Isaiah 17 - Study Guide -Burden of Damascus

[Anne Terri]

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ISAIAH 17 STUDY GUIDE

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Isaiah 17:1-3 The burden of Damascus ... it shall be a ruinous heap ... the cities of Aroer ... forsaken ... The fortress shall cease from Ephraim...the kingdom from Damascus ...the remanant of Syria ... shall be as the glory of the children of Israel ... saith the LORD...

Isaiah 17:4-6 ... it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin ... it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim ... gleaning grapes shall be left ... as the shaking of an olive tree ... saith the LORD God of Israel

Isaiah 17:7-8 ...that day -a man look to his Maker -his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel...
he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands...

Isaiah 17:9-11 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough -an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel-Because thou hast forgotten the God ...

Isaiah 17:12-14 Woe to the multitude - which make a noise like the noise of the seas - The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters -
God shall rebuke them...

Isaiah 17:1-3 The burden of Damascus ... it shall be a ruinous heap ... the cities of Aroer ... forsaken ... The fortress shall cease from Ephraim...the kingdom from Damascus ...the remanant of Syria ... shall be as the glory of the children of Israel ... saith the LORD...

1: The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
2: The cities of Aroer are forsaken: they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
3: The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus,
and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, saith the LORD of hosts.

Isaiah 17:4-6 ... it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin ... it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim ... gleaning grapes shall be left ... as the shaking of an olive tree ... saith the LORD God of Israel

4: And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
5: And it shall be as when the harvestman gathereth the corn, and reapeth the ears with his arm; and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim.
6: Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.


Isaiah 17:7-8 ...that day -a man look to his Maker -his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel...he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands...

7: At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
8: And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

Isaiah 17:9-11 In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough -an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel-Because thou hast forgotten the God ...

9: In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
10: Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:
11: In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.


Isaiah 17:12-14 Woe to the multitude - which make a noise like the noise of the seas - The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters - God shall rebuke them...

12: Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13: The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14: And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

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NAMES OF ISAIAH 17

The LORD of Hosts
The LORD God of Israel

GOD'S FAMILY TREES OF THE HOLY BIBLE - THE OLD TESTAMENT -

JACOB / ISRAEL AND SONS

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PLACES OF ISAIAH 17

DAMASCUS REFERENCES

Genesis 14:15
[15] And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.
Genesis 15:2
[2] And Abram said, Lord GOD, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

2 Kings 16:9
9: And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

Isaiah 7:8
8: For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within threescore and five years shall Ephraim be broken, that it be not a people.
Isaiah 8:4
4: For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.
Isaiah 10:9
Has not Kalno fared like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad, and Samaria like Damascus?
Isaiah 13:1
1: The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

Jeremiah 49:23
23: Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Amos 1:3
3: Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

Micah 1:6
6: Therefore I will make Samaria as an heap of the field, and as plantings of a vineyard: and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will discover the foundations thereof.

Zechariah 9:1
1: The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.

EXTERNAL LINKS - WIKIPEDIA

SYRIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria

EPHRAIM: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim

JEWISH VIRTUAL LIBRARY

THE VALLEY OF REPHAIM: www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0017_0_16648.html