Isaiah 20
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A Prophecy concerning Egypt and Cush
1In the year that the Assyrian king Sargon # 20:1 Sargon means “sun prince.” He was the father of Sennacherib. sent his supreme commander to attack Ashdod, he came and captured it. # 20:1 Ashdod means “stronghold, fortress,” or “oppressor.” 2At that time the Lord Yahweh said to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, “Take off your clothes # 20:2 Or “sackcloth,” a coarse, durable fabric used mainly to make sacks for carrying goods on the backs of animals but sometimes worn during fasts or by prophets. and sandals.” Isaiah did as he was told and walked about naked and barefoot. # 20:2 This is the only symbolic action recorded about Isaiah. He became a walking parable. Scholars are divided over whether Isaiah was completely or partially nude. See 2 Sam. 6:20; Mic. 1:8.
3Then the Lord Yahweh said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot for three years # 20:3 Isaiah’s three-year ministry of walking about naked is a type of the ministry of Jesus, who did as he was told by his Father (see John 5:19). as a prophetic sign and a wonder as a warning of what is coming to Egypt and Cush, 4so will the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and Cush, both young and old. They will be stripped and barefoot, with buttocks bared, to publicly humiliate Egypt. 5And those who put their hope in ‘glorious Cush’ and ‘mighty Egypt,’ will be shattered and totally ashamed.”
6When that day comes, those who live in the coastal region of Philistia will say, “Oh no! If this is what happened to those we hoped would come and rescue us from the Assyrian king, what chance do we have of escape?”
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Assyria to Conquer Egypt and Ethiopia
1In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, (when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him,) and fought against Ashdod, and took it; 2at the same time spake the Lord by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go and loose the sackcloth from off thy loins, and put off thy shoe from thy foot. And he did so, walking naked and barefoot. 3And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia; 4so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt. 5And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation, and of Egypt their glory. 6And the inhabitant of this isle shall say in that day, Behold, such is our expectation, whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria: and how shall we escape?
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