If you were flipping through a deck of blue cards and came upon a red one in the middle, it would get your attention. It was like that today when I hit chapter 36 in my reading of Isaiah. Everything until then was a series of judgments on nations and woes on unbelieving Israel. Then suddenly we have a narrative, the only one in this 66-chapter book.
I’m no editor, but I said to myself, “Well, it must be an important story if the storyteller (God) selects it for showcasing from among an infinite number of contenders.” So I read on, and it was a little incident in which Assyria, having gobbled the northern kingdom, dispatched an emissary to the southern kingdom with this mocking message:
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