Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 10:19
The rest of the trees of his forest; the remainders of that mighty host. That a child may write them; that they may be easily numbered by the meanest accountant. A child may be their muster-master.
The rest of the trees of his forest; the remainders of that mighty host. That a child may write them; that they may be easily numbered by the meanest accountant. A child may be their muster-master.
AND THE REST OF THE TREES ... - Keeping up still the image of a large and once dense forest, to which he had likened the Assyrian army. ‘The rest’ here means that which shall be left after the threate...
CHAPTER 10 The Assyrian, His invasion of Immanuel's land, and His end 1. _The first four verses belong to the preceding chapter. A description of the Assyrian enemy (Isaiah 10:5)_ 2. _The overthrow o...
ASSYRIA'S BOASTFULNESS AND ITS PUNISHMENT. This prophecy, so far as it is Isaiah's, must be later than the capture of Carchemish in 717 and before Sennacherib's invasion in 701. Narrower limits cannot...
CHILD. lad. WRITE. reckon....
The destruction of the Assyrian army is described under the two figures of sickness and a conflagration. There is a certain amount of confusion in the metaphors, and undoubtedly the style deteriorates...
THEREFORE SHALL THE LORD, &C.— The punishment decreed for the Assyrian, and mentioned in the 12th verse, is here more fully set forth. This passage is easy to be understood, if the prophesy be compare...
SMITING OF THE SCOURGE TEXT: Isaiah 10:12-19 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the s...
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. THE REST - those who shall survive the destruction of the host. OF THE TREES OF HIS FOREST - same image as in ,...
5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
REST] RV 'remnant' (of the Assyrian armies). 20-23. The divine judgment will have a purifying effect on Judah; a remnant shall escape (Isaiah 1:9; Isaiah 6:13) who shall be truly devoted to Jehovah....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PLANS FOR JUDAH, ASSYRIA AND EGYPT ISAIAH CHAPTER S 10 TO 20 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 10 GOD’S JUDGEMENT AGAINST EVIL LAWS V1 *Woe to those who make crue...
AND THE REST OF THE TREES OF HIS FOREST SHALL BE FEW. — To number the host of an army, to count killed and wounded after a battle, was commonly the work of the royal scribe, who appears so often as in...
וּ שְׁאָ֥ר עֵ֛ץ יַעְרֹ֖ו מִסְפָּ֣ר יִֽהְי֑וּ...
CHAPTER IX ATHEISM OF FORCE AND ATHEISM OF FEAR ABOUT 721 B.C. Isaiah 10:5 IN chapter 28 Isaiah, speaking in the year 725 when Salmanassar IV was marching on Samaria, had explained to the politicia...
THE MIGHTY LAID LOW Isaiah 10:5-19 This question is addressed to the Assyrian invader, described as God's staff and rod. He was the means of inflicting deserved penalty on the world of that age, and...
This is a prophecy of judgment on Assyria, and is full of interest. Assyria is the power which Jehovah is using for the punishment of His people, but because it fails to understand its true relation t...
CHAPTER X....
In these verses, if I mistake not, the Lord is pointing to the cause of his mercy to his people, in delivering them from Assyria. It is not for their righteousness, for the parallel scripture saith, t...
19._And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be a number. _(167) When he adds that _the remnant of them will be a number_, he employs a Hebrew idiom to express that _they will be few_; and thu...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 9:8-21, 10, 11, AND 12. In Isaiah 9:8 the Spirit, having given the great leading facts as to Messiah, Immanuel, resumes the general history of Israel without...
AND THE REST OF THE TREES OF HIS FOREST SHALL BE FEW,.... Which were left unconsumed, that escaped this destruction, those of the Assyrian army that fled with Sennacherib their king; which, the Rabbin...
_And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them._ Ver. 19. And the rest of the trees … shall be few.] Heb., A number; _methe mispar,_ a poor few, and inconsiderable...
_Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts_ The sovereign Lord and General of his and of all other armies; _send among his fat ones leanness_ Strip him, and all his great princes and commanders, of...
WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...
And the rest of the trees of his forest, the few that have survived the devastation of the fire, SHALL BE FEW, THAT A CHILD MAY WRITE THEM, put down the number which he easily counted. Thus the Lord,...
FEW: _ Heb._ number...
5-19 See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. God designs to correct his people for their hypoc...
Isaiah 10:19 rest H7605 trees H6086 forest H3293 few H4557 child H5288 write H3789 (H8799) few - Heb. number,...
2). ASSYRIA WILL BE PUNISHED BECAUSE OF ITS ARROGANCE (ISAIAH 10:16). The punishment that Yahweh will bring on Assyria is now described. Yahweh will personally act to humble him. Analysis. a Therefo...
CHAPTER ISAIAH 10:5 ASSYRIA WILL ADVANCE AND CONQUER AS A JUDGMENT ON GOD'S PEOPLE BUT WILL FINALLY BE BROUGHT DOWN, FOR FINAL DELIVERANCE IS CERTAIN. In the remainder of this chapter is described God...
CONTENTS: The commission to invade Judah and its execution. Threatening of the invaders ruin after serving God's purpose. New encouragement given to God's people. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God som...
The first four verses, are properly a part of the preseding chapter, and contain a severe reproof of the magistrates who wrested the judgment of the poor and needy. Isaiah 10:5. _Oh Assyrian._ Hebrews...
_O Assyrian_ “O ASSYRIAN” “Ho Asshur,” the name both of the people and its national god. (_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._) THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD POWER The leading idea of the passage is the contrast...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:16 The mighty Assyrian army is reduced nearly to nothing. ⇐ ⇔...
THE ASSYRIAN INVASION OF JUDAH Isaiah 10:5. _O Assyrian, the rod of Mine anger, &c._ This prophecy may be used to illustrate the following truths of abiding interest. I. THE POWER OF EMPIRES AND THE...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 10:1 The prophecy begun in Isaiah 9:8 terminates with this stanza, which contains a warning against injustice and oppression, addressed to Israel and Judah equally, and accompanied...
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, tha...
Isaiah 37:36...
The rest — The remainder of that mighty host....