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| The king of Judah at the time when Isaiah was a prophet |
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| Priest of Bethel loyal to Jeroboam II; opposed Amos's preaching and presence in the northern kingdom |
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| One of the twelve prophets; an eighth century prophet from Tekoa in Judah, he preached to the northern kingdom and emphasized social justice and the coming Day of YHWH |
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| An account found in some historical and prophetic books that record the prophet's experience of being called into prophetic ministry; the call was usually issued in the presence of God |
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| The day that God of Israel battles his enemies; derives from the holy war tradition and was cited by Amos, Joel, Obadiah, and Zephaniah |
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| The wife of Hosea the prophet who turned out to be unfaithful to their marriage; prostitute |
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| A king of Judah; he restored the temple, re-instituted proper worship, and received God's help against the Assyrians |
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| One of the twelve prophets; and eighth century Israelite prophet who exposed the people's lack of faith in YHWH in northern kingdom; from north |
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| The name or title of an otherwise unidentifiable person in Isaiah's prophecy; means "God is with us" |
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| The first main section of the book(out of 3) of Isaiah and author of those chapters |
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| One of the twelve prophets; an eighth century Israelite prophet who was called to preach to the Assyrians in Nineveh |
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| One of the twelve prophets; and eighth century Judean prophet who advocated justice for all people |
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| The capital city of the Assyrian Empire, located on the Tigris River |
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| Monarch of the Neo-Assyrian Empire who besieged Hezekiah's Jerusalem in 701 |
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| The monarch of the Neo-Assyrian Empire who laid siege to Samaria, capital of Israel, thus preparing the way for Israel's destruction |
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| Monarch of the Neo-Assyrian Empire at the time of Isaiah and the Syro-Ephraimite war; payed by Menahem |
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| The hill on which the city of Jerusalem first stood |
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| The ideology in Israel that affirmed the divine promises to the house of David and the invulnerability of the city of Jerusalem |
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