metonymic approach recognizes that these themes are not unique to Isa 7–9 but are part of a larger pattern of God’s ways of working. If space permitted, similar themes of imperial power as a means of punishment for disobedience and of God’s salvation from it could be elaborated in relation to the exodus,33 to prophetic views of Babylon’s roles (Jeremiah, Deutero-Isaiah), to the Deuteronomic view of exile (cf. Deut 28:15–68; 29:24–29; 1 Kgs 8:46–53; 2 Kgs 21:10–16), to 2 Maccabees’ perception of Antiochus