Verse 17
17. The Lord shall bring upon thee That is, upon the population of Judah.
And upon thy father’s house The royal family.
Days… not come Afflictions, the like of which have never yet come.
From the day… Ephraim Since the ten tribes of Israel, under Jeroboam, revolted. See 1 Kings 12:16. After Tiglath-pileser, the king of Assyria probably within two years from the time his aid was sought by Ahaz had overthrown Rezin and Pekah in their second attempt upon Judah and Jerusalem, he turned to subdue some small kingdoms in the north, but came again to harass Egypt on the south, and made Judah subject to a worse vassalage than before, causing the whole country to become the battle-field of Assyria and Egypt. For some time agriculture was ruined. A pasturage of shrubs, thorns, and briers covered nearly the whole territory of Judah. Then, as against Assyria, Judah, in process of time, seeks relief from Egypt, which in turn also becomes a fatal ally. During many years afterward deterioration went on, until all things became true which Isaiah had predicted. Finally, Israel first, then Judah, was desolated of people, nationality, and government altogether. The Assyrian annals give us two kings by the name of Tiglath-pileser. The one mentioned in transactions here was the second. He invaded Israel twice; the second invasion is the one here given. See Rawlinson’s Herodotus, vol. i, p. 377.
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