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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:5

O Assyrian - The word הוי hôy, is commonly used to denounce wrath, or to indicate approaching calamity; as an interjection of threatening; Isaiah 1:4. ‘Wo sinful nation;’ Isaiah 10:8, Isaiah 10:11, Isaiah 10:18, Isaiah 10:20-21; Jeremiah 48:1; Ezekiel 13:2. The Vulgate so understands it here: Vae Assur; and the Septuagint, Οὐαι Ἀσσυρίοις Ouai Assuriois - ‘Woe to the Assyrians.’ So the Chaldee and the Syriac. It is not then a simple address to the Assyrian; but a form denouncing wrath on the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:6

I will send him - Implying that he was entirely in the hand of God, and subject to his direction; and showing that God has control over kings and conqueror’s; Proverbs 21:1.Against an hypocritical nation - Whether the prophet here refers to Ephraim, or to Judah, or to the Jewish people in general, has been an object of inquiry among interpreters. As the designs of Sennacherib were mainly against Judah. it is probable that that part of the nation was intended. This is evidently the case, if, as... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:7

Howbeit he meaneth not so - It is not his purpose to be the instrument, in the hand of God, of executing his designs. He has a different plan; a plan of his own which he intends to accomplish.Neither doth his heart think so - He does not intend or design it. The “heart” here, is put to express “purpose, or will.”It is “in his heart to cut off nations - Utterly to destroy or to annihilate their political existence.Not a few - The ambitious purpose of Sennacherib was not confined to Judea. His... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:8

For he saith - This verse, and the subsequent verses to Isaiah 10:11, contain the vaunting of the king of Assyria, and the descriptions of his own confidence of success.Are not my princes altogether kings? - This is a confident boast of his “own” might and power. His own dominion was so great that even his princes were endowed with the ordinary power and “regalia” of kings. The word “princes,” may here refer either to those of his own family and court - to the satraps and officers of power in... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:9

Is not Calno as Carchemish? - The meaning of this confident boasting is, that none of the cities and nations against which be had directed his arms, had been able to resist him. All had fallen before him; and all were alike prostrate at his feet. Carchemish had been unable to resist him, and Calno had shared the same fate. Arpad had fallen before him, and Hamath in like manner had been subdued. The words which are used here are the same nearly that Rabshakeh used when he was sent by Sennacherib... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:10-11

The argument in these two verses is this: ‘The nations which I have subdued were professedly under the protection of idol gods. Yet those idols were not able to defend them - though stronger than the gods worshipped by Jerusalem and Samaria. And is there any probability, therefore, that the protection on which you who are Jews are leaning, will be able to deliver you?’ Jerusalem he regarded as an idolatrous city, like others; and as all others had hitherto been unable to retard his movements,... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:12

Wherefore ... - In this verse God, by the prophet, threatens punishment to the king of Assyria for his pride, and wicked designs.His whole work - His entire plan in regard to the punishment of the Jews. He sent the king of Assyria for a specific purpose to execute his justice on the people of Jerusalem. That plan he would execute entirely by the hand of Sennacherib, and would “then” inflict deserved, punishment on Sennacherib himself, for his wicked purposes.Upon mount Zion - Mount Zion was a... read more

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:13

For he saith - The king of Assyria saith. This verse and the following are designed to show the reason why the king of Assyria should be thus punished. It was on account of his pride, and wicked plans. He sought not the glory of God, but purposed to do evil.For I am prudent - I am wise; attributing his success to his own understanding, rather than to God.I have removed the bounds of the people - That is, ‘I have changed the limits of kingdoms; I have taken away the old boundaries, and made new... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:14

And my hand hath found, as a nest - By a beautiful and striking figure here, the Assyrian monarch is represented as describing the ease with which he had subdued kingdoms, and rifled them of their treasures. No resistance had been offered. He had taken them with as little opposition as a rustic takes possession of a nest, with its eggs or young, when the parent bird is away.Eggs that are left - That is, eggs that are left of the parent bird; when the bird from fright, or any other cause, has... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 10:5

Isaiah 10:5. O Assyrian, &c. We have here the fourth section of the fifth sermon, which reaches to the end of this chapter, and which is two-fold; containing, 1st, A proposition in this verse; and, 2d, The unfolding of it in the following verses. It is a new and distinct prophecy, and, as the former part of it foretels the invasion of Sennacherib and the destruction of his army, it must have been delivered before the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign. “In the former chapters the... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:6

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:8

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:10-11

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 10:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 10:5

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