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English Revised Version

Isaiah 14:28

In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Isaiah;   Prophecy;   Thompson Chain Reference - Burden of Prophecy;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Kill, Killing;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Uzziah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Oracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Burden;   Isaiah, Book of;   Time;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Medes;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Belshazzar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ahaz;   Burden;   Isaiah;   Zechariah, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chronology;   Shalmaneser;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:
Hebrew Names Version
In the year that king Achaz died was this burden.
King James Version
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
English Standard Version
In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
New American Standard Bible
In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:
New Century Version
This message was given in the year that King Ahaz died:
Amplified Bible
In the year that King Ahaz [of Judah] died this [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) came:
World English Bible
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
Geneva Bible (1587)
In the yeere that King Ahaz died, was this burden.
Legacy Standard Bible
In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:
Berean Standard Bible
In the year that King Ahaz died, this oracle was received:
Contemporary English Version
This message came from the Lord in the year King Ahaz died:
Complete Jewish Bible
In the year that King Achaz died, this prophecy came:
Darby Translation
In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
Easy-to-Read Version
This message was given to me the year King Ahaz died:
George Lamsa Translation
The conquest of Philistia. In the year that King Ahaz died, came this burden.
Good News Translation
This is a message that was proclaimed in the year that King Ahaz died.
Lexham English Bible
In the year of the death of king Ahaz there was this oracle:
Literal Translation
This burden was in the year King Ahaz died:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The same yeare that kynge Achas dyed, God threatned by Esay on this maner:
American Standard Version
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
Bible in Basic English
In the year of the death of King Ahaz this word came to the prophet:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
King James Version (1611)
In the yeere that king Ahaz died, was this burden.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The same yere that kyng Ahaz dyed, was this burthen:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the year in which king Achaz died this word came.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The birthun of Filisteis. In the yeer wheryne kyng Achas diede, this birthun was maad.
Update Bible Version
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
Webster's Bible Translation
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
New English Translation
In the year King Ahaz died, this message was revealed:
New King James Version
This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.
New Living Translation
This message came to me the year King Ahaz died:
New Life Bible
In the year that King Ahaz died this special word came:
New Revised Standard
In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
In the year that King Ahaz died, came this oracle: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the year that king Achaz died, was this burden:
Revised Standard Version
In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
Young's Literal Translation
In the year of the death of king Ahaz was this burden:
THE MESSAGE
In the year King Ahaz died, this Message came: Hold it, Philistines! It's too soon to celebrate the defeat of your cruel oppressor. From the death throes of that snake a worse snake will come, and from that, one even worse. The poor won't have to worry. The needy will escape the terror. But you Philistines will be plunged into famine, and those who don't starve, God will kill. Wail and howl, proud city! Fall prostrate in fear, Philistia! On the northern horizon, smoke from burned cities, the wake of a brutal, disciplined destroyer.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
In the year that King Ahaz died this oracle came:

Contextual Overview

24 The LORD of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand: 25 that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot: then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulder. 26 This is the purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth: and this is the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. 27 For the LORD of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it? and his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? 28 In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden. 29 Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. 30 And the firstborn of the poor shall feed, and the needy shall lie down in safety: and I will kill thy root with famine, and thy remnant shall be slain. 31 Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou art melted away, O Philistia, all of thee; for there cometh a smoke out of the north, and none standeth aloof at his appointed times. 32 What then shall one answer the messengers of the nation? That the LORD hath founded Zion, and in her shall the afflicted of his people take refuge.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3278, bc 726, Isaiah 6:1, 2 Kings 16:20, 2 Chronicles 28:27

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 4:41 - Hezekiah Isaiah 13:1 - burden Isaiah 15:1 - burden Jeremiah 23:33 - What Ezekiel 12:10 - This Ezekiel 16:57 - reproach Nahum 1:1 - burden

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the year that King Ahaz died was this burden. The following heavy prophecy, concerning the destruction of the Philistines; whether it was delivered out before or after his death is not certain. Here some begin the "fifteenth" chapter Isaiah 15:1, and not improperly; henceforward prophecies are delivered out under another reign, as before under Uzziah, Jotham, and Ahaz, now under Hezekiah. This, according to Bishop Usher, was A. M. 3278 and before the Christian era 726.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the year that king Ahaz died - This is the caption or title to the following prophecy, which occupies the remainder of this chapter. This prophecy has no connection with the preceding; and should have been separated from it in the division into chapters. It relates solely to Philistia; and the design is to comfort the Jews with the assurance that they had nothing to apprehend from them. It is not to call the Philistines to lamentation and alarm, for there is no evidence that the prophecy was promulgated among them (Vitringa); but it is to assure the Jews that they would be in no danger from their invasion under the reign of the successor of Ahaz, and that God would more signally overthrow and subdue them than had been done in his time. It is not improbable that at the death of Ahaz, and with the prospect of a change in the government on the accession of his successor, the Philistines, the natural enemies of Judah, had meditated the invasion of the Jews. The Philistines had been subdued in the time of Azariah 2 Kings 15:1-7, or Uzziah, as he is called in 2 Chronicles 26:1, who was the son and successor of Amaziah. He broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Gabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and effectually subdued and humbled them 2 Chronicles 26:6. In the time of Ahaz, and while he was engaged in his unhappy controversies with Syria and Ephraim, the Philistines took advantage of the enfeebled state of Judah, and made successful war on it, and took several of the towns 2 Chronicles 28:18; and at his death they had hope of being able to resist Judah, perhaps the more so as they apprehended that the reign of Hezekiah would be mild, peaceable, and unwarlike. Isaiah, in the prophecy before us, warns them not to entertain any such fallacious expectations, and assures them that his reign would be quite as disastrous to them as had been the reign of his predecessors.

Was this burden - See the note at Isaiah 13:1.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 14:28. In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden — Uzziah had subdued the Philistines, 2 Chronicles 26:6-7; but, taking advantage of the weak reign of Ahaz, they invaded Judea, and took, and held in possession, some cities in the southern part of the kingdom. On the death of Ahaz, Isaiah delivers this prophecy, threatening them with the destruction that Hezekiah, his son, and great-grandson of Uzziah, should bring upon them: which he effected; for "he smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof," 2 Kings 18:8. Uzziah, therefore, must be meant by the rod that smote them, and by the serpent from whom should spring the flying fiery serpent, Isaiah 14:29, that is, Hezekiah, a much more terrible enemy than even Uzziah had been.

The Targum renders the twenty-ninth verse in a singular way. "For, from the sons of Jesse shall come forth the Messiah; and his works among you shall be as the flying serpent."


 
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