Isaiah 6:5
Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- c. 740 BC
WHEN
c. 740 BC
dated by the text itself
WHO RULED
- Tiglath-pileser III king of Assyria 745-727 BC
- Uzziah king of Judah 792-740 BC
SOURCES
- date — Isaiah 6:1 dates the vision by the year that King Uzziah died, dated to around 740 BC by the chronology of the kings of Judah.
- Tiglath-pileser III — Assyrian annals from Calah; the Assyrian king lists, which are dated year by year
- Uzziah — 2 Kings 15:1-7; 2 Chronicles 26; Isaiah 6:1, which dates the vision by the year of his death
SEE ALSO
- Luke 5:8-9 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus’ knees. “Go away from me, Lord,” he said, “for I am a sinful man.” …
- James 3:6-10 The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. …
- Jeremiah 1:6 “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
- Jeremiah 9:3-8 “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD. …
- Matthew 12:34-37 You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. …
- Exodus 6:30 But in the LORD’s presence Moses replied, “Since I am unskilled in speech, why would Pharaoh listen to me?”
- Exodus 4:10 “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”
- Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by…
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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