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Question:
How does Isaiah describe Israels relationship with God?
Answer:
The Israelis are daring in sin and walk after their own lusts; it is in scorn that they call God the Holy One of Israel. They confound and overthrow distinctions between good and evil. They prefer their own reasonings to Divine revelations, their own devices to the counsels and commands of God. It reads in Isaiah 8:13 NIV, The Lord Almighty is the one you are to regard as holy, he is the one you are to fear, he is the one you are to dread.

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Question:
What prescription had the prophet for the nation’s security?
Answer:
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: “In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.
Isaiah 30:15 NIV,

Question:
What was Isaiahs’s attitude toward this alliance?
Answer:
Look, I know you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. But if you say to me, “We are depending on the Lord our God “isn’t he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, “You must worship before this altar”? “‘Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you can put riders on them!
Isaiah 36:6-8 NIV

Question:
How did the people of Israel propose to avoid becoming the victims of Assyria?
Answer:
The Assyrian captivity (or the Assyrian exile) is the period in the history of ancient Israel and Judah during which several thousand Israelites from the Kingdom of Israel were forcibly relocated by the Neo-Assyrian Empire by military alliance with Egypt.

Question:
What was the international situation in the time of Isaiah?
Answer:
Assyrian preoccupation, coupled with the weakness of Egypt and Babylon, left David and Solomon free to extend their own boundaries and maintain their kingdoms independent of foreign domination. The Assyrian conquerors were drawing nearer, taking successfully Damascus, Samaria, Carchemish, Gaza and Ashdod.

Question:
What attitude did Isaiah assume toward the fall of the northern kingdom?
Answer:
Isaiah prophesied that the northern kingdom of Israel would come to an end before the King of Assyria, and that its inhabitants would become broken as a people. {For before the boy knows how to say ‘My father’ or ‘My mother,’ the wealth of Damascus and the plunder of Samaria will be carried off by the king of Assyria.” Isaiah 8:4} {Isaiah 10:10-11 NIV: As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria, shall I not deal with Jerusalem and her images as I dealt with Samaria and her idols?’”}

Question:
What assurance did Isaiah give to Ahaz that deliverance was near?
Answer:
Isaiah and his sons were used by God to encourage Ahaz and his nation to trust in the Lord, not political alliances. Isaiah’s prophetic utterances not only looked to the more immediate deliverance from God, but also to the time in which God would provide ultimate deliverance for Judah.
It reads in Isaiah 7:14-16 NIV-UK
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: the virgin will conceive and give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel. He will be eating curds and honey when he knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, for before the boy knows enough to reject the wrong and choose the right, the land of the two kings you dread will be laid waste.

Question:
What role did Isaiah assume at the time of the syro-ephraimitish invasion (When the house of David was told, Syria is in league with Ephraim, his heart and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind. Isaiah 7:2?)
Answer:
Say to him, ‘Be careful, keep calm and don’t be afraid. Do not lose heart because of these two smoldering stubs of firewood—because of the fierce anger of Rezin and Aram and of the son of Remaliah. Isaiah 7:4 NIV. Yet this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “‘It will not take place, it will not happen. Isaiah 7:7 NIV.

Question:
What judgement does Isaiah envision here?
Answer:
Instead of perfume, there will be rottenness.
Instead of well-set hair, there will be rottenness.
Instead of a rich robe, there will be a girding of sackcloth.
Instead of beauty, there will be shame.
Isaiah 3:18-24 and Isaiah 32:9-13 NIV

Question:
How does Isaiah describe the city women of his time?
Answer:
Here, even before the woman symbol appears, the city is identified as female by feminine pronouns. It is more specifically designated as a widow, another female figure. Before the verse ends, it reflects back on an earlier time when she was a princess, another female figure, but now she is a slave to sin.
It reads in Isaiah 3:16-24 NIV: The Lord says, “The women of Zion are haughty, walking along with outstretched necks, flirting with their eyes, strutting along with swaying hips, with ornaments jingling on their ankles. Therefore, the Lord will bring sores on the heads of the women of Zion; the Lord will make their scalps bald.” In that day the Lord will snatch away their finery: the bangles and headbands and crescent necklaces, the earrings and bracelets and veils, the headdresses and anklets and sashes, the perfume bottles and charms, the signet rings and nose rings, the fine robes and the capes and cloaks, the purses and mirrors, and the linen garments and tiaras and shawls. Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a sash, a rope; instead of well-dressed hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, branding.