The Pulpit Commentary — Isaiah — Volume 1 — Section 19

1-8; x:.:xi. 4-!l, et.a.). In the d&ys of Uuiah, Amos iv. 4); but it may also have the J'otht.m, Abu, and Xe1ekit.h. Uzziah (or stronger sense hero assigned it. Lowth Azariah, as !Je is sometimes called) reigned translates, "revolted from me;" Gescuiua, fifty-two yel\rs-probably from B.o. 811 to "fallen away from me;" Cheyne, "brnkeu n.c. 759; Jotham sixteen yeare-from B.O. away from me." 759 to B.O. 743; Ahaz also sixteen vears- Ver. 8.-The Oll , . . the ass. The ox frnm B.a. 748 to B.o. 727; and Hezekiah and the ass are probably selected as the twenty-nine years-from B.C. 727 to B.O. least intelligent of domostiootod animu.le 698. Isaiah probably prophl'sicd only in (so Jerome, Rosenmiiller, and Gcsenius). the later years of Uzziah, say from B.O. Yet even they recognize their owner or 760; but as be certainly continued bis pro- .master. Jeremiah coutr1LBts the brutish phetical career till Sennacherib's inv11sioii.• stupidity of Isra,·l with the wise iustinot of Judlll6 (oh. :xxnii. 5), which was not of animals tho.t have not been domesticated, e.arlier than ac. 705, he must have exercised as the stork,., the . t,1;rtle-dove, the crane, the prophet~s office for at least fifty-six and the swallow (viu. 7.). Isra.el doth not years. The lowest }>bssible estimate of the know; i.e. does not acknowledge.its Mailter duration of his ministrJ' is forty-seven years and Owner, pays him no respect, does -from the last year of Uzziab, B.o. 759, to not recognize him as either Owner or Master. the fourteenth of Hezeld.ah (ob. xxxviii. 5). Ky people. Compare the formula, so fre- The highest known to us is sixty-four years quent in Exodus, "Let my peopl.e go" (vii. -from the fourth year before Uzzie.h's death 16: viii. 1, 20; ix. 1, etc.). Israel was (B.c. 762)to t,helast - ~ ot:,.~etelriah (B.O. , • God's peopl~ by ,eleption (Gen. x,- I:~), by 698). (See' Speaker's Comln'enta.ry,'_ VO~-- v.. bovenaht_ (Exod. m. ~ ; xxiv. 8-8), 1