Isaiah 13

Isaiah 13
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The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book	Book of Isaiah
Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Bible part	23
Category	Nevi'im

Isaiah 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.^[1][2] This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.^[3][4]

Text

• The original text is written in Hebrew language.
• This chapter is divided into 22 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text (10th century)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)^[5][6]
  • 1QIsa^a: complete^[5]
  • 1QIsa^b: extant: verses 2‑5, 7‑8, 16, 18‑19^[5]
  • 4QIsa^a (4Q55): extant: verses 4‑6^[5]
  • 4QIsa^b (4Q56): extant: verses 3-18^[5]
  • 4QIsa^l (4Q65): extant: verses 1‑4^[5]

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

• Septuagint (3rd century BC)
• Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Structure

This chapter can be grouped into:

• Isaiah 13:1-22 = Proclamation Against Babylon

Verse 17

"Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them,

Who will not regard silver;

And as for gold, they will not delight in it."^[7]

• "Medes" - One of the places in which the prophet specified, "by name," the instrument of the wrath of God. Cyrus, the king of Medes is subsequently mentioned Isaiah 44:28; Isaiah 45:1 as the agent by which God would accomplish his purposes. It is remarkable, also, that 'the Medes' are mentioned here many years before they became a separate and independent nation. It was elsewhere predicted that the Medes would be employed in this siege of Babylon; thus, in Isaiah 21:2:

'Go up, O Elam (that is, Persia), besiege, O Media;'

Jeremiah 51:11 :

'Jehovah hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his device is against Babylon to destroy it.'

Medes or "Media" was a country east of Assyria, which is supposed to have been populated by the descendants of Madai, son of Japheth Genesis 10:2, as also observed by Josephus.^[8] Ancient Media extended on the west and south of the Caspian Sea, from Armenia, on the north, to Faristan or Persia proper, on the south.^[9][10]

See also

Arabia Babylon Chaldea Isaiah, son of Amoz

Medes Ophir Sodom and Gomorrah

• Related Bible parts: Genesis 10, Jeremiah 51, Daniel 5

Notes and references

1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
3. J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
4. Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
5. Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah
6. Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
7. Isaiah 13:7
8. Antiqu. Jud. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 1
9. Barnes, Albert. Notes on the Old Testament. London, Blackie & Son, 1884. Reprint, Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998.
10. Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

External links

Jewish

• Isaiah 13:Original Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

• Isaiah 13 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate