Isaiah 17

Isaiah 17 is the seventeenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains the prophecies attributed to the prophet Isaiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. The New King James Version describes this chapter as a "proclamation against Syria and Israel".

Text

The original text was written in Hebrew. This chapter is divided into 14 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis.
Fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls :

1QIsa^a: complete
4QIsa^a : extant: verses 9-14
4QIsa^b : extant: verses 8-14

There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.

Parashot

The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Isaiah 17 is a part of the Prophecies about the Nations . : open parashah; : closed parashah.

Verse 1

"Burden" : the keyword in the superscriptions for a total of nine similar oracles; the others being: Isaiah 13:1; 15:1; 19:1; 21:1, 11, 13; 22:1; 23:1.

Verse 2

In the Septuagint, the wording is abandoned for ever, referring to Damascus, not Aroer in Moab. Anglican Bishop Robert Lowth preferred to use the Septuagint translation: "What has Aroer... on the river Arnon, to do with Damascus?” Hugo Grotius, however, thought the Hebrew text was correct, and that this Aroer was a tract of ground in Syria.
A marginal note in the Masoretic Text tradition indicates that Isaiah 17:2 is the middle of the whole Nevi'im section in Hebrew.