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Come Follow Me 2022: Isaiah 1-12
Scripture Block

Isaiah 1–12

September 5–11. “God Is My Salvation”

Videos

Bible Central Guide to Isaiah

Books on Isaiah

Reading Plan

Monday

Further Reading

Tuesday

Wednesday

Further Reading

Thursday

Friday

Further Reading

Saturday

Sunday

Isaiah and the Book of Mormon Reading Plan

September 5–11: Isaiah 1–12

September 5: Study Tips from Nephi

September 6: Multiple Fulfillments

September 7: Warnings against Pride

September 8: The Lord’s Stretched Out Hand

September 9: How the Lord Call’s Prophets

September 10: Prophecies of Christ’s Birth

September 11: Joseph and the Restoration

September 12–18: Isaiah 13–14, 24–30, 35

September 12: The End Times

September 13: The Fallen Angel

September 14: The Familiar Spirit

September 15: Nephi Likens Isaiah 29

September 16: The Sealed Book

September 17: Line Upon Line

September 18: Fire and Brimstone

September 19–25: Isaiah 40–49

September 19: New Testament and Book of Mormon Quotations

September 20: Prophecies of the Redeemer

September 21: The Scattering of the Jews

September 22: The Day of the Gentiles

September 23: Likening Isaiah 48–49 to Lehi’s Family

September 24: Joseph Smith as the Servant

September 25: The Daughter of Zion

  • Isaiah 3:16–23

September 26–October 2: Isaiah 50–57

September 26: Abinadi Explains Isaiah to Noah’s Priests

September 27: The Meaning of Nauvoo

September 28: Isaiah and Micah

 

September 29: The Book of Mormon as the Servant

September 30: Abinadi, Alma, and the Suffering Servant

October 1: Christ’s Likening of Isaiah 54

October 2: Great are the Words of Isaiah

Bibliography

Isaiah 1–12

Donald W. Parry and Janet L. Garrand Willis, “Notes on Vocabulary in Isaiah 2-11, 13-14, 29, 48-54,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 409–422.

David Rolph Seely, “Nephi's Use of Isaiah 2-14 in 2 Nephi 12-30,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 151–169.

Isaiah 1

Book of Mormon Central, “How Does Nephi Help Us Understand Isaiah? (2 Nephi 25:4),” KnoWhy 47 (March 4, 2016).

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Would Jesus Call Isaiah’s Words Great? (3 Nephi 23:1),” KnoWhy 217 (October 26, 2016).

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did Nephi Say the Devil Leads Sinners by a “Flaxen Cord”? (2 Nephi 26:22),” KnoWhy 551 (February 25, 2020).

Isaiah 2

Book of Mormon Central, “How Does Nephi Help Us Understand Isaiah? (2 Nephi 25:4),” KnoWhy 47 (March 4, 2016).

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Would Jesus Call Isaiah’s Words Great? (3 Nephi 23:1),” KnoWhy 217 (October 26, 2016).

Book of Mormon Central, “How Does Nephi Use Isaiah to Teach Us to Avoid Pride? (2 Nephi 15:21; Isaiah 5:21),” KnoWhy 48 (March 7, 2016).

Paul Y. Hoskisson, “Was Joseph Smith Smarter Than the Average Fourth Year Hebrew Student? Finding a Restoration-Significant Hebraism in Book of Mormon Isaiah,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 17 (2016): 151–158.

Isaiah 3

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Does Isaiah Prophesy of the Daughter of Zion? (2 Nephi 13:16–17),” KnoWhy 550 (February 18, 2020).

Isaiah 4

Matthew L. Bowen and Loren Blake Spendlove, “’Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins’: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 273–298.

Isaiah 5

Book of Mormon Central, “How Does Nephi Use Isaiah to Teach Us to Avoid Pride? (2 Nephi 15:21; Isaiah 5:21),” KnoWhy 48 (March 7, 2016).

John Gee, “Not Just Sour Grapes: Jesus’s Interpretation of Isaiah’s Song of the Vineyard,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 21–36.

Isaiah 6

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Are Lehi’s First Visions So Similar to Much Later Apocalyptic Writings? (1 Nephi 1:8),” KnoWhy 459 (August 16, 2018).

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did Alma See God Surrounded by Angels? (Alma 36:22),” KnoWhy 570 (July 21, 2020).

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did Nephi Say Serpents Could Fly? (1 Nephi 17:41),” KnoWhy 316 (May 22, 2017).

Book of Mormon Central, “How Did God Call His Prophets in Ancient Times? (1 Nephi 15:8),” KnoWhy 17 (January 22, 2016).

 Paul Y. Hoskisson, “A Latter-Day Saint Reading of Isaiah: The Example of Isaiah 6,” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center / Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2005), 209–225.

Neal Rappleye, “’With the Tongue of Angels’: Angelic Speech as a Form of Deification,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 21 (2016): 303–323.

William J. Hamblin, “The Sôd of YHWH and the Endowment,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 4 (2013): 147–154.

Stephen D. Ricks, “Heavenly Visions and Prophetic Calls in Isaiah 6 (2 Nephi 16), the Book of Mormon, and the Revelation of John,” in Isaiah in the Book of Mormon, ed. Donald W. Parry and John W. Welch (Provo, UT: Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies, 1998), 171–190.

Isaiah 7

Jason R. Combs, “From King Ahaz’s Sign to Christ Jesus: The “Fulfillment” of Isaiah 7:14,” in Prophets & Prophecies of the Old Testament (Provo, UT: BYU Religious Studies Center / Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book, 2017), 95–122.

Isaiah 9

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Did Benjamin Give Multiple Names for Jesus at the Coronation of his Son Mosiah? (Mosiah 3:8),” KnoWhy 536 (October 17, 2019).

Isaiah 10

Book of Mormon Central, “Why Does Isaiah Prophesy of the Daughter of Zion? (2 Nephi 13:16–17),” KnoWhy 550 (February 18, 2020).

Isaiah 11

Matthew L. Bowen, “’The Messiah Will Set Himself Again’: Jacob’s Use of Isaiah 11:11 in 2 Nephi 6:14 and Jacob 6:2,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 44 (2021): 287–306.

Matthew L. Bowen, “’We Are a Remnant of the Seed of Joseph’: Moroni’s Interpretive Use of Joseph’s Coat and the Martial nēs-Imagery of Isaiah 11:11–12,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 41 (2020): 169–192.

Matthew L. Bowen, “’They Shall No More Be Confounded’: Moroni’s Wordplay on Joseph in Ether 13:1-13 and Moroni 10:31,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 91–104.

Matthew L. Bowen, “’And the Meek Also Shall Increase’: The Verb YĀSAP in Isaiah 29 and Nephi’s Prophetic Allusions to the Name Joseph in 2 Nephi 25–30,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 30 (2018): 5–42.

Matthew L. Bowen and Loren Blake Spendlove, “’Thou Art the Fruit of My Loins’: The Interrelated Symbolism and Meanings of the Names Joseph and Ephraim in Ancient Scripture,” Interpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship 28 (2018): 273–298.