TABLE OF DATES. B.C. 721. Fall of Samaria. Captivity of Northern Israel. 701. Deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib. 696?-641. Reign of Manasseh. Supposed time of Isaiah's death. 630. Josiah's Reformation begun. 629 or 628. Jeremiah called to be a prophet. 621. The Book of Deuteronomy discovered. 607. Fall of Nineveh and Assyria. Babylon supreme. THE EXILE. 599-598. Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar. First Captivity of the Jews. 594. Ezekiel begins to prophesy in Chaldea. 587. Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar. Second Captivity of the Jews. Flight of many Jews with Jeremiah to Egypt. 585. Battle of the Eclipse. Triple League: Babylon, Media, Lydia. 561. Nebuchadrezzar dies. Evil-Merodach succeeds. 559. Neriglissar succeeds Evil-Merodach. 554. Nabunahid or Nabonidos usurps the throne of Babylon. Harder times for the Jews. 549. Fall of Median monarchy before Cyrus. 545. Cyrus attacks Babylonia from the north, and is repulsed. Invades Lydia, and takes Sardis and King Crœsus. 538. Cyrus captures Babylon. Permission to the Jews to return and rebuild Jerusalem. Zerubbabel, Joshua. * * * * * 529. Cyrus dies. Cambyses sole king. 522. Cambyses dies. 521. Babylon revolts. Retaken by Darius. 486. Xerxes succeeds Darius. 466. Artaxerxes Longimanus. 458. Second great return of Jews. Ezra. 401. Revolt and defeat of Cyrus. The Anabasis. #/ INTRODUCTION. This volume upon Isaiah xl.-lxvi. carries on the exposition of the Book of Isaiah from the point reached by the author's previous volume in the same series. But as it accepts these twenty-seven chapters, upon their own testimony, as a separate prophecy from a century and a half later than Isaiah himself, in a style and on subjects not altogether the same as his, and as it accordingly pursues a somewhat different method of exposition from the previous volume, a few words of introduction are again necessary.