Isa 51:2-3 | TNotes | STEP | 51:2 Abraham ... became a great nation: The exiled community had decreased in number. They needed to have faith that God could restore them again to a healthy and thriving population.

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‏ Isaiah 51:2-3

51:2 ^a Abraham ... became a great nation: The exiled community had decreased in number. They needed to have faith that God could restore them again to a healthy and thriving population.
51:3 ^b Eden ... the garden of the Lord: God’s salvation will one day reestablish conditions like those in which human beings first lived (see Gen 2–3 ^c).