Welcome to episode 157 of Bible Talk. My name is Alex Duke. And with me are my two friends who are sitting in different places. Jim Hamilton. Sam Amati.

Jim, what's what gives? Why did you decide to sit here? You're just taking your claim? I just like Sam's spot and wanted to sit in.

You try to go for this throw. You better watch out. I'm going to get here early.

This is going to throw me off. Displace you. I'm not going to be able to put a sentence together this whole episode. Sam was like, are my legs going to be showing? In dead, maybe. Bible Talk is a podcast brought you by Nine Marks. Nine Marks exists to help pastors build healthy churches. It's also brought to by Southern Seminary, which exists to educate, trained, and equip gospel ministers for a lifetime of faithful service.

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Okay, last week, which for us was a few weeks ago, we covered Isaiah 5.

We talked about how the Lord pronounces woes over Israel for its sort of degraded spiritual

state. And then he promises to basically raise up other nations to judge Israel.

Today, we're going to do Isaiah chapter six, which has a pretty jarring. What are you looking at?

I'm looking at your cardinal's hat. And I'm thinking about Sam wearing a hat. Go ahead.

Like, you don't know that, Jim. You've got good hair. That's, I mean, look at this. I think I have okay hair.

Come on. Anyway, so we're going to do Isaiah 6 today, which, which does have a jar. It's a jarring transition, which we'll get to in a moment.

So I'm wondering, is there like some structural medium to high level comments that we need to make before we dive in?

Am I right to say that it, I mean, it's certainly a transition of a sort.

So, you know, this opening phrase in the year, this is a phrase that will,

in other prophetic books like Daniel, you'll have several chapters that are, or several,

you know, text units within the book that are opened with a phrase like, in the first year of

King So and so, or in the third year of King So and so. So this opening in the year year of king so-and-so, or in the third year of king so-and-so. So this opening in the year, it can kind of signal a new point of departure.

But we also saw that in First and Second Kings.

It's kind of when they open a new king.

And it happens, so in the year that a certain king died, like in this case, 6-1, in the year that King was I died, over in

chapter 14, verse 28, says in the year that King Ahaz died. And then in chapter 20, verse one,

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