Isaiah’s Legacy

About the Book:

At eight years old, Shulle has known only life in a small village with her loving but peculiar father. When Uncle Shebna offers shelter in Jerusalem in exchange for Shulle's help tutoring King Manasseh, Judah's five-year-old co-regent who displays the same peculiarities as her father, she's eager to experience the royal court. But Shulle soon realizes the limits of her father's strict adherence to Yahweh's Law when Uncle Shebna teaches her of the starry hosts and their power.

Convinced Judah must be freed from Yahweh's chains, she begins the subtle swaying of young Manasseh, using her charm and skills on the boy no one else understands. When King Hezekiah dies, twelve-year-old Manasseh is thrust onto Judah's throne, bitter at Yahweh and eager to marry the girl he adores. Assyria's crown prince favors Manasseh and twists his brilliant mind toward cruelty, beginning Shulle's long and harrowing journey to discover the Yahweh she'd never known, guided with loving wisdom by Manasseh's mother: Isaiah's daughter, the heartbroken Hephzibah. Amid Judah's dark days, a desperate remnant emerges, claiming the Lord's promise, "Though we're helpless now, we're never hopeless--because we serve El Shaddai." Shulle is among them, a girl who becomes a queen through Isaiah's legacy.

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“I am in awe of Andrews’s ability to consistently bring Scripture alive with such depth and richness of character. Written with elegance and incredible insight, Isaiah’s Legacy is a vivid and relevant look at a lesser-known chapter of Old Testament history—masterfully brought to life.” — Tosca Lee, New York Times best-selling author of Iscariot

“With her signature depth and deft touch, Mesu Andrews delivers another breathtaking story that breathes life into a seldom-studied time in the Old Testament.” — Roseanna M. White, best-selling author

“I picked up Isaiah’s Legacy by Mesu Andrews with trepidation. Not because I feared the writing, which is excellent, or her storytelling, which paints the Bible characters with vibrancy, but because I knew the story of Manasseh’s horrifying fall from grace, found in 2 Kings. I knew what I’d have to read to find redemption at the end. What I didn’t know was how beautifully Mesu Andrews would weave that devastating fall or the desperate need I would have to see the splendor of God’s restoration of the broken and defeated Manasseh. Isaiah’s Legacy is a soul-gripping look at the possibilities of sin’s corruption and God’s powerful sovereignty above all—even the stories we think we’re writing of our own lives. What a beautiful reminder that the light of God’s love and the strength of His hand can reach into the darkest hearts to transform lives for His glory and the ultimate fulfillment of His story.” — Pepper Basham, author of My Heart Belongs in the Blue Ridge and the Mitchell’s Crossroads series