ISAIAH CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

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• ISAIAH CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

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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 (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 TWENTY-THREE

• NEBUCHADNEZZAR WILL DESTROY TYRE V. 1-14
• TYRE WILL RECOVER AFTER 70 YEARS V. 15-18

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READ ISAIAH 231-3

• PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE
• 1 The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of
  Tarshish! For it is laid waste, So that there is
  no house, no harbor From the land of Cyprus it
  is revealed to them.
• 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, You
  merchants of Sidon, Whom those who cross the sea
  have filled.
• 3 And on great waters the grain of Shihor, The
  harvest of the River, is her revenue And she is
  a marketplace for the nations.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• PROPHECY AGAINST TYRE 585-572BC?
• 1 The burden against Tyre. Wail, you ships of
  Tarshish! For it is laid waste, So that there is
  no house, no harbor From the land of Cyprus it
  is revealed to them.
• 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, You
  merchants of Sidon, Whom those who cross the sea
  have filled.
• 3 And on great waters the grain of Shihor, The
  harvest of the River, is her revenue And she is
  a marketplace for the nations.
• WHO IS THIS PROPHECY ABOUT? TYRE?
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE? SIDON?
• WHY ARE THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH WAILING?
• WHY PROPHESY AGAINST TYRE SIDON?
• WHAT IS THE HARVEST OF THE WATERS OF SHIHOR?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT TYRE?
• WHO WAS KING OF TYRE? HIRAM?
• WHAT DID HIRAM DO FOR DAVID?
• READ 2 SAMUEL 511-12
• 11 Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David
  They brought cedar trees and carpenters and
  masons And They built David a house.
• 12 Therefore David knew that the LORD had
  established him as king over Israel And that He
  had exalted His kingdom for the sake of His
  people Israel.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHO WAS KING OF TYRE? HIRAM?
• WHY DID HIRAM HELP SOLOMON?
• READ 1 KINGS 51
• 1 Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to
  Solomon, Because he heard that they had anointed
  him king in place of his father, for Hiram had
  always loved David.
• READ 1 KINGS 911
• 11 Hiram the king of Tyre had supplied Solomon
  with cedar and cypress and gold, as much as he
  desired. And Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in
  the land of Galilee.
• READ 1 KINGS 1022
• 22 Solomon had merchant ships at sea with the
  fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the
  merchant ships came bringing gold, silver, ivory,
  apes, and monkeys.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHO WERE THE SIDONIANS?
• DESCEDENTS OF HAM?
• READ GENESIS 106 15-18
• 6 The sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and
  Canaan.
• 15 Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn, and Heth
• 16 The Jebusite, the Amorite, and the Girgashite
• 17 The Hivite, the Arkite, and the Sinite
• 18 The Arvadite, the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.
  Afterward the families of the Canaanites were
  dispersed.
• (1 CHRONICLES 18-16)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHERE DID ZEBULUN DWELL?
• READ GENESIS 4913
• 13 Zebulun shall dwell by the haven of the sea.
  He shall become a haven for ships and his border
  shall adjoin Sidon. NKJV
• WHAT DID ASHER FAIL TO DO?
• READ JUDGES 131-32
• 31 Asher did not drive out the inhabitants of
  Acco, of Sidon, of Ahlab, Achzib, Helbah, Aphik,
  or Rehob.
• 32 The Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the
  inhabitants of the land for they did not drive
  them out.
• WHAT DID ISRAEL DO?
• READ JUDGES 106
• 10 The children of Israel again did evil in the
  sight of the LORD and served the Baals, the
  Ashtoreths, and served the gods of Syria, of
  Sidon , of Moab, of Ammon and of the Philistines.
  They forsook the LORD and did not serve Him. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID SOLOMON SAY ABOUT THE SIDONIANS?
• READ 1 KINGS 55-6
• 5 Behold, I propose to build a house for the name
  of the LORD my God, as the LORD spoke to my
  father David, Saying, Your son, whom I will set
  on your throne in your place, he shall build the
  house for My name.
• 6 Therefore, Command that they cut down cedars
  for me from Lebanon. My servants will be with
  your servants. I will pay you wages for your
  servants according to whatever you say. For you
  know there is none among us who has skill to cut
  timber like the Sidonians. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID JEREMAIH PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT DID THE YOKES REPRESENT?
• READ JEREMIAH 271-8
• 1 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the
  son of Josiah, king of Judah, this word came to
  Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
• 2 Thus says the LORD to me Make for yourselves
  bonds and yokes, and put them on your neck.
• 3 Send them to the king of Edom, the king of
  Moab, the king of the Ammonites, the king of Tyre
  and the king of Sidon, by the hand of the
  messengers who come to Jerusalem to Zedekiah king
  of Judah.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID JEREMAIH PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHO WOULD TAKE THEM CAPTIVE?
• READ JEREMIAH 271-8
• 4 Command them to say to their masters, Thus says
  the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel. Thus you
  shall say to your masters
• 5 I have made the earth, the man and the beast
  that are on the ground, by My great power and by
  My outstretched arm. And I have given it to whom
  it seemed proper to Me.
• 6 I have given all these lands into the hand of
  Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant.
  The beasts of the field I have also given him to
  serve him.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID JEREMAIH PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WAS THE ALTERNATIVE?
• READ JEREMIAH 271-8
• 7 All nations shall serve him and his son and
  his son's son, until the time of his land comes.
  Then many nations and great kings shall make him
  serve them.
• 8 It shall be, that the nation and kingdom which
  will not serve Nebuchadnezzar the king of
  Babylon, and which will not put its neck under
  the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation I
  will punish, says the LORD, with the sword, the
  famine, and the pestilence, until I have consumed
  them by his hand. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT DID TYRE SAY ABOUT JERUSALEM?
• READ EZEKIEL 261-6
• 1 It came to pass in the eleventh year, on the
  first day of the month, that the word of the LORD
  came to me, saying,
• 2 Because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha!
  She is broken who was the gateway of the peoples.
  Now she is turned over to me. I shall be filled
  and she is laid waste.
• 3 Thus says the Lord GOD Behold, I am against
  you, O Tyre. I will cause many nations to come up
  against you, as the sea causes its waves to come
  up.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WOULD THE LORD DO TO TYRE?
• READ EZEKIEL 261-6
• 4 They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break
  down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from
  her, and make her like the top of a rock.
• 5 It shall be a place for spreading nets in the
  midst of the sea For I have spoken, says the
  Lord GOD. It shall become plunder for the
  nations.
• 6 Her daughter villages which are in the fields
  shall be slain by the sword. They shall know that
  I am the LORD.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WAS THE STATUS OF TYRE?
• READ EZEKIEL 271-7
• 1 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
• 2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyre,
• 3 Say to Tyre, You who are situated at the
  entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples on
  many coastlands, thus says the Lord GOD O
  Tyre, you have said, I am perfect in beauty.
• 4 Your borders are in the midst of the seas.
  Your builders have perfected your beauty.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WAS TYRE KNOWN FOR?
• READ EZEKIEL 271-7
• 5 They made all your planks of fir trees from
  Senir. They took a cedar from Lebanon to make you
  a mast.
• 6 They made your oars of oaks from Bashan. The
  company of Ashurites have inlaid your planks with
  ivory from the coasts of Cyprus.
• 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.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHO BUILT HER SHIPS?
• WHO WERE HER PILOTS? OARSMEN?
• READ EZEKIEL 278-9
• 8 Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your
  oarsmen. Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you. They
  became your pilots.
• 9 Elders of Gebal and its wise men Were in you
  to caulk your seams. All the ships of the sea And
  their oarsmen were in you To market your
  merchandise.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE SHIPS OF TARSHISH?
• WHO MADE TYRE FAMOUS?
• READ EZEKIEL 2725-27
• 25 The ships of Tarshish were carriers of your
  merchandise. You were filled and very glorious in
  the midst of the seas.
• 26 Your oarsmen brought you into many waters, But
  the east wind broke you in the midst of the seas.
  
• 27 Your riches, wares, and merchandise, Your
  mariners and pilots, Your caulkers and
  merchandisers,
• All your men of war who are in you And the entire
  company which is in your midst, Will fall into
  the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT DID THE PRINCE OF TYRE SAY?
• READ EZEKIEL 281-10
• 1 The word of the LORD came to me again, saying,
• 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus
  says the Lord GOD Because your heart is lifted
  up And you say, I am a god, I sit in the seat of
  gods, In the midst of the seas. Yet you are a man
  and not a god, Though you set your heart as the
  heart of a god.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WAS HER DOWNFALL?
• HER WISDOM? HER TREASURES?
• READ EZEKIEL 281-10
• 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel! There is
  no secret that can be hidden from you!
• 4 With your wisdom and your understanding you
  have gained riches for yourself and gathered gold
  and silver into your treasuries.
• 5 By your great wisdom in trade you have
  increased your riches, Your heart is lifted up
  Because of your riches.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHO WILL THE LORD BRING AGAINST HER? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 281-10
• 6 Thus says the Lord GOD Because you have set
  your heart as the heart of a god.
• 7 Behold, I will bring strangers against you,
  the most terrible of the nations. They shall draw
  their swords against the beauty of your wisdom
  and defile your splendor.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 281-10
• 8 They shall throw you down into the Pit and you
  shall die the death of the slain In the midst of
  the seas.
• 9 Will you still say before him who slays you, I
  am a god? You shall be a man and not a god, In
  the hand of him who slays you.
• 10 You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
  by the hand of aliens. I have spoken, says the
  Lord GOD.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHO ESTABLISHED TYRE? THE LORD?
• READ EZEKIEL 2811-17
• 11 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
• 12 Son of man, take up a lamentation for the
  king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord
  GOD You were the seal of perfection, full of
  wisdom and perfect in beauty.
• 13 You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every
  precious stone was your covering The sardius,
  topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper,
  Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The
  workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was
  prepared for you on the day you were created.
• 14 You were the anointed cherub who covers. I
  established you. You were on the holy mountain of
  God. You walked back and forth in the midst of
  fiery stones.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO TYRE?
• READ EZEKIEL 2811-17
• 15 You were perfect in your ways from the day
  you were created, Till iniquity was found in
  you.
• 16 By the abundance of your trading you became
  filled with violence within and you sinned.
  Therefore I cast you as a profane thing out of
  the mountain of God. I destroyed you, O
  covering cherub, from the midst of the fiery
  stones.
• 17 Your heart was lifted up because of your
  beauty. You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of
  your splendor. I cast you to the ground. I laid
  you before kings, that they might gaze at you.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO TYRE?
• WHAT WAS HER DOWNFALL?
• READ EZEKIEL 2818-19
• 18 You defiled your sanctuaries by the multitude
  of your iniquities, by the iniquity of your
  trading. I brought fire from your midst and It
  devoured you. I turned you to ashes upon the
  earth In the sight of all who saw you.
• 19 All who knew you among the peoples are
  astonished at you. You have become a horror and
  shall be no more forever. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID JOEL PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT HAD TYRE SIDON DONE?
• READ JOEL 34-6
• 4 Indeed, What have you to do with Me, O Tyre and
  Sidon, and all the coasts of Philistia? Will you
  retaliate against Me? If you retaliate against
  Me, swiftly and speedily I will return your
  retaliation upon your own head.
• 5 Because you have taken My silver and My gold,
• And have carried into your temples My prized
  possessions.
• 6 Also the people of Judah and the people of
  Jerusalem You have sold to the Greeks That you
  may remove them far from their borders. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID AMOS PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT HAD TYRE DONE?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?
• READ AMOS 19-10
• 9 Thus says the LORD For three transgressions
  of Tyre, and for four, I will not turn away its
  punishment,
• Because they delivered up the whole captivity to
  Edom,
• And did not remember the covenant of
  brotherhood.
• 10 I will send a fire upon the wall of Tyre,
  Which shall devour its palaces. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID ZECHARIAH PROPHESY ABOUT TYRE?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHAT WILL THE LORD DO TO TYRE?
• READ ZECHARIAH 93-4
• 3 Tyre built herself a tower, heaped up silver
  like the dust, and gold like the mire of the
  streets.
• 4 Behold, the LORD will cast her out. He will
  destroy her power in the sea And she will be
  devoured by fire.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• WHAT DID EZEKIEL PROPHESY ABOUT SIDON?
• WHEN? 585-572BC?
• WHY IS THE LORD AGAINST SIDON?
• READ EZEKIEL 2820-23
• 20 The word of the LORD came to me, saying,
• 21 Son of man, Set your face toward Sidon and
  prophesy against her.
• 22 Say, Thus says the Lord GOD Behold, I am
  against you, O Sidon. I will be glorified in your
  midst. They shall know that I am the LORD, When I
  execute judgments in her and I Am hallowed in
  her.
• 23 I will send pestiIence upon her and blood in
  her streets. The wounded shall be judged in her
  midst by the sword against her on every side.
  Then they shall know that I am the LORD. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 231-3

• 2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland, You
  merchants of Sidon, Whom those who cross the sea
  have filled.
• 3 And on great waters the grain of Shihor, The
  harvest of the River, is her revenue And she is
  a marketplace for the nations.
• WHAT WAS SHIHOR?
• SHIHOR - (SIHOR)? - BLACK WATER
• EASTERN BRANCH OF THE RIVER NILE?
• WHAT WAS THE HARVEST OF THE RIVER SHIHOR?
• THE HARVEST OF GRAIN FROM EGYPT?
• READ JEREMIAH 218
• 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? NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 234-5

• 4 Be ashamed, O Sidon For the sea has spoken,
  The strength of the sea, saying, "I do not labor,
  nor bring forth children Neither do I rear young
  men,Nor bring up virgins.
• 5 When the report reaches Egypt, They also will
  be in agony at the report of Tyre.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 234-5

• 4 Be ashamed, O Sidon For the sea has spoken,
  The strength of the sea, saying, "I do not labor,
  nor bring forth children Neither do I rear young
  men, Nor bring up virgins.
• 5 When the report reaches Egypt, They also will
  be in agony at the report of Tyre.
• WHAT IS THE SEA SAYING TO SIDON?
• WHAT WAS THE SEA, TO THE PEOPLE OF SIDON?
• HOW WOULD EGYPT RESPOND TO THIS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 234-5

• 5 When the report reaches Egypt, They also will
  be in agony at the report of Tyre.
• HOW WOULD EGYPT RESPOND TO THIS?
• READ EZEKIEL 2918-20 585-572BC?
• 18 Son of man, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
  caused his army to labor strenuously against
  Tyre. Every head was made bald and every shoulder
  rubbed raw Yet neither he Nor his army received
  wages from Tyre, For the labor which they
  expended on it.
• 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 234-5

• WHO HELPED EZRA REBUILD THE TEMPLE?
• WHAT DID THE PEOPLE OF TYRE SIDON DO?
• READ EZRA 36-7
• 7 The children of Israel gave money to the masons
  and the carpenters, and food, drink, and oil to
  the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs
  from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to
  the permission which they had from Cyrus king of
  Persia. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 236-9

• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland!
• 7 Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is
  from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off
  to dwell?
• 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
  crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose
  traders are the honorable of the earth?
• 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to
  dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into
  contempt all the honorable of the earth.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland!
• 7 Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is
  from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off
  to dwell?
• 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
  crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose
  traders are the honorable of the earth?
• 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to
  dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into
  contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• WHO WERE THE PEOPLE OF TARSHISH?
• DESCEDENTS OF JAPHETH?
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE OF TARSHISH WAILING?
• WHO HAS TAKEN COUNSEL AGAINST TYRE? WHY?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland!
• WHO WERE THE PEOPLE OF TARSHISH?
• DESCEDENTS OF JAPHETH?
• READ GENESIS 101-4
• 1 This is the genealogy of the sons of Noah
  Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them
  after the flood.
• 2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai,
  Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
• 3 The sons of Gomer were Ashkenaz, Riphath, and
  Togarmah.
• 4 The sons of Javan were Elishah, Tarshish,
  Kittim, and Dodanim. (1 CHRONICLES 15-27)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland!
• WHY DID JEHOSHAPHAT WANT AHAZIAH TO DO?
• WHERE WAS HE PLANNING TO GO? WHY?
• READ 2 CHRONCILES 2035-37
• 35 Jehoshaphat king of Judah allied himself with
  Ahaziah king of Israel, who acted very wickedly.
• 36 He allied himself with him to make ships to go
  to Tarshish. And They made the ships in Ezion
  Geber.
• 37 Eliezer, son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied
  against Jehoshaphat, Saying, Because you have
  allied yourself with Ahaziah, the LORD has
  destroyed your works. The ships were wrecked, so
  that they were not able to go to Tarshish. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland!
• 7 Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is
  from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off
  to dwell?
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE OF TARSHISH WAILING??
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS JOYOUS CITY?
• READ EZEKIEL 2613-14
• 13 I will put an end to the sound of your songs
  and The sound of your harps shall be heard no
  more.
• 14 I will make you like the top of a rock. You
  shall be a place for spreading nets and you shall
  never be rebuilt, For I, the LORD have spoken,
  says the Lord GOD.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 6 Cross over to Tarshish Wail, you inhabitants
  of the coastland!
• 7 Is this your joyous city, Whose antiquity is
  from ancient days, Whose feet carried her far off
  to dwell?
• WHY ARE THE PEOPLE OF TARSHISH WAILING??
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS JOYOUS CITY?
• READ EZEKIEL 2617-18
• 17 They will take up a lamentation for you and
  say to you How you have perished, O one
  inhabited by seafaring men. O renowned city, Who
  was strong at sea,
• She and her inhabitants, Who caused their terror
  to be on all her inhabitants!
• 18 The coastlands tremble on the day of your
  fall. Yes, the coastlands by the sea are troubled
  at your departure.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
  crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose
  traders are the honorable of the earth?
• 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to
  dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into
  contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• WHO HAS TAKEN COUNSEL AGAINST TYRE? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 272-3
• 2 Son of man, Take up a lamentation for Tyre,
• 3 Say to Tyre, You who are situated at the
  entrance of the sea, merchant of the peoples on
  many coastlands. Thus says the Lord GOD O
  Tyre, You have said, I am perfect in
  beauty. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 236-9

• 8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, the
  crowning city, Whose merchants are princes, Whose
  traders are the honorable of the earth?
• 9 The LORD of hosts has purposed it, To bring to
  dishonor the pride of all glory, To bring into
  contempt all the honorable of the earth.
• WHO HAS TAKEN COUNSEL AGAINST TYRE? WHY?
• READ EZEKIEL 285
• 5 By your great wisdom in trade you have
  increased your riches. And Your heart is lifted
  up because of your riches.
• READ JOB 4011
• 11 Disperse the rage of your wrath. Look on
  everyone who is proud and humble him. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 2310-12

• 10 Overflow through your land like the River, O
  daughter of Tarshish There is no more strength.
• 11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He
  shook the kingdoms The LORD has given a
  commandment against Canaan To destroy its
  strongholds.
• 12 And He said, "You will rejoice no more, O you
  oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross
  over to Cyprus There also you will have no
  rest."

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• 10 Overflow through your land like the River, O
  daughter of Tarshish There is no more strength.
• 11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He
  shook the kingdoms The LORD has given a
  commandment against Canaan To destroy its
  strongholds.
• 12 And He said, "You will rejoice no more, O you
  oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, cross
  over to Cyprus There also you will have no
  rest."
• WHO IS THE DAUGHTER OF TARSHISH? TYRE?
• WHO STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND? THE LORD?
• HAS THE LORD DONE THIS BEFORE? WHEN?
• WHY DOES THE LORD SHAKE THE KINGDOMS?
• WHERE WILL THE DAUGHTER OF SIDON GO?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• 11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He
  shook the kingdoms The LORD has given a
  commandment against Canaan To destroy its
  strongholds.
• WHO STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA?
• THE LORD?
• HAS THE LORD DONE THIS BEFORE? WHEN?
• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL NOAH?
• READ GENESIS 617
• 17 Behold, I am bringing floodwaters on the
  earth, to destroy from under heaven all flesh in
  which is the breath of life. Everything that is
  on the earth shall die.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• 11 He stretched out His hand over the sea, He
  shook the kingdoms The LORD has given a
  commandment against Canaan To destroy its
  strongholds.
• WHO STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA? HAS THE
  LORD DONE THIS BEFORE? WHEN?
• READ GENESIS 710-12
• 10 It came to pass after seven days that the
  waters of the flood were on the earth.
• 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in
  the second month, the seventeenth day of the
  month, on that day all the fountains of the great
  deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven
  were opened.
• 12 The rain was on the earth forty days and forty
  nights. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHO STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA? HAS THE
  LORD DONE THIS BEFORE? WHEN?
• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO MOSES?
• READ EXODUS 320
• 20 I will stretch out My hand and strike Egypt
  with all My wonders which I will do in its midst.
  After that he will let you go. NKJV
• WHY DID THE LORD DO THIS?
• READ EXODUS 75
• 5 The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD,
  when I stretch out My hand on Egypt and bring out
  the children of Israel from among them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHO STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA? HAS THE
  LORD DONE THIS BEFORE? WHEN?
• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL MOSES TO DO?
• WHAT HAPPENED?
• READ EXODUS 1415-16
• 15 The LORD said to Moses, Why do you cry to Me?
  Tell the children of Israel to go forward.
• 16 Lift up your rod and Stretch out your hand
  over the sea and divide it. The children of
  Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst
  of the sea. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHO STRETCHED OUT HIS HAND OVER THE SEA? HAS THE
  LORD DONE THIS BEFORE? WHEN?
• WHO CAUSED THE SEA TO SEPARATE?
• READ EXODUS 1421-23
• 21 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. And
  The LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong
  east wind all that night and made the sea into
  dry land and the waters were divided.
• 22 The children of Israel went into the midst of
  the sea on the dry ground. And The waters were a
  wall to them on their right hand and on their
  left.
• 23 The Egyptians pursued and went after them into
  the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his
  chariots, and his horsemen. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHO OVERTHREW THE EGYPTIANS?
• READ EXODUS 1426-29
• 26 The LORD said to Moses, Stretch out your hand
  over the sea, that the waters may come back upon
  the Egyptians, on their chariots, and on their
  horsemen.
• 27 Moses stretched out his hand over the sea.
  When the morning appeared, the sea returned to
  its full depth, while the Egyptians were fleeing
  into it. The LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the
  midst of the sea.
• 28 The waters returned and covered the chariots,
  the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh that
  came into the sea after them. Not so much as one
  of them remained.
• 29 But the children of Israel had walked on dry
  land in the midst of the sea. The waters were a
  wall to them on their right hand and on their
  left. NKJV
• WHAT DID MOSES SAY THE LORD HAD DONE?
• READ EXODUS 1511-12
• 11 Who is like You, O LORD, among the gods? Who
  is like You, glorious in holiness, Fearful in
  praises, doing wonders?
• 12 You stretched out Your right hand and The
  earth swallowed them. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY TO THE WATERS?
• READ GENESIS 19-10
• 9 God said, Let the waters under the heavens be
  gathered together into one place, and let the dry
  land appear. And it was so.
• 10 God called the dry land Earth and the
  gathering together of the waters He called Seas.
  And God saw that it was good. NKJV
• WHAT DID THE PSALMIST SAY ABOUT THIS?
• READ PSALMS 242
• 1 The earth is the LORDS and all its fullness
  The world and those who dwell therein.
• 2 He has founded it upon the seas And established
  it upon the waters. NKJV
• WHAT DID JOHN SEE? WHAT HAPPENED TO THE SEA?
• READ REVELATION 211
• 1 I saw a new heaven and a new earth For the
  first heaven and the first earth had passed away.
  There was no more sea. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHAT DID JOB SAY THE LORD HAD DONE?
• READ JOB 2612
• 12 He stirs up the sea with His power And by His
  understanding He breaks up the storm. NKJV
• WHO SET THE BOUNDARIES OF THE SEAS?
• READ JOB 388-11
• 8 Who shut in the sea with doors When it burst
  forth and issued from the womb.
• 9 When I made the clouds its garment And thick
  darkness its swaddling band
• 10 When I fixed My limit for it And set bars and
  doors
• 11 When I said, This far you may come But no
  farther. And Here your proud waves must stop!
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHY DOES THE LORD STRETCH OUT HIS HAND?
• READ PROVERBS 124-25
• 24 I have called and you refused. I have
  stretched out my hand and no one regarded,
• 25 Because you disdained all my counsel And Would
  have none of my rebuke. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 525
• 25 The anger of the LORD is aroused against His
  people. He has stretched out His hand against
  them
• And stricken them, And the hills trembled. Their
  carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the
  streets. All this His anger is not turned away
  But His hand is stretched out still. NKJV
• READ ISAIAH 1426-27
• 26 This is the purpose that is purposed against
  the whole earth. This is the hand that is
  stretched out over all the nations.
• 27 The LORD of hosts has purposed And Who will
  annul it? His hand is stretched out And Who will
  turn it back? NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHY DOES THE LORD STRETCH OUT HIS HAND?
• READ JEREMIAH 156
• 6 You have forsaken Me, says the LORD, You have
  gone backward. Therefore I will stretch out My
  hand against you and destroy you. I am weary of
  relenting!
• READ EZEKIEL 1413
• 13 Son of man, When a land sins against Me by
  persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out My
  hand against it. I will cut off its supply of
  bread, send famine on it, and cut off man and
  beast from it. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO TYRE
• WHEN THE LORD STRETCHES OUT HIS HAND?
• READ EZEKIEL 2615-16
• 15 Thus says the Lord GOD to Tyre Will not the
  coastlands shake at the sound of your fall When
  the wounded cry and slaughter is made in the
  midst of you?
• 16 All the princes of the sea will come down from
  their thrones, lay aside their robes and take off
  their embroidered garments. They will clothe
  themselves with trembling. They will sit on the
  ground and tremble every moment and be astonished
  at you. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHAT HAPPENED TO TYRE?
• READ EZEKIEL 2728-32
• 28 The common-land will shake at the sound of the
  cry of your pilots.
• 29 All who handle the oar, The mariners, All the
  pilots of the sea Will come down from their ships
  and stand on the shore.
• 30 They will make their voice heard because of
  you. They will cry bitterly and cast dust on
  their heads. They will roll about in ashes.
• 31 They will shave themselves completely bald
  because of you, Gird themselves with sackcloth,
  And weep for you With bitterness of heart and
  bitter wailing.
• 32 In their wailing for you They will take up a
  lamentation And lament for you What city is
  like Tyre, Destroyed in the midst of the sea?
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE LORD BECOMES ANGRY?
• READ AMOS 87-8
• 7 The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob
  Surely I will never forget any of their works.
• 8 Shall not the land tremble for this And
  everyone mourn who dwells in it? All of it shall
  swell like the River,
• Heave and subside Like the River of Egypt. NKJV
• WHY DOES THE LORD SHAKE THE KINGDOMS?
• READ HEBREWS 1225-27
• 25 See that you do not refuse Him who speaks. For
  if they did not escape who refused Him who spoke
  on earth, much more shall we not escape if we
  turn away from Him who speaks from heaven,
• 26 Whose voice then shook the earth But Now He
  has promised, Saying, Yet once more I shake not
  only the earth, But also heaven.
• 27 Now this, Yet once more, indicates the removal
  of those things that are being shaken, as of
  things that are made, That the things which
  cannot be shaken may remain. NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2310-12

• WHAT DID DANIEL SEE?
• READ DANIEL 72-3
• 2 Daniel spoke, Saying, I saw in my vision by
  night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were
  stirring up the Great Sea.
• 3 Four great beasts came up from the sea, each
  different from the other. NKJV
• WHAT DID JOHN SEE?
• IS THIS THE LORDS DOING?
• READ REVELATION 131
• 1 I stood on the sand of the sea and I saw a
  beast rising up out of the sea, Having seven
  heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns
  and on his heads a blasphemous name. NKJV

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READ ISAIAH 2313-14

• 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people
  which was not Assyria founded it for wild beasts
  of the desert. They set up its towers, They
  raised up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.
• 14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For your strength
  is laid waste.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• 13 Behold, the land of the Chaldeans, This people
  which was not Assyria founded it for wild beasts
  of the desert. They set up its towers, They
  raised up its palaces, And brought it to ruin.
• 14 Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For your strength
  is laid waste.
• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA?
• WHO FOUNDED THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS?
• WHAT WAS THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA?
• WHICH WAY DID THE RIVER HIDDEKEL FLOW?
• EAST TOWARD ASSYRIA?
• READ GENESIS 210-14
• 10 A river went out of Eden to water the garden,
  and from there it parted and became four
  riverheads.
• 11 The name of the first is Pishon. It is the one
  which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where
  there is gold.
• 12 The gold of that land is good. Bdellium and
  the onyx stone are there.
• 13 The name of the second river is Gihon, It is
  the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
• 14 The name of the third river is Hiddekel. It is
  the one which goes toward the east of Assyria.
  The fourth river is the Euphrates.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA?
• WHERE DID NIMROD BUILD NINEVEH? ASSYRIA?
• READ GENESIS 108-12
• 8 Cush begot Nimrod. He began to be a mighty one
  on the earth.
• 9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD.
  Therefore it is said, Like Nimrod the mighty
  hunter before the LORD.
• 10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech,
  Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
• 11 From that land he went to Assyria and built
  Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah,
• 12 And Resen between Nineveh and Calah (That is
  the principal city).

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHERE WAS THE LAND OF SHINAR?
• WHAT TOWER DID THEY BUILD? BABEL?
• BABEL LATER CALLED BABYLON
• READ GENESIS 111-4
• 1 The whole earth had one language and one
  speech.
• 2 As they journeyed from the east they found a
  plain in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there.
• 3 They said to one another, Come, Let us make
  bricks and bake them thoroughly. They had brick
  for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.
• 4 They said, Come, Let us build ourselves a
  city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens.
  Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be
  scattered abroad over the face of the whole
  earth.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA?
• WHERE DID THE PEOPLE OF ISHMAEL DWELL?
• EAST OF EGYPT TOWARD ASSYRIA?
• READ GENESIS 2517-18
• 17 These were the years of the life of Ishmael
  one hundred and thirty-seven years. He breathed
  his last and died and was gathered to his people.
• 18 They dwelt from Havilah as far as Shur, which
  is east of Egypt as you go toward Assyria. He
  died in the presence of all his brethren.
• WHO WERE THE CHALDEANS?
• WHAT DID THE THIRD MESSENGER SAY TO JOB?
• READ JOB 117
• 17 While he was still speaking, another also came
  and said, The Chaldeans formed three bands,
  raided the camels and took them away. Yes, and
  they killed the servants with the edge of the
  sword. I alone have escaped to tell you!

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 787BC?
• WHO WAS PUL? FIRST KING OF ASSYRIA?
• WHAT DID MENAHEM GIVE TO THE KING OF ASSYRIA?
• READ 2 KINGS 1517-19
• 17 In the thirty-ninth year of Azariah king of
  Judah, Menahem the son of Gadi became king over
  Israel and reigned ten years in Samaria.
• 18 He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did
  not depart all his days from the sins of Jeroboam
  the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.
• 19 Pul king of Assyria came against the land. And
  Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver,
  that his hand might be with him to strengthen the
  kingdom under his control.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 757BC?
• WHO WAS KING OF ISRAEL? PEKAH?
• WHO WAS KING OF JUDAH? AZARIAH?
• WHO WAS KING OF ASSYRIA? TIGLATH-PILESER?
• WHAT DID TIGLATH-PILESER DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 1527-30
• 27 In the fifty-second year of Azariah king of
  Judah, Pekah the son of Remaliah became king over
  Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.
• 28 He did evil in the sight of the LORD. He did
  not depart from the sins of Jeroboam the son of
  Nebat, who had made Israel sin.
• 29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel,
  Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took
  Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor,
  Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali.
  And he carried them captive to Assyria. (1
  CHRONICLES 525-26)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 727-722BC?
• WHO WAS KING OF ISRAEL? HOSHEA?
• WHO WAS KING OF JUDAH? AHAZ?
• WHO WAS KING OF ASSYRIA? SHALMANESER?
• WHAT DID SHALMANESER DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 171-4
• 1 In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah,
  Hoshea the son of Elah became king of Israel in
  Samaria, and he reigned nine years.
• 2 He did evil in the sight of the LORD, but not
  as the kings of Israel who were before him.
• 3 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against
  him. Hoshea became his vassal and paid him
  tribute money.
• 4 The king of Assyria uncovered a conspiracy by
  Hoshea. He had sent messengers to So, king of
  Egypt, and brought no tribute to the king of
  Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore
  the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in
  prison.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 727-722BC?
• WHO WAS KING OF ISRAEL? HOSHEA?
• WHO WAS KING OF ASSYRIA? SHALMANESER?
• WHAT DID SHALMANESER DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 176 - 24
• 6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of
  Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to
  Assyria. He placed them in Halah and by the
  Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of
  the Medes.
• 24 The king of Assyria brought people from
  Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath and Sepharvaim And
  He placed them in the cities of Samaria instead
  of the children of Israel. They took possession
  of Samaria and dwelt in its cities.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 721BC?
• WHO IS KING OF JUDAH? HEZEKIAH?
• WHO WAS KING OF ISRAEL? HOSHEA?
• WHO WAS KING OF ASSYRIA? SHALMANESER?
• WHAT DID SHALMANESER DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 1810-16
• 10 At the end of three years they took it. In the
  sixth year of Hezekiah, that is, the ninth year
  of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
• 11 The king of Assyria carried Israel away
  captive to Assyria. He put them in Halah and by
  the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities
  of the Medes,
• 12 Because They did not obey the voice of the
  LORD their God, But transgressed His covenant and
  all that Moses the servant of the LORD had
  commanded. They would neither hear nor do them.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 704-682BC?
• WHO IS KING OF JUDAH? HEZEKIAH?
• WHO WAS KING OF ASSYRIA? SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT DID SENNACHERIB DO?
• WHAT DID HEZEKIAH DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 1813-16
• 13 In the fourteenth 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. He gave it
  to the king of Assyria.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ASSYRIA? 704-682BC?
• WHO WAS KING OF ASSYRIA? SENNACHERIB?
• WHAT HAPPENED TO SENNACHERIB?
• READ 2 KINGS 1935-36
• 35 It came to pass on a certain night that the
  angel of the LORD went out, and killed in the
  camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five
  thousand. When people arose early in the morning,
  there were the corpses all dead.
• 36 Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went
  away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.
• WHAT HAPPENED TO HEZEKIAH?
• READ 2 CHRONICLES 3222-23
• 22 The LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of
  Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king
  of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and
  guided them on every side.
• 23 Many brought gifts to the LORD at Jerusalem,
  and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that
  he was exalted in the sight of all nations
  thereafter.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT WAS THE NATIVE LAND OF ABRAM? 2000BC?
• READ GENESIS 1127-31
• 27 This is the genealogy of Terah Terah begot
  Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot.
• 28 Haran died before his father Terah in his
  native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.
• 29 Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of
  Abram's wife was Sarai. The name of Nahor's wife
  was Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of
  Milcah and the father of Iscah.
• 30 But Sarai was barren. She had no child.
• 31 Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot,
  the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai,
  his son Abram's wife, and They went out with them
  from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of
  Canaan. And they came to Haran and dwelt there.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT WAS THE NATIVE LAND OF ABRAM? 2000BC?
• WHO CALLED HIM OUT OF UR OF THE CHALDEANS?
• READ GENESIS 157
• 7 The LORD said to Abram, I am the LORD, who
  brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give
  you this land to inherit it.
• READ ACTS 72-4
• 2 Stephen said, Brethren and fathers, Listen
  The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham
  when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in
  Haran,
• 3 And said to him, Get out of your country and
  from your relatives, and come to a land that I
  will show you.
• 4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldeans
  and dwelt in Haran.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE CHALDEANS?
• READ JEREMIAH 501-3
• 1 The word that the LORD spoke against Babylon
  and against the land of the Chaldeans by Jeremiah
  the prophet.
• 2 Declare among the nations, Proclaim and set up
  a standard. Proclaim and Do not conceal it. Say,
  Babylon is taken, Bel is shamed. Merodach is
  broken in pieces. Her idols are humiliated and
  Her images are broken in pieces.
• 3 Out of the north a nation comes up against
  her,
• Which shall make her land desolate, And no one
  shall dwell therein. They shall move and they
  shall depart, Both man and beast.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHO WAS KING OF BABYLON? NEBUCHADNEZZAR?
• WHERE WAS BABYLON? IN CHALDEA?
• WHAT HAS THE LORD PREPARED FOR BABYLON?
• READ JEREMIAH 5112
• 12 Set up the standard on the walls of Babylon.
  Make the guard strong. Set up the watchmen and
  Prepare the ambushes. For the LORD has both
  devised and done What He spoke against the
  inhabitants of Babylon.
• WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 5017
• 17 Israel is like scattered sheep. The lions have
  driven him away. First the king of Assyria
  devoured him. And At last Nebuchadnezzar king of
  Babylon has broken his bones.
• READ JEREMIAH 5124
• 24 I will repay Babylon and all the inhabitants
  of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In
  Zion in your sight, Says the LORD.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?
• READ 2 KINGS 251-3
• 1 It came to pass in the ninth year of his reign,
  in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the
  month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and
  all his army came against Jerusalem and encamped
  against it and They built a siege wall against it
  all around.
• 2 The city was besieged until the eleventh year
  of King Zedekiah.
• 3 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine
  had become so severe in the city that there was
  no food for the people of the land.
• (2 CHRONICLES 3615-21 JEREMIAH 524-30)

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR DO?
• READ JEREMIAH 5210-11
• 10 The king of Babylon killed the sons of
  Zedekiah before his eyes. And He killed all the
  princes of Judah in Riblah.
• 11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, bound him in
  bronze fetters, took him to Babylon, and put him
  in prison till the day of his death.
• WHERE DID NEBUCHADNEZZAR TAKE ZEDEKIAH?
• BABYLON IN THE LAND OF THE CHALDEANS?
• READ EZEKIEL 1213
• 13 I will spread My net over him. He shall be
  caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon,
  to the land of the Chaldeans. Yet he shall not
  see it, though he shall die there.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHAT DID THE LORD SAY ABOUT ISRAEL JUDAH?
• WHO DID THE LORD GIVE THEM UP TO?
• PHILISTINES? ASSYRIANS? CHALDEANS?
• READ EZEKIEL 1627-29
• 27 Behold, I stretched out My hand against you.
  I diminished your allotment and gave you up to
  the will of those who hate you, the daughters of
  the Philistines, who were ashamed of your lewd
  behavior.
• 28 You played the harlot with the Assyrians,
  because you were insatiable. Indeed, you played
  the harlot with them and still were not
  satisfied.
• 29 You multiplied your acts of harlotry as far
  as the land of the trader, Chaldea. And Even then
  you were not satisfied.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WHO RAISED UP THE CHALDEANS? THE LORD?
  WHY?
• READ HABAKKUK 16-7
• 6 Indeed, I am raising up the Chaldeans, A
  bitter and hasty nation Which marches through the
  breadth of the earth, To possess dwelling places
  that are not theirs.
• 7 They are terrible and dreadful. Their judgment
  and their dignity proceed from themselves.
• WHAT HAPPENED TO ISRAEL JUDAH?
• WILL THE LORD BRING THEM BACK? WHY?
• READ HOSEA 88-10
• 8 Israel is swallowed up. Now They are among the
  Gentiles Like a vessel in which is no pleasure.
• 9 They have gone up to Assyria, Like a wild
  donkey alone by itself. And Ephraim has hired
  lovers.
• 10 Though they have hired among the nations, I
  will gather them. And they shall sorrow a little
  Because of the burden of the king of princes.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2313-14

• WILL THE LORD BRING THEM BACK? WHY?
• WHO WAS NIMROD? HAMS GRANDSON? (GENESIS 108-12)
• WHAT WAS THE LAND OF NIMROD? ASSYRIA?
• READ MICAH 56
• 6 They shall waste with the sword the land of
  Assyria And the land of Nimrod at its entrances.
  He shall deliver us from the Assyrian When he
  comes into our land And When he treads within our
  borders.

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READ ISAIAH 2315-16

• 15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that
  Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according
  to the days of one king. At the end of seventy
  years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of
  the harlot
• 16 "Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten
  harlot Make sweet melody, sing many songs, That
  you may be remembered."

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• 15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that
  Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according
  to the days of one king. At the end of seventy
  years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of
  the harlot
• 16 "Take a harp, go about the city, You forgotten
  harlot Make sweet melody, sing many songs, That
  you may be remembered."
• HOW LONG WILL TYRE BE FORGOTTEN? 70 YEARS?
• WHAT WAS MANS LIFE SPAN? 70 YEARS?
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN AT THE END OF 70 YEARS?
• WHAT IS THE SONG OF THE HARLOT ABOUT?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• 15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that
  Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according
  to the days of one king. At the end of seventy
  years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of
  the harlot
• HOW LONG WILL TYRE BE FORGOTTEN? 70 YEARS?
• WHAT WAS MANS LIFE SPAN? 70 YEARS?
• READ PSALMS 9010
• 10 The days of our lives are seventy years And If
  by reason of strength they are eighty years. Yet
  their boast is only labor and sorrow For it is
  soon cut off and we fly away.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• WHAT WAS DANIELS VISION?
• WHAT DID THESE FOUR BEASTS REPRESENT?
• FOUR KINGDOMS? WHAT KINGDOMS?
• READ DANIEL 715-17
• 15 I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my
  body and The visions of my head troubled me.
• 16 I came near to one of those who stood by and
  asked him the truth of all this. He told me and
  made known to me the interpretation of these
  things
• 17 Those great beasts, which are four, are four
  kings which arise out of the earth.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• WHAT WAS DANIELS VISION?
• WHAT DID THESE ANIMALS REPRESENT?
• THE RAM? MEDO-PERSIANS KINGS?
• THE MALE GOAT? GREECE?
• BROKEN HORN? FOUR KINGDOMS? WHAT FOUR
  KINGDOMS?
• READ DANIEL 819-22
• 19 He said, Look, I am making known to you what
  shall happen in the latter time of the
  indignation for at the appointed time the end
  shall be.
• 20 The ram which you saw, having the two horns
  they are the kings of Media and Persia.
• 21 The male goat is the kingdom of Greece. The
  large horn that is between its eyes is the first
  king.
• 22 As for the broken horn and the four that
  stood up in its place, four kingdoms shall arise
  out of that nation, but not with its power.

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WHAT DID THESE FOUR BEASTS REPRESENT?

• WHAT FOUR KINGDOMS?
• THE LION - BABYLONIAN EMPIRE?
• THE BEAR - MEDO-PERSIAN EMPIRE?
• THE LEOPARD - MACEDONIAN EMPIRE?
• BEAST OF IRON - ROMAN EMPIRE?
• THE TEN HORNS - ROMAN EMPIRE DIVIDED INTO TEN
  KINGDOMS?

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• WHAT DID DANIEL SAY CONCERNING JEREMIAH?
• HOW LONG WOULD THIS TAKE? 70 YEARS?
• READ DANIEL 91-2
• 1 In the first year of Darius the son of
  Ahasuerus, of the lineage of the Medes, who was
  made king over the realm of the Chaldeans
• 2 In the first year of his reign I, Daniel,
  understood by the books the number of the years
  specified by the word of the LORD through
  Jeremiah the prophet, that He would accomplish
  seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

90
QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• HOW LONG DID THEY SERVE THE CHALDEANS?
• 70 YEARS?
• READ JEREMIAH 2511-14
• 11 This whole land shall be a desolation and an
  astonishment. These nations shall serve the king
  of Babylon seventy years.
• 12 When Seventy years are completed I will
  punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the
  land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity, Says
  the LORD. 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.
• 14 Many nations and great kings shall be served
  by them also. I will repay them according to
  their deeds and according to the works of their
  own hands.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• WHAT WILL THE LORD MAKE ALL NATIONS DO?
• WHAT IS THIS CUP THEY MUST DRINK?
• READ JEREMIAH 2517-26
• 17 I took the cup from the LORDS hand and made
  all the nations drink, to whom the LORD had sent
  me.
• 18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, its kings
  and its princes, to make them a desolation, an
  astonishment, a hissing and a curse, As it is
  this day.
• 19 Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, his
  princes, and all his people
• 26 All the kings of the north, far and near, one
  with another. And all the kingdoms of the world
  which are on the face of the earth. Also the king
  of Sheshach shall drink after them.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO JUDAH JERUSALEM?
• READ JEREMIAH 276-7
• 6 I have given all these lands into the hand of
  Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, My servant
  And the beasts of the field I have also given him
  to serve him.
• 7 All nations shall serve him and his son and his
  son's son, until the time of his land comes. Then
  many nations and great kings shall make him serve
  them.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER SEVENTY YEARS?
• READ JEREMIAH 2910
• 10 After Seventy years are completed at Babylon,
  I will visit you and perform My good word toward
  you and cause you to return to this place.
• WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO EGYPT?
• READ JEREMIAH 4626
• 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.

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QUESTIONS ISAIAH 2315-16

• HOW LONG WOULD THEY SERVE THE BABYLONIANS?
• BEGIN NEBUCHADNEZZAR (605-562BC)?
• BELSHAZZAR (562-539BC)?
• DARIUS THE MEDE (538-536BC)?
• UNTIL CYRUS (536-530BC)?
• ABOUT 70 YEARS?

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READ ISAIAH 2317-18

• 17 And it shall be, at the end of seventy years,
  that the LORD will deal with Tyre. She will
  return to her hire, and commit fornication with
  all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the
  earth.
• 18 Her gain and her pay will be set apart for the
  LORD it will not be treasured nor laid up, for
  her gain will be for those who dwell before the
  LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for fine clothing.
  NKJV

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QUESTIONS ISAI