June 12, 2008

• The Book of Isaiah Chapter 1 V.1 Part 5.1

  The Book of Isaiah

  Chapter 1 V.1 Part 5.1

   

   

  For those following along, we are still in the first verse of the first chapter of Isaiah, and we are digging into the background information on the kings. We are on the last of these four kings.

   

  Isa 1:1 

  The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

   

  Hezekiah or Hizkiah or Hizkijah = “Jehovah is my strength”

   

  2Ki 18:1 Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, [that] Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

  2Ki 18:2  Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. His mother’s name also [was] Abi, the daughter of Zachariah.

   

  Abi = “my father” or Abia or Abiah or Abijah = “Jehovah is (my) father”

  Zechariah = “Jehovah remembers”

   

   

  2Ki 18:3 And he did [that which was] right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that David his father did.

  2Ki 18:4 He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

   

  Brasen: 

  1) copper, bronze

  a) copper (ore), bronze (as copper alloy)

  b) fetters (of copper or bronze)

  c) copper (as value)

  2) lust, harlotry

  a) meaning dubious

   

  Nehushtan = “a thing of brass”

  1) name by which the brazen serpent made by Moses in the wilderness was worshipped in the time of king Hezekiah of Judah before he destroyed it

   

  2Ki 18:5  He trusted in the LORD God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor [any] that were before him.

  2Ki 18:6  For he clave to the LORD, [and] departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses.

  2Ki 18:7  And the LORD was with him; [and] he prospered whithersoever he went forth: and he rebelled against the king of Assyria, and served him not.

  2Ki 18:8  He smote the Philistines, [even] unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

   

  Ok, so by now, you must be wondering as I am, why this guy managed to be lumped with the other three, because the distinct difference I see between him and the other kings is that he did tear down the high places and all the alters to all the idols that the other kings had allowed to stand.  He does not appear to be double-minded like the other kings.

   

  I liked this word…clave.

   

  Clave:

  1) to cling, stick, stay close, cleave, keep close, stick to, stick with, follow closely, join to, overtake, catch

  a) (Qal)

  1) to cling, cleave to

  2) to stay with

  b) (Pual) to be joined together

  c) (Hiphil)

  1) to cause to cleave to

  2) to pursue closely

  3) to overtake

  d) (Hophal) to be made to cleave

   

  These additional words parallel this word: follow hard, stick, keep fast, together, abide, close, joined, pursued, take.

   

  This guy was holding God’s hand the whole way.

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