Isaiah 2

Isaiah 2
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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 2 is the second 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]
  • 4QIsa^a (4Q55): extant: verses 7-10^[5]
  • 4QIsa^b (4Q56): extant: verses 3-16^[5]
  • 4QIsa^f (4Q60): extant: verses 1-3^[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:

• Isaiah 2:1-4 = The Future House of God Micah 4:1-5
• Isaiah 2:5-22 = The Day of the Lord

Verse 4

...they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more." ~ Isaiah 2:4 KJV
Bible verse across the street from the United Nations building.Bible verse from Isaiah writen on a wall across the street from the United Nations Building in New York City

And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.^[7]

Verse 5

O house of Jacob, come and let us walk

In the light of the Lord.^[8]

The first part of this verse in Hebrew: "בית יעקב לכו ונלכה" Beit Ya'akov Lekhu Venelkha ("House of Jacob, let us go [up]") forms an acronym "Bilu" which becomes a name of a movement in Israel.

See also

• Christian messianic prophecies
• Jewish messianism
• Messianic prophecies of Jesus
• Related Bible parts: Isaiah 51, Micah 2, Ephesians 2

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 2:4
8. Isaiah 2:5

External links

Jewish

• Isaiah 2:Original Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

• Isaiah 2 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate