# Isaiah

Source: https://enocharchive.com/characters/isaiah (Enoch Archive).

Isaiah the son of Amoz was a prophet of God who lived one hundred and twenty years and prophesied for ninety of them. In the Cave of Treasures he failed to rebuke King Uzziah for entering the Holy of Holies and burning incense, and so was barred from prophesying until Uzziah died; later he rebuked the idolatrous Manasseh, who filled Jerusalem with iniquity, and was therefore sawn in two from head downward, after which Manasseh repented in sackcloth and tears.

The Ascension of Isaiah presents him delivering visions in the twentieth year of Hezekiah to his son and warning that Manasseh would nullify the king’s commands and that Isaiah would perish amid bodily torture through Sammael’s counsel. The Kebra Nagast repeatedly cites his oracles on the humble coming one, on Israel’s rejection, and on spiritual blindness, and recalls that God was angry because Isaiah had not rebuked Uzziah.

**books:** The Cave of Treasures; The Kebra Nagast; The Ascension of Isaiah