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A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on Isaiah 1–27, Volume 2: Commentary on Isaiah 6–12 is unavailable, but you can change that!

This eagerly anticipated volume is the second installment in H. G. M. Williamson’s International Critical Commentary on first Isaiah. Williamson continues in this tradition, adding to his already published volume on Isaiah 1–5. Covering the next seven chapters of Isaiah, Williamson incorporates a range of secondary scholarly material with examination of all the key textual and critical issues...

when the word is applied to God; see especially 42:13 (parallel with ‘man of wars’). At Ps. 24:8 the Lord is described as a ‘גבור of/in battle’. Just as we have איש גבור as a mighty man who the context shows was a warrior (1 Sam. 14:52) and מלך גבור as a mighty king to whom the same considerations apply (Dan. 11:3), so here we have אל גבור, a Mighty God to carry out his remarkable plan which the context earlier in the poem also suggests should include military deliverance for his people.123 Nonetheless,
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