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Isaiah 14:28

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 14:28

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

In the year that King Ahaz died was this burden. These words introduce the "burden of Philistia," and shows that it is chronologically out of place, since the prophecies from . to have belonged to the reign of Hezekiah.

Ahaz appears to have died early in B.C. 725.

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