Isaiah 6

Isaiah 6
Isaiah 6
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	The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book	Book of Isaiah
Category	Nevi'im
Christian Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Christian part	23

Isaiah 6 is the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.^[1]^[2] This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.^[3]^[4] It records the calling of Isaiah to be the messenger of God to the people.

Text

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

Masoretic Text (10th century)
Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)^[5]^[6]
- 1QIsa^a: complete^[5]
- 4QIsa^a (4Q55): extant: verses 4-7^[5]
- 4QIsa^f (4Q60): extant: verses 3‑8, 10‑13^[5]

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple.^[7]

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,

Whom shall I send,

and who will go for us?

Then said I,

Here am I; send me.^[8]

^ Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
^ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
^ J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
^ Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah
^ Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
^ Isaiah 6:1
^ Isaiah 6:8