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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:22

For though thy people Israel - I have endeavored to keep to the letter of the text as nearly as I can in this obscure passage; but it is remarkable that neither the Septuagint, nor St. Paul, Romans 9:28 , who, except in a few words of no great importance, follows them nearly in this place, nor any one of the ancient Versions, take any notice of the word שטף shoteph , overflowing; which seems to give an idea not easily reconcilable with those with which it is here joined. 1. S. Maerlius... read more

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:28

He is come to Aiath - A description of the march of Sennacherib's army approaching Jerusalem in order to invest it, and of the terror and confusion spreading and increasing through the several places as he advanced; expressed with great brevity, but finely diversified. The places here mentioned are all in the neighborhood of Jerusalem; from Ai northward, to Nob westward of it; from which last place he might probably have a prospect of Mount Sion. Anathoth was within three Roman miles of... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:29

They are gone over the passage "They have passed the strait" - The strait here mentioned is that of Michmas, a very narrow passage between two sharp hills or rocks, (see 1 Samuel 14:4 , 1 Samuel 14:5 ;), where a great army might have been opposed with advantage by a very inferior force. The author of the Book of Judith might perhaps mean this pass, at least among others: "Charging them to keep the passages of the hill country, for by them there was an entrance into Judea; and it was easy... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:30

Cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anothoth "Hearken unto her, O Laish; answer her, O Anathoth!" - I follow in this the Syriac Version. The prophet plainly alludes to the name of the place, and with a peculiar propriety, if it had its name frown its remarkable echo. " ענתות anathoth , responsiones: eadem ratio nominis, quae in ענת בית beith anath , locus echus; nam hodienum ejus rudera ostenduntur in valle, scil. in medio montium, ut referent Robertus in Itiner. p. 70, et... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:33

Shall lop the bough with terror - פארה purah ; but פורה purah , wine-press, is the reading of twenty-six of Kennicott's and twenty-three of De Rossi's MSS., four ancient editions, with Symmachus, Theodotion, and the Chaldee. read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 10:34

Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one - באדיר beaddir , the angel of the Lord, who smote them, Kimchi. And so Vitringa understands it. Others translate, "The high cedars of Lebanon shall fall:" but the king of Assyria is the person who shall be overthrown. read more

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