When were the Israelites in exile in Babylon?

Answer 1

The Book of Isaiah was written by two, and possibly three different authors over a period of more than a hundred years. The writings were probably separate at first, being later consolidated into a single scroll.

Isaiah, son of Amoz, also known as First Isaiah or I Isaiah, wrote most of chapters 1-39 during the eighth century BCE, in the reigns of Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah of Judah.

Second Isaiah wrote in the sixth century BCE during the Babylonian Exile.

Third Isaiah wrote immediately following the Return from Exile.

AnswerTradition places his lifetime in the 7th century BCE. AnswerIsaiah's opening statement in the Book of Isaiah, that he lived during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, means that he actually lived in the eighth century BCE.

Second Isaiah, the anonymous author who added several further chapterrs to the Book of Isaiah, lived during the sixth century BCE and the time of the Babylonian Exile. A further anonymous source for the final chapters of the Book of Isaiah, now knwn as Third Isaiah, lived shortly after the Babylonian Exile.

Answer 2

Isaiah did not go into exile. He died about one hundred years before the destruction of the land of Judah and the Temple. Nor was he exiled with the Ten Tribes, since he lived in the land of Judah, which was spared at that time.

Rather, it was Ezekiel who went into exile when the First Temple was destroyed. The traditional date of the Destruction was in 422 BCE. Other (non-traditional) sources place it at an earlier date.

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Answer 3

Isaiah's commission was in the year that King Uzziah died not long after 701 B.C. when the Assyrian army was destroyed.

Answer 4

According to traditional chronology, the Babylonian exile was from 422 BCE to 352 BCE (not 164 years earlier).

Answer 5

After the 1st Temple was destroyed

Answer 6

Jerusalem