Isaiah

(i-zā'yah.) (Script.) One of the most eminent of the Hebrew prophets. He was the son of Amoz, but of his personal history very little is known. He prophesied under Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. His prophecies, though delivered later in point of time than several of those uttered by other prophets, occupy, in our Bible, the first place, both on account of their bulk, and for the sublimity and importance of the predictions. [s. 494]