They had two sons, naming one Shear-Jashub, meaning "A remnant shall return" Isaiah 7:3 and the younger, Maher-Shalal-Hash-Baz, meaning, "Spoil quickly, plunder speedily." Isaiah 8:3 The second interpretation, that it was simply an honorary title, "Mrs. Isaiah's wife was called "the prophetess" ( Isaiah 8:3), either because she was endowed with the prophetic gift, like Deborah ( Judges 4:4) and Huldah ( 2 Kings 22:14-20), or simply because she was the wife of "the prophet" ( Isaiah 38:1).
Thus Isaiah may have prophesied for as long as sixty-four years. Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of Hezekiah (who died 698 BC), and may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh. Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his career a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC. It is stated in the first verse of the Book of Isaiah that he prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah (or Azariah), Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah ( Isaiah 1:1). Isaiah is not mentioned anywhere outside of the Bible.
Russian icon of the Prophet Isaiah, 18th century ( iconostasis of Transfiguration Church, Kizhi monastery, Karelia, Russia).
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