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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 10:24-34

The prophet, in his preaching, distinguishes between the precious and the vile; for God in his providence, even in the same providence, does so. He speaks terror, in Sennacherib's invasion, to the hypocrites, who were the people of God's wrath, Isa. 10:6. But here he speaks comfort to the sincere, who were the people of God's love. The judgment was sent for the sake of the former; the deliverance was wrought for the sake of the latter. Here we have, I. An exhortation to God's people not to be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 10:24

Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts ,.... Since there is such a decree, and this will certainly be executed: O my people, that dwellest in Zion ; the inhabitants of Jerusalem; such of them especially as feared the Lord, and worshipped him, and served him in the temple: be not afraid of the Assyrian : the king of Assyria; neither Sennacherib, that threatened them with ruin, having taken the cities of Judah, and laid siege to Jerusalem; nor Nebuchadnezzar, who carried them... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 10:25

For yet a very little while ,.... Within a few days; for in a very short time after Sennacherib was come up against Jerusalem his army was destroyed by an angel: and the indignation shall cease ; the indignation of the Lord against his people Israel, shown by bringing the Assyrian monarch against them, of which he was the staff or instrument, Isaiah 10:5 , and mine anger in their destruction ; not in the destruction of the Jews, but the Assyrians: the sense is, that the anger of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 10:26

And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him ,.... The Assyrian monarch; this scourge stirred up or awakened by the Lord, with which that monarch was severely scourged, is no other than the angel that was sent of God to destroy his army, 2 Kings 19:35 , according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb : this refers to the destruction of the Midianites in the time of Gideon; and suggests, that the slaughter of the Assyrians should be like that, as it was; for as that... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 10:27

And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder ,.... The tax or tribute imposed upon Hezekiah by the king of Assyria, 2 Kings 18:14 , and his yoke from off thy neck ; the same with the burden; unless it means also the subjection of the cities of Judah, which were taken by the Assyrian; and indeed it may be extended further, and be considered as a prophecy not merely of deliverance from the present distress, but from the future... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:24

After the manner of Egypt "In the way of Egypt" - I think there is a designed ambiguity in these words. Sennacherib, soon after his return from his Egyptian expedition, which, I imagine, took him up three years, invested Jerusalem. He is represented by the prophet as lifting up his rod in his march from Egypt, and threatening the people of God, as Pharaoh and the Egyptians had done when they pursued them to the Red Sea. But God in his turn will lift up his rod over the sea, as he did at that... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:25

The indignation "Mine indignation" - Indignatio mea , Vulg. ἡ οργη , Sept. μου η οργη κατα σου , MS. Pachom. Μου ἡ οργη ἡ κατα σου , MS. 1. D. 2. So that זעמי zaami , or הזעם hazzaam , as one MS. has it, seems to be the true reading. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:26

And as his rod was upon the sea "And like his rod which he lifted up over the sea" - The Jewish interpreters suppose here an ellipsis of כ ke , the particle of similitude, before מטהו mattehu , to be supplied from the line above; so that here are two similitudes, one comparing the destruction of the Assyrians to the slaughter of the Midianites at the rock of Oreb; the other to that of the Egyptians at the Red Sea. Aben Ezra, Kimchi, Sal. ben Melec. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:27

From off thy shoulder - Bishop Lowth translates the whole verse thus: - "And it shall come to pass in that day, His burden shall be removed from off thy shoulder; And his yoke off thy neck: Yea, the yoke shall perish from off your shoulders.' On which he gives us the following note: I follow here the Septuagint, who for שמן מפני mippeney shamen read משכמיכם mishshichmeychem , απο των ωμων ὑμων , from your shoulders, not being able to make any good sense out of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 10:20-34

CONSOLATION FOR THE FAITHFUL IN ISRAEL . The destruction of Assyria shall be followed—how soon, is not said—by the return of a "remnant of Israel," not so much to their own land, as to God ( Isaiah 10:20 , Isaiah 10:21 ). The remnant, however, shall be but a remnant—judgment shall have overtaken the balk of the people ( Isaiah 10:22 , Isaiah 10:23 ). Still, there is reason for the faithful to take courage and be of good heart; Assyria will shortly receive a check ( ... read more

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