Yesaya 3:8

3:8 Jerusalem certainly stumbles,

Judah falls,

for their words and their actions offend the Lord; ¹ 

they rebel against his royal authority. ² 

Yesaya 5:3

5:3 So now, residents of Jerusalem, ³ 

people ⁴  of Judah,

you decide between me and my vineyard!

Yesaya 7:6

7:6 They say, “Let’s attack Judah, terrorize it, and conquer it. ⁵  Then we’ll set up the son of Tabeel as its king.” ⁶ 

Yesaya 22:8

22:8 They ⁷  removed the defenses ⁸  of Judah.

At that time ⁹  you looked

for the weapons in the House of the Forest. ¹⁰ 

Yesaya 37:31

37:31 Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit. ¹¹ 

[3:8]  ¹ tn Heb “for their tongue and their deeds [are] to the Lord.”

[3:8]  ² tn Heb “to rebel [against] the eyes of his majesty.” The word כָּבוֹד (kavod) frequently refers to the Lord’s royal splendor that is an outward manifestation of his authority as king.

[5:3]  ³ map For location see Map5 B1; Map6 F3; Map7 E2; Map8 F2; Map10 B3; JP1 F4; JP2 F4; JP3 F4; JP4 F4.

[5:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “men,” but in a generic sense.

[7:6]  ⁵ tn Heb “and let us break it open for ourselves”; NASB “make for ourselves a breach in its walls”; NLT “fight our way into.”

[7:6]  ⁶ tn Heb “and we will make the son of Tabeel king in its midst.”

[7:6]  sn The precise identity of this would-be puppet king is unknown. He may have been a Syrian official or the ruler of one of the small neighboring states. See Y. Aharoni, Land of the Bible, 370.

[22:8]  ⁷ tn Heb “he,” i.e., the enemy invader. NASB, by its capitalization of the pronoun, takes this to refer to the Lord.

[22:8]  ⁸ tn Heb “covering.”

[22:8]  ⁹ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of v. 12.

[22:8]  ¹⁰ sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

[37:31]  ¹¹ tn Heb “The remnant of the house of Judah that is left will add roots below and produce fruit above.”