Isaiah Chapter 31
Foolishness of trusting in Egypt
Exhortation to conversion
Assyria’s Doom
1 Sivan 5784 (1 Sivan 5784 (June 6, 2024))
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Foolishness of trusting in Egypt
Exhortation to conversion
Assyria’s Doom
Ephraim is threatened for pride
The straying scolded
Zion’s precious corner stone
Consideration of God’s providence
Vision of the fall of Babylon
Repentance of Edom
Prophecy on the Arabs
Destruction of Jerusalem
Jerusalem’s reestablishment
All nations to worship Yahweh of hosts
Jerusalem a door of trembling
Restoration of Judah
Jerusalem’s repentance
Prophecies against neighboring nations
Zion is urged to rejoice for the coming of Messiah
Victory is promised
Zechariah’s exhortation
Vision of the horses
Promises to Jerusalem
A vision of horns and carpenters
Haggai encourages the people
Greater glory of the second temple
A promise to Zerubbabel
Habakkuk’ s Complaint
Habakkuk is shown the fearful vengeance of the Chaldeans
Habakkuk’s questions
Reproof of Israel for oppression and idolatry
Also for Israel’s incorrigibility
God’s terrible judgments
Exhortation to repentance
A fast prescribed
Zion comforted
Overthrow of Persia by Greece
Conflicts between other kings and nations
Impious tyranny of Rome
Nicanor’s blasphemies
Judas lectures his men. His dream
The disposition of the combatants
The defeat and death of Nicanor
Compiler’s epilogue
Incidents at Joppa and Jamnia
The Expedition in Gilead
The battle of Carnaim
The return by the way of Ephron and Scythopolis
The Campaign against Gorgias
The sacrifice for the fallen
The first campaign of Lysias
Lysias makes peace with the Jews. Four letters concerning the treaty
The Purification of the Temple
VI The Struggle of Judas against the Neighboring people and against Lysias, Minister of Antiochus V
Reign of Antiochus V: early years
Gorgias and the Idumaean fortress
Judas defeats Timotheus and captures Gezer
III the Story of Helodorus
The arrival of Helodorus
Unease In Jerusalem
The Punishment of Helodorus
The conversion of Helodorus
Alexander Balas competes for Jonathan’s support and appoints him high priest
A letter from Demetrius I to Jonathan
Jonathan rejects the offers of Demetrius – death of Demetrius
Alexander’s marriage to Cleopatra. Jonathan as commander-in-chief and governor-general
Demetrius II. Apollonius, governor of Coele-Syria, Defeated by Jonathan
A eulogy of the Romans
The alliance between the Jews and the Romans
The last days of Antiochus Epiphanes
The access of Antiochus V
The siege of the Citadel of Jerusalem by Judas Maccabaeus
Campaign of Antiochus V and Lysias
Capture of Beth-Zur and siege of Mount Zion by the Syrians
The king grants the Jews religious freedom
Alexander and his successors
Antiochus Epiphanes: Israel infected with Helenism
First Egyptian campaign and pillage of the Temple
Intervention of the Mysarch and construction of the Acra
Installation of the gentile cults
Mordecai is advanced
The decree against the Jews is reversed
Joy of the Jews
Hanani and Hananiah in charge of Jerusalem
Registry of the returned
The oblations of the returned
Ezra’s return companions
Ezra delivers the treasures
They are weighed
Orders are delivered