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Isaiah 19 Bible study: The burden of Egypt
Isaiah 19 has words that Exodus has in Egypt's story. Egypt cries to the LORD "because of oppressors" (19:20), with the verb of Exodus 3:9, and he sends them a savior; "The LORD will strike Egypt, striking and healing" (19:22), with the verb Exodus has at the Passover. And he calls Egypt by a name Isaiah elsewhere gives his own people: "Egypt my people" (19:25).
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“because the LORD of Armies has blessed them, saying, “Blessed be Egypt my people, Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel my inheritance.””
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“In Isaiah 19, after the LORD comes to Egypt, the Egyptians seek the idols.”
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"The burden of Egypt"
The chapter opens with a heading: "The burden of Egypt" (19:1) (tap burden). It is the fifth of the burdens in this part of the book, after Babylon (Isaiah 13:1), "This burden" of Isaiah 14:28, Moab (Isaiah 15:1) and Damascus (Isaiah 17:1). Then: "Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and comes to Egypt" (19:1) (tap rides). "The idols of Egypt will tremble at his presence; and the heart of Egypt will melt within it" (19:1) (tap idols). Then the one who speaks says I: "I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians" (19:2), "city against city, and kingdom against kingdom" (19:2). "The spirit of the Egyptians will fail within them. I will destroy their counsel" (19:3). Look at the next words: "They will seek the idols" (19:3). In Hebrew idols in 19:1 and 19:3 is one word, elil. The idols that tremble at the LORD's presence are the idols Egypt turns to. The first part ends, and names who speaks: "I will give over the Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord. A fierce king will rule over them" (19:4), "says the Lord, GOD of Armies" (19:4).
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- The river dried, the wise made fools
- Words Exodus has, said of Egypt
- "Blessed be Egypt my people"
- Egypt and Assyria, side by side in Isaiah
- Zoan
- Egypt later in Isaiah
- 11 questions as you read
- 13 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
יָדַעyada'say ya-DA
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "know", including "know by experience"; in the form of "The LORD will be known to Egypt", "make oneself known". Strong's: "to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing)". The wise men of Egypt are told, "let them know what the LORD of Armies has purposed concerning Egypt" (19:12). Then, "The LORD will be known to Egypt, and the Egyptians will know the LORD in that day" (19:21): the verb twice in one line. Pharaoh had said, "Who is the LORD, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know the LORD" (Exodus 5:2), and the LORD had said, "The Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD" (Exodus 7:5).
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Isaiah 19 Bible study questions
- 1Egypt's wisest counselors couldn't tell what the LORD had purposed (19:11-12). When you don't know what to do, where do you go for counsel, and how do you weigh what you hear?
- 2"They will return to the LORD, and he will be entreated by them, and will heal them" (19:22). What has turned you back toward God in your own life?
- 3In 19:25 the LORD calls Egypt, the land of Israel's old bondage, "my people". How might this verse change the way you pray for someone you find hard to love?
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