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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

This terrible prediction of the ruin of the Assyrian army, though it is a threatening to them, is part of the promise to the Israel of God, that God would not only punish the Assyrians for the mischief they had done to the Israel of God, but would disable and deter them from doing the like again; and this prediction, which would now shortly be accomplished, would ratify and confirm the foregoing promises, which should be accomplished in the latter days. Here is, I. God Almighty angry, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:30

And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard ,.... Or, "the glory of his voice" F14 הוד קולו "gloriam vocis suae", V. L. Vatablus; "magnificam vocem suam", Piscator. ; his majestic voice, the voice of his word, as the Targum, giving orders for the destruction of the Assyrian army; this was heard by the angel who obeyed it: and such a voice will be heard, ordering the destruction of antichrist, and the antichristian powers, in the pouring out of the vials by the angels,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:31

For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down ,.... As anything is by a storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain: or "fear", or be "affrighted", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic versions render it; Sennacherib, the Assyrian monarch, and that part of his army which escaped, though not destroyed by it, were put into the utmost consternation: this shows that the prophecy in the context refers to the overthrow of the Assyrian army by the angel, when besieging Jerusalem in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:32

And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass ,.... The storm before mentioned, the wrath and righteous judgment of God, founded upon his unalterable purposes and decrees; and, wherever it came, would fall with great weight, sink deep, stick fast, and remain fixed and sure, like a rod or staff fastened in the earth: which the Lord shall lay upon him ; or, "cause to rest upon him" F15 יניח "requiescere faciet", Pagninus, Montanus; "quiescere faciet", Cocceius. ; the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet is ordained of old ,.... The place long ago appointed for the ruin of the Assyrian army, which pitched here: this was a valley near Jerusalem, the valley of the son of Hinnom; so called, from the drums and tabrets beat upon here, to prevent parents hearing the cries of their infants offered to Molech: into it was brought the filth and dung of the city; here malefactors were buried, it is said; and such as were condemned to burning were burned here; and such as had no burial were... read more

Adam Clarke

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

The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard - Kimchi understands this of the great destruction of the Assyrian host by the angel of the Lord. Instead of אץ בזעף bezaaph ats , "with swift anger, "five of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. and one of my own, read אף בזעם bezaam aph , "with detestation indignant." For אץ ats , "swift, "which is the common reading, forty-two of Kennicott's, forty-three of De Rossi's, and two of my own, have אץ ats , "wrath or fury." The former reading,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:31

Which smote with a rod "He that was ready to smite with his staff" - "Post אשור ashshur , forte excidit אשר asher ." - Secker. After אשור ashshur , probably אשר asher , "which, "has been omitted. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:32

The grounded staff "The rod of his correction" - For מוסדה musadah , the grounded staff, of which no one yet has been able to make any tolerable sense, Le Clerc conjectured מוסרה musarah , of correction; (see Proverbs 22:15 ;); and so it is in two MSS., (one of them ancient), and seems to be so in the Bodleian MS. The Syriac has בדה דשוע deshuebedah , Virgo domans, vet subjectionis , "the taming rod, or rod of subjection." With tabrets and harps - With every demonstration... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 30:33

For Tophet is ordained - Tophet is a valley very near to Jerusalem, to the southeast, called also the valley of Hinnom or Gehenna; where the Canaanites, and afterwards the Israelites, sacrificed their children, by making them pass through the fire, that is, by burning them in the fire, to Molech, as some suppose. It is therefore used for a place of punishment by fire; and by our blessed Savior in the Gospel for hell-fire, as the Jews themselves had applied it. See Chald. on Isaiah 33:14 ,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 30:27-33

A PROPHECY OF ASSYRIA 'S DESTRUCTION . Mr. Chcyne regards this passage as "a symbolic description of the judgment introduced by a theophany." But is it not rather a poetical description of God's judgment on Assyria, which may be, probably is, a type of his final judgment upon an iniquitous world? The mention of Assyria in Isaiah 30:31 seems to be decisive in favor of the prophecy being (primarily) of special application to the circumstances of the time. read more

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