having been occasioned by the impression which the death of the king made upon him (see also M. Buber, Der Glaube der Propheten [1950] 181f.). There were no particularly important events on the international political scene in 739. Tiglath-Pileser III (745–727) was already past the initial difficulties of his reign, but had not yet made his appearance at the border of Israel. The prophecies from Isaiah’s early period of activity (chaps. 2, 3, 5) show that he was not particularly agitated because