Israel starts plotting an assassination of the king of Judah.

Oh man.

To put their own puppet king in there.

So that they'll join the coalition.

Oh, that is intrigue.

That's right.

And so at one point, Israel even invades Judah and kills 120,000 Judean soldiers in this effort to gain Judah's military

might along with them.

Welcome to the Spoken Gospel podcast.

Spoken Gospel is a ministry that's dedicated to speaking the gospel out of every corner of Scripture.

In Luke 24, Jesus told his disciples that every part of the Bible is about him.

In each episode, hosts David and Seth work through a passage of Scripture to see how it's all about Jesus and his good news.

Let's jump in. Well, welcome everybody to the spoken gospel podcast. Thank you so much for joining us.

We are starting

our journey through the book of Isaiah, one of the largest, most important, most influential

books in the Bible. I'm so excited. How are you feeling, Seth? I mean, you really said,

I've set the stakes high. You put the bar real high. So, you're going to jump over.

I mean, it is. Of the 66 chapters in the book of Isaiah, 47 of them are mentioned in the New Testament.

Oh, my gosh.

The New Testament authors loved the Book of Isaiah, and they pulled a lot of their theology about the Messiah and who Jesus was from the book of Isaiah. It's a massively

important book in our Bibles. Yeah. Why do you think it is that it was such a beloved book?

I have thought about that. Part of the reason is because of the types of things that Isaiah says,

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