Atlas Biblica

    person

    Isaiah

    יְשַׁעְיָ֫הוּἩσαΐας

    Isaiah was a prophet in Judah during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. His prophecies are recorded in the biblical book bearing his name.

    IllustrationIsaiah 7Isaiah delivers God's warning and announces the sign of Immanuel to Ahaz beside the upper-pool conduit, accompanied by Shear-jashub.
    verses
    54
    first named
    2 Kings 19:2
    last named
    Romans 15:12
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    role
    Prophet

    Description

    Who was Isaiah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Isaiah was one of the major prophets of the Old Testament, active during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah (Isa.1.1). He brought messages of judgment and hope, foretelling the Babylonian exile and the future restoration of God's people.

    Isaiah advised kings in several crises, including the Syro-Ephraimite threat against Ahaz (Isa.7) and Sennacherib's invasion during Hezekiah's reign (2Ki.19, Isa.37). He also confronted Hezekiah for entertaining Babylonian envoys (2Ki.20, Isa.39).

    Isaiah's prophecies contain strong themes of God's holiness, judgment against sin, and the coming of the Messianic king and Suffering Servant. Many of his prophecies were fulfilled in the life of Jesus Christ, as noted in the New Testament (e.g., Mat.4.14-16, Luk.4.17-21, Jhn.12.38-41).

    Isaiah's ministry included dramatic prophetic signs, such as walking barefoot and naked for three years (Isa.20) and giving his sons symbolic names (Isa.7.3, 8.3). Jewish tradition says he was martyred by being sawn in two during Manasseh's evil reign (cf. Heb.11.37). Isaiah is considered one of the greatest literary prophets, and his book is sometimes called "the fifth Gospel" for its rich messianic imagery.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Isaiah10 of 17 entities the graph connects to Isaiah, in one group: events 10. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Jesus1 event · 1,160 versesJudah2 events · 1,023 versesJerusalem2 events · 888 versesPrayer1 event · 144 versesHezekiah11 events · 116 versesPharisee1 event · 96 versesJohn1 event · 89 versesSign1 event · 85 versesRevelation1 event · 51 versesAhaz3 events · 37 versesIsaiah

    The 10 best-attested of 17 are drawn. All 17 are listed below.

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    Stands in the same events as

    and 4 more, ordered by how many events they share.

    Places

    Where this happens

    A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.

    No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 54, across 9 books. The name is written 55 times in them.

    1. 2 Kings13 verses

      19:219:519:619:2020:120:420:720:820:920:1120:1420:1620:19

    2. 2 Chronicles3 verses

      26:2232:2032:32

    3. Isaiah16 verses

      1:12:17:313:120:220:337:237:537:637:2138:138:438:2139:339:539:8

    4. Matthew6 verses

      3:34:148:1712:1713:1415:7

    5. Mark2 verses

      1:27:6

    6. Luke2 verses

      3:44:17

    7. John4 verses

      1:2312:3812:3912:41

    8. Acts3 verses

      8:288:3028:25

    9. Romans5 verses

      9:279:2910:1610:2015:12

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Isaiah’s sayingSayingSaying is a concept gathering 156 labelled instances in the text.via Hezekiah’s sending of Eliakim, Shebna, and Leading PriestsEliakimPalace administrator under King Hezekiahvia Hezekiah’s sending of Eliakim, Shebna, and Leading PriestsHezekiahA righteous king of Judah.via Hezekiah’s sending of Eliakim, Shebna, and Leading PriestsSendingSending is a concept gathering 488 labelled instances in the text.via Hezekiah’s sending of Eliakim, Shebna, and Leading PriestsShebnaSteward of the palace during Hezekiah's reign

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

    16 more chapters, from Isaiah 20 to Romans 15

    Sources

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