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Isaiah (יְשַׁעְיָהוּ "Salvation is the LORD") was a major prophet in the [[Old Testament]]. He was the son of [[Amoz]], and the author of the [[Book of Isaiah]].
Isaiah was born in the 8th century BC to a man named Amoz. He married a woman known as "the prophetess" ([[Isaiah 8:3]]). Why she was called this is not certain, but it may simply have been because she was the wife of a prophet. Isaiah had by her two sons, who bore symbolic names - Shear-jashub ('Remnant will return' - [[Isaiah 7:3]]) and Maher-shalal-hash-baz ('To speed the spoil he hastens your prey' - [[Isaiah 8]]:1-4).
His ministry as a prophet was during the reigns of [[Uzziah]] (or Azariah), [[Jotham]], [[Ahaz]], and [[Hezekiah]] ([[Isaiah 1:1]]), the kings of Judah. Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death. He lived until at least the fourteenth year of Hezekiah, and he may have been contemporary for some years with [[Manasseh]]. Thus Isaiah may have prophesied for the long period of at least sixty-four years.
===Isaiah's prophetic ministry===
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