stood by the
  other cows on the bank of the river.
• 4 The ugly and gaunt cows ate up the seven fine
  looking and fat cows. And Pharaoh awoke. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD DRIES UP THEIR WATERS?
• READ EZEKIEL 717-18
• 17 Thus says the LORD By this you shall know
  that I am the LORD. Behold, I will strike the
  waters which are in the river with the rod that
  is in my hand and they shall be turned to blood.
• 18 The fish that are in the river shall die, the
  river shall stink, and the Egyptians will loathe
  to drink the water of the river.
• WHAT DID THE ISRAELITES REMEMBER ABOUT 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 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE NILE TURNED TO BLOOD?
• READ EXODUS 714-18
• 14 The LORD said to Moses Pharaoh's heart is
  hard. He refuses to let the people go.
• 15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning when he goes out
  to the water. You shall stand by the river's bank
  to meet him. And the rod which was turned to a
  serpent you shall take in your hand.
• 16 You shall say to him, The LORD God of the
  Hebrews has sent me to you, saying, Let My
  people go that they may serve Me in the
  wilderness But indeed, until now you would not
  hear!
• 17 Thus says the LORD By this you shall know
  that I am the LORD. Behold, I will strike the
  waters which are in the river with the rod that
  is in my hand and they shall be turned to
  blood.
• 18 The fish that are in the river shall die, and
  the river shall stink. The Egyptians will loathe
  to drink the water of the river. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD DRIES UP THEIR WATERS?
• READ JOB 811-12
• 11 Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can
  the reeds flourish without water?
• 12 While it is yet green and not cut down, It
  withers before any other plant. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• WHY DID LOT CHOOSE THE PLAIN OF JORDAN?
• HOW WAS IT WATERED?
• READ GENESIS 1310
• 10 Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of
  Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere
  (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah)
  like the garden of the LORD, like the land of
  Egypt as you go toward Zoar. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT THE PROMISE LAND?
• HOW WAS IT WATERED?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1110-12
• 10 The land which you go to possess is not like
  the land of Egypt from which you have come where
  you sowed your seed and watered it by foot, as a
  vegetable garden
• 11 The land which you cross over to possess is a
  land of hills and valleys, which drinks water
  from the rain of heaven,
• 12 A land for which the LORD your God cares the
  eyes of the LORD your God are always on it, from
  the beginning of the year to the very end of the
  year. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 195-7

• 5 The waters will fail from the sea, And the
  river will be wasted and dried up.
• 6 The rivers will turn foul The brooks of
  defense will be emptied and dried up The reeds
  and rushes will wither.
• 7 The papyrus reeds by the River, by the mouth of
  the River, And everything sown by the River, Will
  wither, be driven away, and be no more.
• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD DRIES UP THEIR WATERS?
• READ ZECHARIAH 1011
• 11 He shall pass through the sea with affliction
  And strike the waves of the sea. All the depths
  of the River shall dry up. The pride of Assyria
  shall be brought down And the scepter of Egypt
  shall depart. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 198-9

• 8 The fishermen also will mourn All those will
  lament who cast hooks into the River, And they
  will languish who spread nets on the waters.
• 9 Moreover those who work in fine flax And those
  who weave fine fabric will be ashamed

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 198-9

• 8 The fishermen also will mourn All those will
  lament who cast hooks into the River, And they
  will languish who spread nets on the waters.
• 9 Moreover those who work in fine flax And those
  who weave fine fabric will be ashamed
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE FISHERMEN? WHY?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO WORK FLAX AND
  WEAVE?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEIR FOUNDATIONS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 198-9

• 8 The fishermen also will mourn All those will
  lament who cast hooks into the River, And they
  will languish who spread nets on the waters.
• HOW DID THE LORD BLESS THE FISHERMEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 478-10
• 8 He said to me This water flows toward the
  eastern region, goes down into the valley and
  enters the sea. When it reaches the sea, its
  waters are healed.
• 9 It shall be that every living thing that
  moves, wherever the rivers go, will live. There
  will be a very great multitude of fish, because
  these waters go there. They will be healed and
  everything will live wherever the river goes.
• 10 It shall be that fishermen will stand by it
  from En Gedi to En Eglaim. They will be places
  for spreading their nets. Their fish will be of
  the same kinds as the fish of the Great Sea,
  exceedingly many.

40
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 198-9

• 8 The fishermen also will mourn All those will
  lament who cast hooks into the River, And they
  will languish who spread nets on the waters.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN THE LORD IS NOT PLEASED?
• READ AMOS 42
• 2 The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness
  Behold, the days shall come upon you When He
  will take you away with fishhooks And your
  posterity with fishhooks. NKJV
• WHY?
• READ HABAKKUK 114-16
• 14 Why do You make men like fish of the sea, Like
  creeping things that have no ruler over them?
• 15 They take up all of them with a hook, They
  catch them in their net And gather them in their
  dragnet. Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
• 16 They sacrifice to their net And burn incense
  to their dragnet Because by them their share is
  sumptuous And their food plentiful. NKJV

41
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 198-9

• HOW DID THE LORD BLESS HIS PEOPLE?
• WHERE DID THESE FINE LINENS COME FROM?
• READ PROVERBS 716
• 16 I have spread my bed with tapestry Colored
  coverings of Egyptian linen. NKJV
• READ EZEKIEL 277
• 7 Fine embroidered linen from Egypt was what you
  spread for your sail. Blue and purple from the
  coasts of Elishah was what covered you. NKJV

42
READ ISAIAH 1910

• 10 And its foundations will be broken. All who
  make wages will be troubled of soul. NKJV
• 10 And the pillars (of Egypt) shall be broken in
  pieces all they that work for hire (shall be)
  grieved in soul. ASV
• 10 And they shall be broken in the purposes
  thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for
  fish. KJV
• 10 The workers in cloth will be dejected and all
  the wage earners will be sick at heart. NIV

43
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1910

• 10 And its foundations will be broken. All who
  make wages will be troubled of soul.
• WHAT FOUNDATIONS WILL BE BROKEN?
• WHAT IS THE LORDS CONCERN FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• WHY ARE THE WAGE EARNERS TROUBLED IN THEIR SOUL?
• WHAT IS THE LORDS CONCERN FOR THE WAGE EARNER?

44
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1910

• 10 And its foundations will be broken. All who
  make wages will be troubled of soul.
• WHAT FOUNDATIONS WILL BE BROKEN?
• WHAT IS THE LORDS CONCERNED FOR THE RIGHTEOUS?
• READ PSALMS 111-3
• 1 In the LORD I put my trust How can you say to
  my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?
• 2 Look! The wicked bend their bow, They make
  ready their arrow on the string, That they may
  shoot secretly at the upright in heart.
• 3 If the foundations are destroyed, What can the
  righteous do?
• NKJV

45
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1910

• 10 And its foundations will be broken. All who
  make wages will be troubled of soul.
• WHY ARE THE WAGE EARNERS TROUBLED IN THEIR SOUL?
• WHAT IS THE LORDS CONCERN FOR THE WAGE EARNER?
• READ LEVITICUS 1913
• 13 You shall not cheat your neighbor, nor rob
  him. The wages of him who is hired shall not
  remain with you all night until morning.
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2414-15
• 14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is
  poor and needy, whether one of your brethren or
  one of the aliens who is in your land within your
  gates.
• 15 Each day you shall give him his wages, and not
  let the sun go down on it, for he is poor and has
  set his heart on it lest he cry out against you
  to the LORD, and it be sin to you. NKJV

46
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1910

• 10 And its foundations will be broken. All who
  make wages will be troubled of soul.
• WHY ARE THE WAGE EARNERS TROUBLED IN THEIR SOUL?
• WHAT IS THE LORDS CONCERN FOR THE WAGE EARNER?
• READ JEREMIAH 2213
• 13 Woe to him who builds his house by
  unrighteousness And his chambers by injustice He
  who uses his neighbor's service without wages And
  gives him nothing for his work, NKJV
• READ MALACHI 35
• 5 I will come near you for judgment I will be a
  swift witness
• Against sorcerers, Against adulterers, Against
  perjurers, Against those who exploit wage earners
  and widows and orphans, And against those who
  turn away an alien Because they do not fear
  Me, Says the LORD of hosts. NKJV

47
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?
• 12 Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let
  them tell you now, And let them know what the
  LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
• 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.

48
QUESTIONS 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?
• 12 Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let
  them tell you now, And let them know what the
  LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
• 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.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ZOAN?
• WHAT DID HE CALL THE PRINCES OF ZOAN?
• WHAT DID THEY SAY TO PHAROAH?
• WHERE DID THESE MEN OBTAIN THEIR WISDOM?
• HOW DID THEIR WISDOM COMPARE TO
• THE WISDOM OF JOSEPH? MOSES? OR SOLOMON?
• DID THE PRINCES OF ZOAN AND NOPH LEAD EGYPT
  ASTRAY?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ZOAN AND NOPH?

49
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• WHAT DID THE LORD DO IN THE FIELD OF 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 And He made the waters stand up like a
  heap. NKJV
• READ PSALMS 7843-45
• 43 He worked His signs in Egypt, And His wonders
  in the field of Zoan
• 44 Turned their rivers into blood, And their
  streams, that they could not drink.
• 45 He sent swarms of flies among them, which
  devoured them,
• And frogs, which destroyed them. NKJV

50
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• WHERE DID THESE MEN OBTAIN THEIR WISDOM?
• HOW DID THEIR WISDOM COMPARE TO JOSEPH?
• READ GENESIS 4137-39
• 37 The advice was good in the eyes of Pharaoh and
  in the eyes of all his servants.
• 38 Pharaoh said to his servants, Can we find
  such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit
  of God?
• 39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, Inasmuch as God has
  shown you all this, there is no one as discerning
  and wise as you. NKJV
• HOW DID THEIR WISDOM COMPARE TO MOSES?
• READ ACTS 722
• 22 Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the
  Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.
  NKJV

51
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• WHERE DID THESE MEN OBTAIN THEIR WISDOM?
• HOW DID THEIR WISDOM COMPARE TO SOLOMON?
• EAD 1 KINGS 429-31
• 29 God gave Solomon wisdom, and exceedingly great
  understanding and largeness of heart like the
  sand on the seashore. 30 Solomon's wisdom
  excelled the wisdom of all the men of the East
  and all the wisdom of Egypt.
• 31 For he was wiser than all men than Ethan the
  Ezrahite, and Heman, Chalcol, and Darda, the sons
  of Mahol and his fame was in all the surrounding
  nations. NKJV

52
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• 12 Where are they? Where are your wise men? Let
  them tell you now, And let them know what the
  LORD of hosts has purposed against Egypt.
• 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.
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE PRINCES OF ZOAN AND NOPH?
• HOW DID THEY BECOME FOOLS?
• READ 1 CORINTHIANS 120
• 20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where
  is the disputer of this age? Has not God made
  foolish the wisdom of this world? NKJV
• DID THE PRINCES OF ZOAN AND NOPH LEAD EGYPT
  ASTRAY?
• READ JEREMIAH 216
• 16 The people of Noph and Tahpanhes Have broken
  the crown of your head. NKJV

53
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• 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.
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ZOAN AND NOPH?
• READ JEREMIAH 441-2
• 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 and behold, this day they are a
  desolation, and no one dwells in them, NKJV

54
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• 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.
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ZOAN AND NOPH?
• 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. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 4619
• 19 O you daughter dwelling in Egypt, Prepare
  yourself to go into captivity! Noph shall be
  waste and desolate, without inhabitant.

55
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1911-13

• 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.
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ZOAN AND NOPH?
• READ EZEKIEL 3013-16
• 13 Thus says the Lord GOD I will destroy the
  idols And cause the images to cease from Noph
  There shall no longer be princes from the land of
  Egypt I will put fear in the land of Egypt.
• 14 I will make Pathros desolate, Set fire to
  Zoan, And execute judgments in No.
• 15 I will pour My fury on Sin, the strength of
  Egypt I will cut off the multitude of No,
• 16 And set a fire in Egypt Sin shall have great
  pain, No shall be split open, And Noph shall be
  in distress daily. NKJV

56
READ ISAIAH 1914-15

• 14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her
  midst And they have caused Egypt to err in all
  her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
• 15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt,
  Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush,
  may do.

57
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1914-15

• 14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her
  midst And they have caused Egypt to err in all
  her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
• 15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt,
  Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush,
  may do.
• WHAT HAS THE LORD MINGLED IN HER MIDST?
• A PERVERSE SPIRIT?
• HOW DOES THIS EFFECT EGYPT?
• LIKE A DRUNKEN PERSON?
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN THERE IS NO WORK FOR EGYPT?

58
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1914-15

• 14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her
  midst And they have caused Egypt to err in all
  her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
• WHAT HAS THE LORD MINGLED IN HER MIDST?
• A PERVERSE SPIRIT?
• HOW DOES THIS EFFECT EGYPT?
• LIKE A DRUNKEN PERSON?
• READ PSLAMS 10727
• 27 They reel to and fro, and stagger like a
  drunken man, And are at their wits' end. NKJV
• READ PROVERBS 128
• 8 A man will be commended according to his
  wisdom, But he who is of a perverse heart will be
  despised. NKJV

59
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1914-15

• 14 The LORD has mingled a perverse spirit in her
  midst And they have caused Egypt to err in all
  her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
• 15 Neither will there be any work for Egypt,
  Which the head or tail, Palm branch or bulrush,
  may do.
• WHAT DOES IT MEAN THERE IS NO WORK FOR EGYPT?
• IS THERE ANYTHING SHE CAN DO TO HELP HERSELF?
• CAN SHE MAKE HEADS OR TAILS OF HER PREDICAMENT?

60
READ ISAIAH 1916-17

• 16 In that day Egypt will be like women, and will
  be afraid and fear because of the waving of the
  hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves over
  it.
• 17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to
  Egypt everyone who makes mention of it will be
  afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the
  LORD of hosts which He has determined against it.

61
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1916-17

• 16 In that day Egypt will be like women, and will
  be afraid and fear because of the waving of the
  hand of the LORD of hosts, which He waves over
  it.
• 17 And the land of Judah will be a terror to
  Egypt everyone who makes mention of it will be
  afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the
  LORD of hosts which He has determined against it.
  
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE MIGHTY MEN OF EGYPT?
• BECOME LIKE WOMEN? FEARLFUL?
• IS THIS THE LORDS DOING?
• HOW DID THE LORD PROTECT JACOB AND HIS FAMILY?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL?

62
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1916-17

• DID THE LORD PROTECT JACOB AND HIS FAMILY?
• READ GENESIS 351-7
• 2 Jacob said to his household and to all who were
  with him, Put away the foreign gods that are
  among you, purify yourselves, and change your
  garments.
• 3 Let us arise and go up to Bethel. I will make
  an altar there to God, who answered me in the day
  of my distress and has been with me in the way
  which I have gone.
• 4 They gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were
  in their hands and the earrings which were in
  their ears. Jacob hid them under the terebinth
  tree which was by Shechem.
• 5 They journeyed and the terror of God was upon
  the cities that were all around them and they did
  not pursue the sons of Jacob. NKJV

63
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1916-17

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 224-25
• 24 Rise, take your journey, and cross over the
  River Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand
  Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land.
  Begin to possess it, and engage him in battle.
• 25 This day I will begin to put the dread and
  fear of you upon the nations under the whole
  heaven. They shall hear the report of you and
  shall tremble and be in anguish because of
  you. NKJV
• READ HEBREWS 1031
• 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands
  of the living God.

64
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1916-17

• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE MIGHTY MEN OF EGYPT?
• BECOME LIKE WOMEN? FEARLFUL?
• IS THIS THE LORDS DOING?
• READ JEREMIAH 5037
• 37 A sword is against their horses, Against their
  chariots And against all the mixed peoples who
  are in her midst. They will become like women. A
  sword is against her treasures and they will be
  robbed. NKJV
• READ JEREMIAH 5130
• 30 The mighty men of Babylon have ceased
  fighting. They have remained in their
  strongholds. Their might has failed and They
  became like women. They have burned her dwelling
  places and The bars of her gate are broken. NKJV
• READ NAHUM 313
• 13 Surely, your people in your midst are women!
  The gates of your land are wide open for your
  enemies. Fire shall devour the bars of your
  gates. NKJV

65
READ ISAIAH 1918

• EGYPT, ASSYRIA, AND ISRAEL BLESSED
• 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
  will speak the language of Canaan and swear by
  the LORD of hosts one will be called the City of
  Destruction.

66
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1918

• EGYPT, ASSYRIA, AND ISRAEL BLESSED
• 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
  will speak the language of Canaan and swear by
  the LORD of hosts one will be called the City of
  Destruction.
• IS THIS LITERALLY FIVE CITIES? OR SOME
  CITIES?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN SOME OF THE CITIES OF EGYPT?
• THEY WILL SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF CANAAN?
• THEY WILL SWEAR BY THE LORD OF HOSTS?
• WHAT WILL ONE CITY BE CALLED? CITY OF
  DESTRUCTION?
• WHY?

67
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1918

• 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
  will speak the language of Canaan and swear by
  the LORD of hosts one will be called the City of
  Destruction.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN SOME OF THE CITIES OF
  EGYPT?
• WHAT WERE SOME OF THESE CITIES?
• READ JEREMIAH 441
• 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 NKJV
• WHY WOULD THEY SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF CANAAN?

68
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1918

• 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
  will speak the language of Canaan and swear by
  the LORD of hosts one will be called the City of
  Destruction.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN SOME OF THE CITIES OF
  EGYPT?
• WHY WOULD THEY SPEAK THE LANGUAGE OF CANAAN?
• READ ZEPHANIAH 39
• 9 I will restore to the peoples a pure language
  That they all may call on the name of the LORD,
  To serve Him with one accord.

69
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1918

• 18 In that day five cities in the land of Egypt
  will speak the language of Canaan and swear by
  the LORD of hosts one will be called the City of
  Destruction.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN SOME OF THE CITIES OF
  EGYPT?
• THEY WILL SWEAR BY THE LORD OF HOSTS?
• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL ISRAEL ABOUT MAKING OATHS?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 1020
• 20 You shall fear the LORD your God And You shall
  serve Him. To Him you shall hold fast and take
  oaths in His name. NKJV
• WHAT WILL THEY SWEAR?
• READ JEREMIAH 42
• 2 You shall swear The LORD lives, In truth, in
  judgment and in righteousness. The nations shall
  bless themselves in Him And in Him they shall
  glory. NKJV

70
READ ISAIAH 1919-20

• 19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD
  in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
  to the LORD at its border.
• 20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to
  the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt for they
  will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors,
  and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One,
  and He will deliver them.

71
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• 19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD
  in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
  to the LORD at its border.
• 20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to
  the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt for they
  will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors,
  and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One,
  and He will deliver them.
• WHAT WILL BE IN THE MIDST OF EGYPT?
• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THIS ALTAR?
• WHY WILL THEY CRY TO LORD?
• WHO WILL THE LORD SEND THEM?

72
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• 19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD
  in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
  to the LORD at its border.
• 20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to
  the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt for they
  will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors,
  and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One,
  and He will deliver them.
• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF AN ALTAR?
• WHY DID NOAH BUILD AN LATAR TO THE LORD?
• READ GENESIS 820-21
• 20 Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of
  every clean animal and of every clean bird, and
  offered burnt offerings on the altar.
• 21 The LORD smelled a soothing aroma. The LORD
  said in His heart, I will never again curse the
  ground for man's sake, although the imagination
  of man's heart is evil from his youth nor will I
  again destroy every living thing as I have done.
  NKJV

73
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF AN ALTAR?
• WHY DID ABRAM BUILD AN ALTAR?
• READ GENESIS 127-8
• 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said, To your
  descendants I will give this land. There he
  built an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to
  him. NKJV
• WHY DID MOSES BUILD AN ALTAR?
• READ EXODUS 1715
• 15 Moses built an altar and called its name,
  The-LORD-Is-My-Banner NKJV

74
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF AN ALTAR?
• WHAT DID JACOB BUILD? PILLAR? ALTAR?
• READ GENESIS 2818-19
• 18 Jacob rose early in the morning and took the
  stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a
  pillar and poured oil on top of it.
• 19 He called the name of that place Bethel but
  the name of that city had been Luz
  previously. NKJV
• READ GENESIS 3113
• 13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed the
  pillar and where you made a vow to Me. Now arise,
  get out of this land, and return to the land of
  your family. NKJV

75
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF AN ALTAR?
• WHAT DID JACOB BUILD? PILLAR? ALTAR?
• READ GENESIS 351
• 1 God said to Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel and
  dwell there and make an altar there to God, who
  appeared to you when you fled from the face of
  Esau your brother. NKJV
• READ GENESIS 3514-15
• 14 Jacob set up a pillar in the place where He
  talked with him, a pillar of stone. He poured a
  drink offering on it and he poured oil on it.
• 15 Jacob called the name of the place where God
  spoke with him, Bethel. NKJV

76
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• 19 In that day there will be an altar to the LORD
  in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar
  to the LORD at its border.
• 20 And it will be for a sign and for a witness to
  the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt for they
  will cry to the LORD because of the oppressors,
  and He will send them a Savior and a Mighty One,
  and He will deliver them.
• WHY WILL THEY CRY OUT TO THE LORD?
• WHEN THEY CRIED OUT TO THE LORD, WHO DELIVERED
  THEM?
• MOSES? THE LORD?
• JUDGES OTHNIEL? EHUD?
• KING OF ISRAEL DAVID? JOASH?
• DANIEL? ESTHER?

77
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHEN ISRAEL SINNED AGAINST THE LORD
• WHO PLEADED WITH THE LORD NOT TO DESTROY THEM?
• MOSES?
• READ PSALMS 10621-23
• 21 They forgot God their Savior, Who had done
  great things in Egypt,
• 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, Awesome
  things by the Red Sea.
• 23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them.
  Had not Moses His chosen one stood before Him in
  the breach To turn away His wrath, lest He
  destroy them. NKJV

78
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHEN THEY CRIED OUT, WHO DELIVERED THEM?
• THE LORD?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 201-4
• 1 When you go out to battle against your enemies
  and see horses and chariots and people more
  numerous than you, do not be afraid of them. For
  the LORD your God is with you, who brought you up
  from the land of Egypt.
• 2 It shall be when you are on the verge of battle
  that the priest shall approach and speak to the
  people.
• 3 He shall say to them, Hear, O Israel Today
  you are on the verge of battle with your enemies.
  Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid and
  do not tremble or be terrified because of them
• 4 For the LORD your God is He who goes with you,
  to fight for you against your enemies, to save
  you. NKJV

79
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHEN ISRAEL REJECTED THE LORD?
• WHO DELIVERED THEM? NO ONE?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2825-29
• 25 The LORD will cause you to be defeated before
  your enemies. You shall go out one way against
  them and flee seven ways before them. You shall
  become troublesome to all the kingdoms of the
  earth.
• 26 Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds
  of the air and the beasts of the earth. And no
  one shall frighten them away.
• 27 The LORD will strike you with the boils of
  Egypt, with tumors, with the scab and with the
  itch, from which you cannot be healed.
• 28 The LORD will strike you with madness and
  blindness and confusion of heart.
• 29 You shall grope at noonday as a blind man
  gropes in darkness. You shall not prosper in your
  ways. You shall be only oppressed and plundered
  continually. And no one shall save you.

80
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHO DID THE LORD RAISE UP TO DELIVER THEM?
• JUDGES?
• READ JUDGES 216-19
• 16 The LORD raised up judges who delivered them
  out of the hand of those who plundered them.
• 17 They would not listen to their judges But they
  played the harlot with other gods and bowed down
  to them. They turned quickly from the way in
  which their fathers walked in obeying the
  commandments of the LORD. They did not do so.
• 18 When the LORD raised up judges for them, the
  LORD was with the judge and delivered them out of
  the hand of their enemies all the days of the
  judge. For the LORD was moved to pity by their
  groaning Because of those who oppressed them and
  harassed them.
• 19 When the judge was dead, They reverted and
  behaved more corruptly than their fathers, by
  following other gods, to serve them and bow down
  to them. They did not cease from their own doings
  nor from their stubborn way. NKJV

81
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHO DID THE LORD RAISE UP TO DELIVER THEM?
• OTHNIEL?
• READ JUDGES 39-11
• 9 When the children of Israel cried out to the
  LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the
  children of Israel, who delivered them Othniel
  the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
• 10 The Spirit of the LORD came upon him and he
  judged Israel. He went out to war and the LORD
  delivered Cushan-Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia
  into his hand. His hand prevailed over
  Cushan-Rishathaim.
• 11 The land had rest for forty years, Then
  Othniel the son of Kenaz died. NKJV
• EHUD?
• READ JUDGES 315
• 15 When the children of Israel cried out to the
  LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for them
  Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a
  left-handed man. By him the children of Israel
  sent tribute to Eglon king of Moab. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHO DELIVERED DAVID FROM HIS ENEMIES?
• THE LORD?
• READ 2 SAMUEL 221-4
• 1 David spoke to the LORD the words of this song,
  on the day when the LORD had delivered him from
  the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of
  Saul.
• 2 He said The LORD is my rock and my fortress
  and my deliverer
• 3 The God of my strength, in whom I will trust
  My shield and the horn of my salvation, My
  stronghold and my refuge My Savior, You save me
  from violence.
• 4 I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be
  praised And I shall be saved from my enemies.
  NKJV

83
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHEN JOHOAHAZ PLEADED WITH THE LORD,
• WHO DID THE LORD SEND TO DELIVER ISRAEL?
• JOASH?
• READ 2 KINGS 133-5
• 3 The anger of the LORD was aroused against
  Israel and He delivered them into the hand of
  Hazael king of Syria and into the hand of
  Ben-Hadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
• 4 Jehoahaz pleaded with the LORD and the LORD
  listened to him. He saw the oppression of Israel
  because the king of Syria oppressed them.
• 5 The LORD gave Israel a deliverer So that they
  escaped from under the hand of the Syrians. And
  the children of Israel dwelt in their tents as
  before. NKJV
• READ 2 KINGS 1325
• 25 Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from
  the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the
  cities which he had taken out of the hand of
  Jehoahaz his father by war. Three times Joash
  defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.
  NKJV

84
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1919-20

• WHO DELIVERED THEM? THE LORD?
• READ ISAIAH 433
• 3 I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel,
  your Savior. I gave Egypt for your ransom,
  Ethiopia and Seba in your place. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 4311-13
• 11 I, even I, am the LORD. Besides Me there is no
  savior.
• 12 I have declared and saved. I have proclaimed
  And there was no foreign god among you. You are
  My witnesses that I am God, Says the LORD.
• 13 Indeed before the day was, I am He. There is
  no one who can deliver out of My hand. I work and
  who will reverse it? NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 1921-22

• 21 Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the
  Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and
  will make sacrifice and offering yes, they will
  make a vow to the LORD and perform it.
• 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike
  and heal it they will return to the LORD, and He
  will be entreated by them and heal them.

86
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 21 Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the
  Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and
  will make sacrifice and offering yes, they will
  make a vow to the LORD and perform it.
• 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike
  and heal it they will return to the LORD, and He
  will be entreated by them and heal them.
• WHO WILL EGYPTIANS KNOW? THE LORD GOD?
• HOW WILL THEY RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• WHY DID THE LORD STRIKE EGYPT? TO HEAL THEM?

87
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 21 Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the
  Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and
  will make sacrifice and offering yes, they will
  make a vow to the LORD and perform it.
• 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike
  and heal it they will return to the LORD, and He
  will be entreated by them and heal them.
• WHO WILL EGYPTIANS KNOW? THE LORD GOD?
• HOW WILL THE EGYPTIANS RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• WHAT DID THE LORD REQUIRE CONCERNING A VOW?
• VOW - PROMISE TO GOD
• WHY DID THE LORD STRIKE EGYPT?
• THAT THEY MIGHT RETURN TO HIM? (REPENT)?
• THAT THE LORD MIGHT HEAL THEM?

88
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 21 Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the
  Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and
  will make sacrifice and offering yes, they will
  make a vow to the LORD and perform it.
• WHO WILL EGYPTIANS KNOW? THE LORD GOD?
• HOW WILL THE EGYPTIANS RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• WHAT DID DAVID SAY ALL NATIONS WOULD DO?
• READ PSALMS 868-9
• 8 Among the gods there is none like You, O Lord
  Nor are there any works like Your works.
• 9 All nations whom You have made Shall come and
  worship before You, O Lord, And shall glorify
  Your name. NKJV

89
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 21 Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the
  Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and
  will make sacrifice and offering yes, they will
  make a vow to the LORD and perform it.
• WHO WILL EGYPTIANS KNOW? THE LORD GOD?
• HOW WILL THEY RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY THE GENTILES WOULD DO?
• READ MALACHI 111
• 11 From the rising of the sun, even to its going
  down, My name shall be great among the Gentiles.
  In every place incense shall be offered to My
  name And a pure offering. For My name shall be
  great among the nations, Says the LORD of hosts.
  NKJV

90
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 21 Then the LORD will be known to Egypt, and the
  Egyptians will know the LORD in that day, and
  will make sacrifice and offering yes, they will
  make a vow to the LORD and perform it.
• HOW WILL THEY RESPOND TO THE LORD?
• WHAT DID THE LORD REQUIRE CONCERNING A VOW?
• VOW - PROMISE TO GOD
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2321
• 21 When you make a vow to the LORD your God, you
  shall not delay to pay it. For the LORD your God
  will surely require it of you and it would be sin
  to you. NKJV
• READ ECCLESIASTES 54-5
• 4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to pay
  it. For He has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you
  have vowed
• 5 Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
  NKJV

91
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike
  and heal it they will return to the LORD, and He
  will be entreated by them and heal them.
• WHY DID THE LORD STRIKE EGYPT?
• THAT THEY MIGHT RETURN TO THE LORD? (REPENT)?
• THAT THE LORD MIGHT HEAL THEM?
• OLD TESTAMENT REPENT TURN BACK OR RETURN
• NEW TESTAMENT REPENT RE-CONSIDER

92
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike
  and heal it they will return to the LORD, and He
  will be entreated by them and heal them.
• WHY DID THE LORD STRIKE EGYPT?
• READ EXODUS 119-10
• 10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before
  Pharaoh. And the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart
  And he did not let the children of Israel go out
  of his land. NKJV
• READ EXODUS 1223-24
• 23 The LORD will pass through to strike the
  Egyptians. When He sees the blood on the lintel
  and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over
  the door and not allow the destroyer to come into
  your houses to strike you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 1921-22

• 22 And the LORD will strike Egypt, He will strike
  and heal it they will return to the LORD, and He
  will be entreated by them and heal them.
• WHY DID THE LORD STRIKE EGYPT? TO HEAL IT?
• WHAT DOES THE LORD HAVE POWER TO DO?
• READ DEUTERONOMY 3239
• 39 See that I, even