The Hebrew calendar is the inspired method for determining when God's seven annual Feast days should be kept. Once in the city he started his ministry and began to preach the gospel (Matthew 4:14 - 17).
The fulfillment of this prophecy related to 19 occurred when Christ, who had lived in Nazareth all his life, moved at the age of 30 to the Galilean city of Capernaum. Matthew states, "The people who were sitting in darkness have seen a great light and to those who were sitting in the realm and shadow of death, light has sprung up." (Matthew 4:16, HBFV). This prophecy, which only the book of Matthew records as being fulfilled, came true during the life of Jesus. Isaiah prophesied that the land of Naphtali and Zebulon would someday see a shining beacon in their lands (Isaiah 9:1 - 2). It encompassed the entire western section of the Sea of Galilee. Their gift of land, from God, was in the northern most part of what would become Israel. The Israelite tribe of Naphtali received 19 cities, with their villages, as part of their inheritance in the Promised Land (Joshua 19:38). The number nineteen itself appears only three times in God's word (Genesis 11:25, Joshua 19:38 and 2Samuel 2:30). Nahor, the father of Terah, lived one hundred and nineteen years after he begat Abraham's father (Genesis 11:25).
No Biblical books exist that have exactly nineteen chapters. Of the ten most frequently mentioned women in the Bible, Mary (Jesus' mother) is listed 19 times.ĭeuteronomy 25 and 26, Nehemiah 5 and 6, Nahum 3, Habakkuk 3 and others contain exactly 19 verses in the KJV translation. Among all the scrolls unearthed over the years, nineteen copies of Isaiah the prophet have been identified. Discovered in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls were found east of Jerusalem.