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Isaiah turns his sights on Egypt next. The first half of the chapter targets the sources of Egyptian power. First, the prophet attacks Egyptian religion and worship, then the great Nile and Egyptian commerce, and finally the Egyptian administrative class. The end of the chapter foretells an interesting sounding future with various pronouncements each beginning with the phrase \u201cin that day.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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  1. Egyptians will fear God and Israel (verse 16-17),\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Many Egyptians towns will speak the language of Canaan and swear loyalty to God, (verse18),\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. An altar to God will be constructed in Egypt, (verses 19-21),<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. A highway will be built from Egypt to Assyria and both countries will eventually serve God (verse 23),<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel will join hands and become partners in praising God (verse 24).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    This twist at the end of the chapter does not really match the first part. If Egypt is set for destruction, why does it end up converting? What could this strange tripartite future mean? On its face, Isaiah seems to be describing a future that is the result of a massive miracle on behalf of the Israelites. God will save the Israelites in a way that disrupts the natural order of the Levant, and the two great powers will join forces with Israel in the middle proclaiming God as the true deity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But if Israel is part of this group, why is it missing from the highway between the two countries? Isaiah should have said a highway will be built between Assyria and Egypt connecting Israel in the middle. Instead, Israel is missing from this step and only appears next as a third member of the group.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Perhaps the end of this chapter is not so much about Egypt and Assyria, but about the people within these lands. Assyria is the nation responsible for the expulsion of the Northern Kingdom. After the destruction of the First Temple, a remnant of Jews will flee to Egypt and build a community there. The community will eventually thrive and Egypt will become a center of Jewish life outside of Israel. Perhaps then, Isaiah is speaking about a time when the Israelites exiled by Assyria will connect with the Judeans exiled to Egypt to come together with a rebuilt Israel. In this way:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Israel shall be a third partner with Egypt and Assyria as a blessing on earth; for GOD of Hosts will bless them, saying, \u2018Blessed be My people Egypt, My handiwork Assyria, and My very own Israel\u2019 (verse 25).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    Prophesying about the eventual destruction of Egypt, Isaiah stated: \u201cI will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; they shall war with each other, every man with his fellow, city with city and kingdom with kingdom\u201d (2). Ibn Ezra and Radak implied that this internecine warfare would result simply from confusion (<\/span>bilbul<\/span><\/em>); Malbim,* however, saw something more sophisticated\u2014and, yet, also more sinister:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Customarily, when kingdoms are at war, all the cities of one kingdom will make peace among themselves and form an alliance to fight, united, against their opponents. Similarly, when cities are at war with one another, the population of each city will make peace among themselves in order to present a united front against the opposing city. And when one clan is at war with another, all the close family members in each clan will band together to form a unified front.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Here, however, first brothers will fight \u201ceach other\u201d until there are divisions amongst members of the same family. Then, \u201cevery man with his fellow\u201d will pit families against one another, followed by city against city and kingdom against kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In this fashion, they will be at war both internally and externally: an internal civil war between brothers, families, and cities, and an external war between kingdoms.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In the contemporary world, where tribal, national, religious, and ethnic relationships compete and often clash, Malbim\u2019s version of the breakup of Egyptian society is surely more realistic\u2014and dangerous.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    In chapter 19, Isaiah portrays a time in the future when Egypt, Assyria and Israel will reconcile. Instead of the two great empires on the Nile and the Euphrates fighting each other for influence over the region, with the Land of Israel serving as a common battlefield, they will cooperate with each other and worship God together with Israel. Verse 23 describes this union as follows:<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In that day, there shall be a highway from Egypt to Assyria. The Assyrians shall join with the Egyptians and Egyptians with the Assyrians, and then the Egyptians together with the Assyrians shall serve [the LORD].<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The word for highway here, in Hebrew, is \u201cmesila<\/em>.\u201d What is its origin?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    It derives from the root SLL \u2013 in this case meaning \u201cto pave a road.\u201d A connected word, found frequently in Hebrew today is \u201cmaslul<\/em>\u201d, meaning \u201cpath, track, orbit.\u201d And when referring to a paved road, we say it is \u201csalul<\/em>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    However, the original meaning of the root SLL is \u201cto lift up, cast up.\u201d This meaning gives us a number of words in Hebrew. For example, \u201csulam<\/em>\u201d. In modern Hebrew it only means \u201cladder.\u201d But if we go back to the Bible, the meaning is less certain. It only appears once, in Jacob\u2019s famous dream (Genesis 28:12). Some do translate that sulam<\/em> as ladder, but others think it might be better understood as a stairway or ramp. From sulam<\/em>, we get the word haslama<\/em> \u2013 \u201cescalation\u201d, as in the escalation of a conflict. For more on\u00a0sulam<\/em>\u00a0 - see here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    So how did we get from the meaning \u201cto lift up\u201d to the meaning \u201cto pave a road\u201d? The answer can be found in the English translation of mesila<\/em> \u2013 \u201chighway.\u201d Why is a main road called a highway? One theory is that it goes back to the Romans, who built elevated roads with ditches for drainage on each side. These roads were therefore higher than the surrounding land. Presumably, the mesila<\/em> was also elevated in a similar way.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    \u00a0A related word is \u201csolela<\/em>\u201d. It originally meant \u201ca raised mound of earth,\u201d and was placed around the walls of a city for defensive purposes (for example in Isaiah 37:33). In medieval times, solela<\/em> began to refer to a catapult (which lifted large stones), and then to artillery. And then, just like the English word \u201cbattery\u201d, the meaning shifted from \u201ca unit of artillery\u201d to \u201can electrical cell\u201d (which sends out charges of electricity).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    One last biblical word with a connection to the root SLL is \u201cselah<\/em>.\u201d It frequently ends verses in the book of Psalms. 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    In that day, the Egyptians shall be like women, trembling and terrified because the LORD of Hosts will raise His hand against them.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\r\n

    What better way to depict how low the Egyptians will fall than comparing them to women? What better way to showcase the lowest point a man might reach than to compare him to a woman trembling, bracing herself for a blow?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What could be worse than being like a woman?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The roots of misogyny run deep. The Bible is rife with woman-hatred, and, as<\/span> I\u2019ve written about before in this series<\/span><\/a>, the Rabbis picked up biblical misogyny like a torch with which they lit the fires of normative Judaism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Rabbis believed that Pharaoh (of \u201clet my people go\u201d fame) had sex \u2018like a woman,\u2019 and they used Isaiah 19:16 to prove it.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In Midrash Tanchuma the Rabbis ask, \u201c[How] do we know that Pharaoh had intercourse like a woman?\u201d Although he was male, they answer, \u201che \u2018disrobed himself like a female\u2019 \u2026 Similarly, the prophet [Isaiah] said: <\/span>In that day, the Egyptians shall be like women.<\/span><\/em>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Why did Isaiah threaten that the Egyptians would \u201cbe like women, trembling and terrified\u201d? Why did the Rabbis use a metaphor of femininity to degrade Pharaoh? What\u2019s so bad about anyone -- male, female, or otherwise -- having sex or undressing like a woman?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    What is wrong with being like a woman?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    I\u2019ve been thinking about the ways in which patriarchal misogyny hurts all of us. The women who are raised to believe that all that they are is everything a man would never want to be. The men who are raised to eschew their vulnerability, to suppress their emotions, to never show weakness, all in the name of \u201cnot acting like a girl.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Such thinking has gotten us generation upon generation of women who lack self-esteem and who internalize misogyny until they are filled with self-doubt or self-loathing. Billion-dollar industries have been founded on capitalizing on this reality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Men, meanwhile, are suffering from interminable toxic masculinity. Unable or unwilling to access their emotions. Terrified someone might think they might have sex like a woman, undress like a woman, \u201cbe like women, trembling and terrified.\u201d They are taught to both believe women inferior, which causes and reinforces a deeply destructive gender hierarchy, and to hate a group of humans that comprises roughly one-half of the population of this earth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Patriarchal misogyny harms everyone. 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Egypt. Assyria. Israel. All nations?","post_main_content_content":"

    The grandeur of the Biblical vision bursts forth when you least expect it. In the middle of Isaiah\u2019s prophecies condemning the nations for their oppression of Israel, and for their dire role in Israel\u2019s gruesome exile, after passages detailing their own eventual downfall and disgrace, Isaiah shifts tone and speaks, surprisingly, of the ways that both Egypt and Assyria will eventually find their way under God\u2019s sheltering embrace.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Israel\u2019s greatest enemies in antiquity will form a bizarre alliance, one founded on their devotion to the one God of creation: \u201cOn that day there will be a road from Egypt to Assyria; Assyria will come into Egypt and Egyptians into Assyria, and Egypt will serve the Lord with Assyria (19:23).\u201d That\u2019s pretty heady stuff. After earning scriptural infamy as the archenemies of the Children of Israel, the authors of Israel\u2019s enslavement and of its exile, these two villains will see the light and yearn to join together in God\u2019s service.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    But what follows is even more astounding. Not only will these former enemies seek to serve God, but God will draw them near with the same kind of intimate language reserved before for the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah: <\/span><\/p>\r\n

    On that day Israel will be a third party with Egypt and with Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land, for the Lord, Master of Legions, will bless them, saying \u2018Blessed is My people, Egypt, and the work of My hands, Assyria, and My heritage, Israel (19:24).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    My people \u2026 My creation \u2026 My heritage. Egypt. Assyria. Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Could it be that God\u2019s love is so great that it can\u2019t be contained in a single covenant? That God\u2019s service is bigger than any single religion? Might it be that the oneness of this God is not numerical, but refers to the mystical ways that all distinctions and differences are integrated into this embracing unity without ever being smothered into uniformity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Egyptians: be Egypt, and serve God in the special ways that only you can. Assyrians: cultivate your ancient identity and offer it to a broader humanity for all to benefit. Jews: share the wisdom of your heritage as a blessing to all humankind.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God\u2019s greatness transcends all boundaries and breaks through any wall. 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    It is hard for Americans to realize what it is like to live in a small country, buffeted by the political forces swirling about, subject to the whims and wills of the great powers. Ancient Judah knew this well, though, acutely aware of the fact that if Assyria or Egypt wanted to, they could sweep through the land, demand taxes or captives, and institute regime change. Leading such a state is a constant negotiation: how much to appease? What can we get away with? How restless are my people? What compromises will they accept?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    In our chapter, Isaiah foretells a very different future. He envisions a highway (<\/span>mesilah<\/span><\/em>) from Egypt to Assyria \u2013 passing, presumably, directly through Judah. Assyria and Egypt will freely intermingle, and \u201cIsrael will be a third to Egypt and Assyria\u201d! No longer with the Jews have to deal with being bullied around by the great powers; they will take their place among the great powers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Astonishingly, Isaiah seems prepared to trade the chosenness of the Jews for the political benefit of a seat at the table. He concludes this vision with the blessing which God will say in the future: \u201cBlessed is MY NATION EGYPT, the work of My hands Assyria, and my inheritance, Israel.\u201d I cannot capitalize MY NATION EGYPT enough to emphasize just how astonishing this line is.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Isaiah is pointing to what seem to be the horns of an eternal Jewish dilemma. The price of Jewish normalization in the world is, well, normalization. If the Jews cease to be different, they can be like the other nations. But then we are no longer Jews.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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    The Talmud (Bava Batra 14b) calls the book of Isaiah \u201centirely comfort,\u201d though it might take some creative interpretation to reconcile certain prophecies of doom with that description.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When the prophecies of doom are directed not at Isaiah\u2019s own people, but at their enemies, we see the comfort more easily. Divine retribution will \u201ccome like havoc\u201d to Babylon (13:4), which will \u201cnevermore be settled\u201d (ibid. 20), while God \u201cwill pardon Jacob\u2026 again choose Israel, and will settle them on their own soil\u201d (14:1). This contrast in destinies is so comforting that the prophet seems to encourage Israel to gleefully rub it in Babylon\u2019s face: \u201crecite this song of scorn over the king of Babylon\u2026 How is oppression ended!\u201d (ibid. 4). There is comfort in the fall of one\u2019s oppressors.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    When Isaiah turns to Egypt, however, it is harder to tell which nation is being comforted. Egypt will be terrified, shattered at the mere mention of Judah (19:16-17) \u2013 but wait, what else will happen \u201con that day\u201d? \u201cSeveral towns in the land of Egypt speaking the language of Canaan and swearing loyalty to the LORD of Hosts\u201d (v.18); \u201can altar to the LORD inside the land of Egypt\u201d (v.19); and these will remind the Egyptians of God, \u201cso that when [the Egyptians] cry out to the LORD against oppressors, He will send them a savior and champion to deliver them\u201d (v.20).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Instead of inviting his people to finally celebrate Egypt\u2019s downfall, Isaiah foretells a newfound Egyptian belief in the God of Israel, rewarded by His interventions on their behalf.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Israel will still be God\u2019s <\/span>nachalah<\/span><\/i> (inheritance, special people) \u2013 but Egypt will be newly blessed as His nation, and Assyria (how did they get into Egypt\u2019s prophecy?) as \u201cthe work of My hands\u201d (v. 25, according to Radak; others read the entire verse as referring to Israel).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Is it good for the Jews?<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The LORD said to Abram, \u2018Go forth from your native land\u2026 you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you and curse him that curses you; and all the families of the earth shall bless themselves by you\u2019 (Gen. 12:1-3).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    God didn\u2019t build a nation to win, but to be a blessing for the world. Those who persist in cursing His nation \u2013 well, the prophet describes what\u2019s coming to them. But those who pay attention when God \u201cmakes Himself known,\u201d who \u201cacknowledge the LORD\u201d and even \u201cserve [Him] with sacrifice...\u201d (Is.19:21) \u2013 well, isn\u2019t that the goal? And how fitting that it is Egypt, highlighted almost from the beginning of Abram\u2019s journeys as<\/span> the antithesis of his budding nation<\/span><\/a>, the \u201cland that is not theirs (Gen.15:13) \u2013 along with Assyria, in the region where his journeys began \u2013 that finally comes around. (Yehuda Elitzur develops some of these points in<\/span> this Hebrew article<\/span><\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    Foretelling the ultimate fulfillment of Israel\u2019s national goal is a comfort indeed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","post_main_content_image":{"id":65802,"alt":"","title":"is19-comfort","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"","tile_main_caption":"Isaiah\u2019s Comforting Words - But For Whom?\u00a0","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"God didn\u2019t build a nation to win, but to be a blessing for the world","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":65802,"alt":"","title":"is19-comfort","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort.jpg","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/is19-comfort-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"353","date":"20270105","wall_id":"353"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":[{"term_id":"469","name":"Egypt","old_id":"869"},{"term_id":"504","name":"Blessing","old_id":"904"},{"term_id":"506","name":"Prophecy","old_id":"906"},{"term_id":"607","name":"Comfort","old_id":"1007"}]},{"order":9,"id":"65751","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Sun City? 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    19:18 \u201cOn that day, five cities in the land of Egypt shall speak the language of Canaan and shall swear to the Lord of Armies. The City of the Sun it shall be said of one of them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    The Masoretic Text reads \u201cthe City of Destruction,\u201d \u2018<\/em><\/span>ir heres<\/span><\/em>, <\/em>but some Hebrew manuscripts as well as several ancient translations read instead, more plausibly, \u2018<\/span>ir \u1e25eres<\/span>, \u201cthe City of the Sun,\u201d which is probably the Egyptian Heliopolis [The JPS translation uses the transliteration: the city of Heres - Ed.]. The scribal error would have been caused by the fact that <\/span>\u1e25eres<\/em> <\/span>is a rather rare synonym for \u201csun\u201d and by the context of destruction created in the previous prophecy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

    From: Robert Alter, <\/span>The Hebrew Bible, <\/span><\/i>vol. 2: Prophets, W. W. Norton & Co., 2019, ad loc. 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    \u201cGentiles (a.k.a. \"The Nations\") in Tanakh\u201d<\/a> by Jonathan Lasko: Biblical sources on non-Jews.<\/p>\r\n

    \u201cA Survey of Chosenness\u201d<\/a> by Rabbi Alex Kress: Explore texts about what it means to be chosen.<\/p>","post_main_content_image":"","post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Go deeper into the chapter....","tile_main_caption":"Source Sheets - Isaiah 19","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Links to learning resources","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":42232,"alt":"","title":"sefaria-words-sunburst","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","width":608,"height":395,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst-300x195.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":195,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","medium_large-width":608,"medium_large-height":395,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","large-width":608,"large-height":395,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","1536x1536-width":608,"1536x1536-height":395,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","2048x2048-width":608,"2048x2048-height":395,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","post_full_size-width":608,"post_full_size-height":395,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/sefaria-words-sunburst.png","home_baner-width":608,"home_baner-height":395}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"Sefaria word sunburst visualization","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","old_create_date":"","links":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"353","date":"20270105","wall_id":"353"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false},{"order":11,"id":"65749","color":"#e2f4fa","size":"1","name":"Points to Ponder - Isaiah 19 ","post_title":"Points to Ponder - Isaiah 19","slug":"points-to-ponder-isaiah-19","old_id":"65749","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":{"id":38102,"post_title":"929-English","slug":"929-english","old_id":"38102","first_name":"","last_name":"929-English","description":"","short_description":"","credit":"","image_url":"","hide_writer":false,"link_for_pay":false,"image":{"id":38333,"alt":"","title":"\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/png","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","width":1513,"height":860,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-150x150.png","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-300x171.png","medium-width":300,"medium-height":171,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-768x437.png","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":437,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1024x582.png","large-width":1024,"large-height":582,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","1536x1536-width":1513,"1536x1536-height":860,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5.png","2048x2048-width":1513,"2048x2048-height":860,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-1200x682.png","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":682,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/\u05dc\u05d5\u05d2\u05d5-739x420.png","home_baner-width":739,"home_baner-height":420}},"tags":false},"related_cahpter":"353","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content_description":"","post_main_content_content":"

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    1. Egypt in the days of Isaiah - a short intro<\/em>. In the second half of the 8th C. BCE, Egypt was a country riven by conflict. Different dynasties with various political and religious agendas fought for control. Contra the Assyrian empire, Egypt adopted Judah and Philistia as buffer zones between themselves and Assyria. But they didn\u2019t always live up to their commitments on that score. In the year 720 BCE, the Egyptians lost to the Assyrians in a battle at Rafah, and began to pay tribute to Sargon, king of Assyria. The situation changed when Egypt became stronger internally, and the Nubian dynasty ruled the kingdom. During Hezekiah\u2019s rebellion against Assyria, and Sennecharib\u2019s campaign that followed, the Egyptians encouraged the rebellion and aided it. <\/span>
      \r\n<\/span>So what of all this is reflected in the prophecy? Egypt\u2019s internal conflicts. Possible the surrender to Assyria. A blessed new Middle East? Not so much.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    2. Foolish wise men<\/em>. Verses 11-15 describe the failure of the Egyptian wise men to understand the situation, and provide counsel to the leadership. For Egyptians, the failure of wise men is a blow to their very self-image, since this was one of the central components of their reputation in the region.<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    3. The Nile<\/em>. When it\u2019s dry, it is dry! That\u2019s what happens to it in this prophecy. The Nile is the central artery of Egyptian life. The agriculture along its banks, the rich fish stocks in its waters, and all the attendant industries and occupations. It\u2019s no coincidence that Egyptians attribute to it divine powers. In the prophecy, the vision of a depleted Nile is a necessary part of the process that the Egyptians will undergo in their movement to believe in God.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    4. To be like a woman<\/em>. That\u2019s what\u2019s described in verse 16, the strong Egyptian nation when it is struck with fear \u201cIn that day, the Egyptians shall be like women, trembling and terrified.\u201d Doesn\u2019t say much for their opinion of women. (See Sivan Rotholz\u2019s powerful piece on this chapter).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\r\n\t
    5. All my sons<\/em>. That\u2019s what verse 25 means: \u201cBlessed be My people Egypt, My handiwork Assyria, and My very own Israel.\u201d Three nations of equal standing. One God - and that God is God of all nations and peoples.<\/span><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>","post_main_content_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"post_main_content_embedded_video":"","post_main_content_video_duration":"","post_main_content_show_fb_comments":"1","post_main_content_credit_media":"","tile_top_caption":"Isaiah 19","tile_main_caption":"Points to Ponder","tile_main_caption_size":"1","tile_sub_caption":"Insights and questions for personal reflection and group discussion","tile_preview_embedded":"","tile_preview_image":{"id":86314,"alt":"","title":"Points to ponder","caption":"","description":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","width":1000,"height":1000,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-300x300.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":300,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-768x768.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":768,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","large-width":1000,"large-height":1000,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","1536x1536-width":1000,"1536x1536-height":1000,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","2048x2048-width":1000,"2048x2048-height":1000,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder.jpg","post_full_size-width":1000,"post_full_size-height":1000,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Points-to-ponder-420x420.jpg","home_baner-width":420,"home_baner-height":420}},"tile_preview_video":"","tile_external_link":"","tile_tile_gallery_items":"","tile_credits":"","alternate_tile_top_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption":"","alternate_tile_main_caption_size":"1","alternate_tile_sub_caption":"","alternate_tile_hide_media":"0","tile_group_preview_image_url":"","tile_group_main_caption":"","tile_group_sub_caption":"","tile_group_popup_package_extra_content":"","tile_group_read_time":"","home_color":"","home_gallery_top":"","home_gallery_middle":"","home_gallery_book":"","home_gallery_bottom":"","seo_seo_title":"","seo_seo_description":"","seo_seo_default_title":"","seo_seo_default_description":"","links":false,"tile_link_for_pay":"0","send_noty":false,"chapter_info":{"books_group":"Prophets","book":"Isaiah","chapter":"19","chapter_main_number":"353","date":"20270105","wall_id":"353"},"link_for_pay":false,"tags":false}],"hide_acf":true,"home_image":false,"home_posts":false,"home_posts_title":"","posts_home":[],"static_cube_title":"","static_cube_brief":"","static_cube_color":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall\/65273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wall"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wall"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}