1In the year that the Tartan came to Ashdod, when Sargon king of Assyria sent him, and he fought against Ashdod and captured it—
2at that time Yahweh spoke by the hand of Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go and loosen the sackcloth from your waist and take off your sandal from your feet.” And he did so, walking naked and barefoot.
3And Yahweh said, “Just as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years as a sign and portent against Egypt and against Cush,
4so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks bared—the nakedness of Egypt.
5Then they will be shattered and ashamed because of Cush their hope and Egypt their splendor.
6And the inhabitant of this coastland will say in that day, ‘Look—so it is with our hope, to which we fled for help, to be delivered from the king of Assyria! How then shall we ourselves escape?’
Where this passage connects across Scripture — each link typed and reasoned, part of the AIT Bible Nexus Chart.
Isaiah's Sign Against Egypt
allusionIsaiah 8:18— The prophet and his actions/children serve as 'signs and portents' in Israel, the same distinctive phrasing describing Isaiah as a prophetic sign.
thematicIsaiah 19:4— Both prophecies foretell Egypt being handed over/led away captive by a foreign conqueror, part of Isaiah's oracles against Egypt.
thematicIsaiah 30:3— Both warn that reliance on Egypt/Cush for help will end in shame and disappointment.
thematicIsaiah 31:1— Both condemn fleeing to Egypt for help and rescue from Assyria rather than trusting Yahweh.
thematicJeremiah 13:1— Both feature a prophet performing a symbolic bodily/clothing act as an enacted sign-oracle.