**The Talmud, Yebamoth 49b, records death of prophet ISAIAH** as, Supposedly Manasseh bought him to trial for contradicting Moses teachings that,
- Man could not see God and live (Exodus 33:20). Isaiah had claimed that he saw God recorded (Isaiah 6:1).
- Moses had taught God was near Israel (Deuteronomy 4:7). Isaiah said that God must be sought in (Isaiah 55:6).
- Moses taught God would fulfill our days , not make additions (Exodus 23:26). Isaiah said that God would add fifteen years to Hezekiah (2 kings 20:6).
_**Knowing that Manassah would not accept anything he said, Isaiah**_
> thereupon pronounced [the divine] Name and was swallowed up by a cedar. The cedar, however, was bought and sawn asunder. When the saw reached his mouth he died.
In **Sanhedrin 103b,** another talmudic tradition says that the statement that Manasseh shed innocent blood every day, 2 Kings 21:16, was interpreted in Babylon to refer to killing of Isaiah.
_**Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho 120, in Ante-Nicene Father, I, 259,**_ records the tradition: whom [Isaiah] you sawed with a wooden saw.
Origen, **Ante-Nicene Father, IV, 388**, refers to the “tradition … that Esaias the Prophet was sawn asunder”.
Similar references can be found among others as,
- _Albert barens, I, 10;_
- _Page H. Kelley, Isaiah in The Broadman Bible commentary, V, 1971, 150;_
- _George Rawlinson, Isaiah, in The Pulpit Commentary,_
- _Refer to the view that Hebrew 11:37 refers to Isaiah’s death._
Referenced from Peter A Steveson’s commentary on Isaiah.