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Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
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A Three-Year Sign
A major point of discussion among scholars is whether Isaiah walked partially naked for three full years. Most commentators, citing Hebrew grammar and logic, suggest this is unlikely. Instead, they argue that his act was a 'three-year sign'—a symbolic prophecy indicating that a three-year period of calamity and captivity was coming upon Egypt and Ethiopia.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Like as - That is, as Isaiah has gone stripped of his special garment as a prophet, so shall the Egyptians and Ethiopians be stripped of all…
19th Century
Anglican
For a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia. —Apparently Isaiah prophesied in act, but in silence, and did not unf…
16th Century
Protestant
Three years. Why for such a period? Because that was the time granted to the Egyptians and Ethiopians, during which the Lord gave them a t…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the Lord said Here follows the explanation of the sign, and the accommodation of it to the thing signified by it…
The invasion and conquest of Egypt and Ethiopia.
Isaiah was a sign to the people by his unusual dress when he walked about. He commonly wore…
13th Century
Catholic
In the year that. Here the time of the destruction is described, and it is divided into three parts:
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