Verses 12-14
Discomfiture of the Assyrians
A short prophecy, in which Isaiah foretells sudden disaster for the Assyrian invaders; it is parallel to Isaiah 14:24-27,; belongs to the same period.
12-13. The Assyrian hosts advance against Judah, but are suddenly dispersed in a single night.
12. Read, ’Ah, the uproar of many peoples, which roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing,’ etc. Many people] The Assyrian army was recruited from many nations.
13. Rolling thing] RV ’whirling dust’: cp. Psalms 83:13.
14. Specially fulfilled in the destruction of Sennacherib’s army (Isaiah 37:36).
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