Introduction The book of Zechariah bears the prophetâs name, which means âJehovah will rememberâ or âJehovah remembers.â The book is difficult to date as a whole, because only three of the prophecies are dated. These exceptions are in Zechariah 1:1 (âthe eighth month of Dariusâ second year,â 520 B.C.), Zechariah 1:7 (âthe twenty-fourth day of […]
Chapter twenty-eight contains a new judgment prophecy against Ephraim, representing all of northern Israel. In the first section, Ephraim is compared to drunks and babies (Isaiah 28:1-13). Although Ephraim may have seen themselves as the âsplendid crownâ of the nation, God saw them stumbling around like drunks, slipping and falling in their own vomit. He
Chapter eight records another son that Isaiah and his wife had (one son was mentioned in Isaiah 7:3). Due to the proximity of the birth announcement to this birth, some scholars believe that Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz was the âsonâ referred to in the chapter seven prophecy, especially since Isaiah 8:8, 10 both end with âImmanuel.â They see
