Isaiah 14:28
ESV
In the year that King Ahaz died came this oracle:
NIV
This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:
NASB
In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:
CSB
In the year that King Ahaz died, this pronouncement came:
NLT
This message came to me the year King Ahaz died:
KJV
In the year that king Ahaz died was this burden.
NKJV
This is the burden which came in the year that King Ahaz died.
What does Isaiah 14:28 mean?
Isaiah begins a new oracle—a prophecy—in this verse. This "burden" (Ezekiel 12:10 NASB; Malachi 1:1 KJV) is written against the nation of Philistia. This nation had been a longtime enemy of Israel (Judges 10:7; 1 Samuel 4:1; 7:10; 14:52; 2 Samuel 21:15; 1 Chronicles 10:1). The prophet writes this prophecy in the year that King Ahaz dies (2 Kings 16:20; 2 Chronicles 28:27). It is one of three prophecies in the book of Isaiah that can be anchored, at least vaguely, to a specific time. The others are found in Isaiah 6 and Isaiah 20:1–2.Commentators suggest Ahaz may have died in 715 BC. This would have been when the Philistines were attempting to revolt against the Assyrians during the reign of Sargon II (Isaiah 20:1; 1 Samuel 5:1). Others think Ahaz may have died earlier than that date.
