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Isaiah’s World · c. 735 BC

One landscape, three changing political moments · The King speaks first; history answers afterward.

Historical scene:Ahaz in Judah · Pekah in Israel · Rezin in Aram-DamascusWorking view · c. 735 BCOriginal vector schematic · no photographs · works offline
Three moments · one geographical foundation
Before the major northern annexations. No later capture is shown as completed.

The land and its changing kingdoms

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M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A Sea of Galilee Dead Sea Jordan River Jezreel Valley Galilee uplands Central highlands Judean highlands ISRAEL Pekah · Samaria JUDAH Ahaz · Jerusalem ARAM Rezin · Damascus Phoenician coast Philistine coast Northern districtsannexed (general area) Gilead regionaffected Damascus falls ISRAEL Hoshea · Samaria Reduced kingdom survives Northern districtsannexed earlier Gilead regionaffected earlier Damascus under Assyria SAMARIA Under Assyria Israel’s monarchy ends JUDAH Separate kingdom JerusalemSamariaDamascusMegiddoHazorKedeshAbel-beth-maacahIjon — proposed Tell DibbineDorLachishEkron N Research schematic · site pins approximate · political halos are NOT borders
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Royal capitalsOther sitesProposed identificationColors suggest setting, not precise frontiers.735 BC: the three kingdoms before conquest.
Original historical schematic: coordinate pins mark places, not surveyed 8th-century city footprints. Semi-transparent political areas and later overlay are approximate contexts, never precise frontiers or routes.
Witnesses alongside Scripture

What changes when we move to c. 732 BC?

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Research overview · 735 BC

At this earlier view, the royal capitals remain Jerusalem, Samaria and Damascus. The subsequent conquests and deportations have not been shown as completed.

What Was Known? Isaiah 7’s warning belongs to Ahaz’s crisis, not to an audience already looking back on the completed fall of Damascus and the end of Samaria.