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Prophecy · Israel and Judah740 BC

Isaiah sees the Lord in the year King Uzziah died

Dated from the sources quoted below

True span4004 BC – AD 100
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Told in

Isaiah 6:1–13In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up; and his train filled the temple.
Opening words from the World English Bible (public domain); the passage list is in-house

Who and where

IsaiahUzziahJerusalem ›
Names and references: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · coordinates: OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding · CC BY 4.0

How we know the date

ISBE's article “Isaiah” (1915) gives 740 BC.

Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation

The sources, word for word

“He dates his inaugural vision (6:1) in Uzziah's death-year, which was approximately 740 BC.”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · ISAIAH · gives 740 BC

Sources