Leviticus 13:45, Leviticus 14:2-3,32, Leviticus 14, most of the chapter discusses the law of strictness, sacrifice, isolation, cleansing, hinting the severity. Leviticus 22:4, Numbers 5:1,2, Matthew 8:2-4, Mark 1:40-44, Luke 17:11-19,
2 Kings 5:1-14, note 2 Kings 5:15-27, Luke 4:14-27,
2 Kings 7:3-11, (the whole story started previous chapter/s & continues after verses I noted)
Thank you Peter - well written. I've often wondered why people sometimes corrupt the intent of Scripture in the way they do. The passage is plain: Isaiah received the vision of the Lord & Heaven in that year of Uzziah's death. And since Isaiah lived through the reigns of the earlier kings of Judah (Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz & Hezekiah), it seems that this could have been one of his earlier visions recorded. And of course, Uzziah died, probably from leprosy ( 2 Chronicles 26:18-21), so that would have been a momentous occasion both in Judah's history & as a notable date used by Isaiah for giving his revelation.
To reconstruct this passage to infer that it speaks of 'one's own Uzziah dying first before we can have a vision of Heaven', is to do great disservice to the Scripture & opens the way for innocent unlearned believers to continue to look at the Word is such a distorted manner. Maybe Bible teachers are becoming weary of teaching passages of Scripture over & over again - so dishing out something like this becomes a revelation to the hearers & lifts the teacher up another notch for his wisdom. Tragic.
Isaiah 14:28-32 is a separate prophecy, which includes the verse you enquired of. To understand it, a little background first.
This prophecy was given to comfort Judah. It wasn't a message to Palestina (i.e. Philistia) but to assure Judah that they would be in no danger from Philistine invasion under the reign of the successor of Ahaz (i.e. Hezekiah) & that God would more greatly overthrow them than had previously occurred to them.
It's possible that at the death of Ahaz & with the prospect of a change in the government on the accession of Hezekiah, the Philistines, the natural enemies of Judah, had contemplated launching a fresh invasion on Judah. The Philistines had been subdued in the time of Azariah ( 2 Kings 15:1-7); Azariah broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Gabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and effectually subdued and humbled them ( 2 Chronicles 26:6). Then in the time of Ahaz & while Ahaz was engaged in matters with Syria and Ephraim, the Philistines took advantage of the sad state of Judah, and made a successful war on her, and took several of the towns ( 2 Chronicles 28:18); & at his death they hoped to be able to resist Judah more easily since the reign of Hezekiah would be mild, peaceable, and unwarlike. Therefore Isaiah, in this prophecy, gives a warning about Philistia, that they not entertain such incorrect expectations that Judah would be overcome by them, rather gives assurance that Hezekiah's reign would be as disastrous to them as had been the reign of his predecessors.
So verses 29 to 31 depict the horrors that would come upon Philistia; verse 29: the words, 'serpent, serpent's root, cockatrice', are depictions of the previous kings of Judah (Kings Uzziah, Ahaz, & Hezekiah) which, through Hezekiah, would ultimately bring down Philistia ( 2 Kings 18:8).
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The key verse is there in 2 Chronicles 26:16: "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense."
Uzziah was a great king, served the Lord well, mighty in battle & helped his people. But all his abilities & fame got to his head, & he greatly transgressed by usurping the duties of the priests by burning incense in the Temple. For this grave error, he became leprous & remained so till the day of his death.
A New Testament correlation for us could be found in 1 Corinthians 10:12: "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." We can learn from Uzziah's downfall if we too start to become overly confident in our abilities & accomplishments, believing that we're in a strong position that prevents us from any error. It is when we lose sight of God & of our utter reliance upon Him for both our physical & spiritual lives, that we fall into the temptation that we are as 'gods' having the power & authority to do anything. God may just have to put our "thigh out of joint" ( Genesis 32:25) as He did to Jacob, to remind us from whence our strengths & blessings come from & not to usurp God's Authority over our lives.
Husbandry, as seen in 2 Chronicles 26:10 & 1 Corinthians 3:9, relate to farming, tending to crops or management of those affairs.
In the 2 Chronicles passage, the people made Uzziah, a young man, a king in the place of his dead father, Amaziah. Uzziah is said to have been a cattleman & had vineyards. Thus stating that "he loved husbandry" = related to farming.
In the 1 Corinthians passage, the apostle Paul had just been talking about people like himself or Apollos just being ordinary men & not to be revered & get a following. Rather they both, as for all believers, were appointed by God to perform ministry on Earth: he had a church planting ministry & Apollos helped build it up, but God brought the 'increase'. Again, these verses speak of the imagery of evangelism to the way farmers do their work in the field: the farmers were Paul & Apollos & we (those, the Church, built upon Christ the foundation Stone), are Gods 'husbandry' = the plants/crops that showed the work of those others & God bringing it all together.
King Uzziah overstepped his bounds by trying to offer incense. This was a privilege that only the priests were to have, but God humbled him by striking him with leprosy.
The term lay with their fathers is a poetic way of saying being buried in the same place as the forefathers. Verse 23 in this chapter can confirm this.
Deborah K. Genesis 19:30,31,32,33; His daughters "lie with our father that we might preserve his seed." They gave him wine, had sex with him, hoping to become pregnant.
"Lay with" typically means have sex with; if that is the context of the verse.
I find it interesting to compare the Bible with our history books. According to the history books give us the idea these seige machines which the cunning men made for King Uzziah, weren 't made until the medieval times. According to encyclopedias and history books the Greek were the first to use them, then they became part of the medieval European wars. God is still well ahead in helping man when we rely upon Him.
The scripture has made me understand that nations and leaders are appointed by God and their fall is due to disobedience as in the case of uzziah failing to listen to zacharia the prophet.let the name ofGod be praised in the highest.Amen and amen
As a revelation of prosperity, money, there is no age for whom God chooses to show out with regardless of pedigree, etc..This scripture is saying "there is no broke king " and Uzziah was seeking understanding and that s what we got to do.
It is important to have a prophets and to walk in the direction which is given to him from God, because the scriptures says that God delivers His people by a prophet and by a prophet they were preserved.
So many times we see leaders--in politics and even in the church. They get in over their heads in a sinful behavior. They think they can handle the situation and don't have to heed anyone's counsel. They are headed for disaster. Let us beware that we believers don't fall the same way.
2 Kings 5:1-14, note 2 Kings 5:15-27, Luke 4:14-27,
2 Kings 7:3-11, (the whole story started previous chapter/s & continues after verses I noted)
2 Kings 15:5, 2 Chronicles 26:21,23,
Matthew 10:1-8, Matthew 11:1-5,
Mark 3:1-5, Luke 14:1-4,
Hopefully these scriptures help in your study
To reconstruct this passage to infer that it speaks of 'one's own Uzziah dying first before we can have a vision of Heaven', is to do great disservice to the Scripture & opens the way for innocent unlearned believers to continue to look at the Word is such a distorted manner. Maybe Bible teachers are becoming weary of teaching passages of Scripture over & over again - so dishing out something like this becomes a revelation to the hearers & lifts the teacher up another notch for his wisdom. Tragic.
This prophecy was given to comfort Judah. It wasn't a message to Palestina (i.e. Philistia) but to assure Judah that they would be in no danger from Philistine invasion under the reign of the successor of Ahaz (i.e. Hezekiah) & that God would more greatly overthrow them than had previously occurred to them.
It's possible that at the death of Ahaz & with the prospect of a change in the government on the accession of Hezekiah, the Philistines, the natural enemies of Judah, had contemplated launching a fresh invasion on Judah. The Philistines had been subdued in the time of Azariah ( 2 Kings 15:1-7); Azariah broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Gabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and effectually subdued and humbled them ( 2 Chronicles 26:6). Then in the time of Ahaz & while Ahaz was engaged in matters with Syria and Ephraim, the Philistines took advantage of the sad state of Judah, and made a successful war on her, and took several of the towns ( 2 Chronicles 28:18); & at his death they hoped to be able to resist Judah more easily since the reign of Hezekiah would be mild, peaceable, and unwarlike. Therefore Isaiah, in this prophecy, gives a warning about Philistia, that they not entertain such incorrect expectations that Judah would be overcome by them, rather gives assurance that Hezekiah's reign would be as disastrous to them as had been the reign of his predecessors.
So verses 29 to 31 depict the horrors that would come upon Philistia; verse 29: the words, 'serpent, serpent's root, cockatrice', are depictions of the previous kings of Judah (Kings Uzziah, Ahaz, & Hezekiah) which, through Hezekiah, would ultimately bring down Philistia ( 2 Kings 18:8).
Uzziah was a great king, served the Lord well, mighty in battle & helped his people. But all his abilities & fame got to his head, & he greatly transgressed by usurping the duties of the priests by burning incense in the Temple. For this grave error, he became leprous & remained so till the day of his death.
A New Testament correlation for us could be found in 1 Corinthians 10:12: "Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." We can learn from Uzziah's downfall if we too start to become overly confident in our abilities & accomplishments, believing that we're in a strong position that prevents us from any error. It is when we lose sight of God & of our utter reliance upon Him for both our physical & spiritual lives, that we fall into the temptation that we are as 'gods' having the power & authority to do anything. God may just have to put our "thigh out of joint" ( Genesis 32:25) as He did to Jacob, to remind us from whence our strengths & blessings come from & not to usurp God's Authority over our lives.
In the 2 Chronicles passage, the people made Uzziah, a young man, a king in the place of his dead father, Amaziah. Uzziah is said to have been a cattleman & had vineyards. Thus stating that "he loved husbandry" = related to farming.
In the 1 Corinthians passage, the apostle Paul had just been talking about people like himself or Apollos just being ordinary men & not to be revered & get a following. Rather they both, as for all believers, were appointed by God to perform ministry on Earth: he had a church planting ministry & Apollos helped build it up, but God brought the 'increase'. Again, these verses speak of the imagery of evangelism to the way farmers do their work in the field: the farmers were Paul & Apollos & we (those, the Church, built upon Christ the foundation Stone), are Gods 'husbandry' = the plants/crops that showed the work of those others & God bringing it all together.
"Lay with" typically means have sex with; if that is the context of the verse.
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