Yeshayahu: Perek 36

Read the text of Yeshayahu 36 Bullet Point Summary Yeshaya Perek 36 Note: This perek mirrors Melachim II, perakim 18, 19, 20. By the 14th year of Chizkiyahu’s rule, Sancheriv had already attacked and defeated many cities throughout Yehudah. Sancheriv sent his chief...

Yeshayahu: Perek 37

Read the text of Yeshayahu 37 Bullet Point Summary Yeshaya Perek 37 Note: This perek is a continuation of the previous perek. Chizkiyahu sent a delegation to Yeshaya to deliver the news that Sancheriv was planning to decimate the city of Yerushalyim and its residents....

Yeshayahu: Perek 38

Read the text of Yeshayahu 38 Bullet Point Summary Yeshaya Perek 38 Chizkiyahu became deathly ill. Hashem punished him for deliberately not having children. Chizkiyahu saw with Divine insight that the child who would be born, Menashe, would be an evil king who would...

Yeshayahu: Perek 39

Read the text of Yeshayahu 39 Bullet Point Summary Yeshaya Perek 39 Note: This perek mirrors Melachim II Perek 20. King Merodach Baladon of Bavel sent gifts to Chizkiyahu after hearing about his miraculous healing. Chizkiyahu gave the Babylonian emissaries a grand...

Yeshayahu: Perek 40

Read the text of Yeshayahu 40 Bullet Point Summary Yeshaya Perek 40 Note: This is the haftorah for Shabbos Nachamu. Yeshaya provides a two-fold comfort to Yisrael. Metsudos and Eben Ezra say that this prophecy refers to our current exile. Yisrael paid double for their...

Yeshayahu: Perek 41

Read the text of Yeshayahu 41 Bullet Point Summary Yeshaya Perek 41 Yeshaya brings the nations of the world to trial to address their false ideologies and inappropriate behaviors. Yeshaya tells the gentile nations to be silent and contemplate Who is truly in charge of...