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 | | BC); Isaiah 14:28, "In the year that king Ahaz died" (727 BC); Isaiah 20:1, "In the year that Tartan came unto Ashdod, when Sargon the king of Assyria sent him" (711 BC); Isaiah 36:1, "In the 14th year of king Hezekiah" (701 BC). |
 | | There was one circumstance of the prophet's position after 701 BC which was new, and which is too often overlooked, a circumstance which he could not have employed to anything like the same degree as an argument in enforcing his message prior to the Assyrian's overthrow and the deliverance of Jerusalem. |
 | | (i) Shortly before the downfall of Samaria in 722 BC, Isaiah predicted that Tyre should be forgotten 70 years, and that after the end of 70 years her merchandise should be holiness to Yahweh (Isaiah 23:15, Isaiah 23:18). |
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