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  COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 6-10
  by Chuck Smith
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Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Isaiah, chapter 6, as Isaiah records
for us his commissioning by God for his ministry. Now you remember in
chapter 1 that Isaiah tells us that his time of prophecy extended
through the kingdom or through the kings of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and
Hezekiah. As we pointed out, it is thought that he was put to death by
the evil son of Hezekiah, Manasseh. But his call to his ministry as a
prophet is given to us in chapter 6, and it so happened that it came,

In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a
throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple (Isa 6:1).

Uzziah was a very popular king. He had reigned over Israel for fifty-two
years. He began his reign when he was just sixteen years old. Under his
reign the nation, and actually I say Israel, but it was the Southern
Kingdom of Judah over which he was reigning. And during this period,
Judah had great military advancement and great prosperity. They
developed a great water system, enlarged their agricultural area. They
enlarged their territory by moving into the territory of the
Philistines-something that they weren\

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