Prophet Isaiah

Isaiah, son of Amoz, prophesied in Jerusalem in the eighth century BC, under Kings Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, at a time when Assyria was swallowing up the small kingdoms of the region. He tells of his call in the Temple, where he saw the Lord enthroned and the seraphim crying 'Holy, holy, holy', and answered: 'Here am I; send me.'

He counselled Hezekiah when the Assyrian king Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem in 701 BC. The book that bears his name is quoted in the New Testament more than any other prophet. A Jewish tradition, accepted by Tertullian and Jerome, holds that he died a martyr under Hezekiah's son Manasseh, sawn in two.