ISAIAH, the first of the four greater prophets, was the son of Amos; and was of royal blood, his father being brother to Azariah king of Juda. He prophesied under the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, from the 785th to the 681st year before the Christian era; when king Manasseh caused him to be put to death in a very advanced age. His prophecies are in Hebrew; his style is noble, sublime, and florid: he speaks so clearly of Christ, and of the great circumstances of his life and death, that he appears to be rather an evangelist and an historian who relates what has already happened, than a man who foretells what was not to be accomplished till several ages were passed.