Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 10:30
Daughter — Jerusalem was the mother city, and lesser towns are commonly called her daughters.
Daughter — Jerusalem was the mother city, and lesser towns are commonly called her daughters.
Verse 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...
LIFT UP THY VOICE - That is, cry aloud from alarm and terror. The prophet here changes the manner of describing the advance of Sennacherib. He had described his rapid march from place to place Isaiah...
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...
GALLIM. Not identified. Probably _Beitfala'_ near Bethlehem. LAISH. Not Laish in the tribe of Dan. Anathoth. Now _'Anata._ Three miles north-east of Jerusalem....
SHRIEK LOUDLY, O DAUGHTER OF GALLIM; LISTEN, O LAISHAH. Neither of these places can be identified. _O poor Anathoth_ Translate, with a slight change of pointing, ANSWER HER, O ANATHOTH. Anathoth (_-...
HE IS COME TO AIATH— This is so minute a detail of the march of Sennacherib toward Jerusalem, the route of his army, and their several stations, that, though the description is a prophecy, Isaiah seem...
SHAME OF ASSYRIA TEXT: Isaiah 10:28-34 28 He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage; 29 they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging...
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages: Onward gradual march of Sennacherib's army toward Jerusalem, and the panic of the inhabitants, vividly pictur...
5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
CAUSE IT TO BE HEARD, etc.] RV 'hearken, O Laishah,' viz. to the noise of the approaching armies. O POOR ANATHOTH] RM 'Answer her, O Anathoth.'...
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...
Geba is in the north of Judah. The *Assyrians are now over the border, as they advance towards *Jerusalem. Anathoth was where Jeremiah was born (see Jeremiah 1:1). All the places in these verses are t...
צַהֲלִ֥י קֹולֵ֖ךְ בַּת ־גַּלִּ֑ים הַקְשִׁ֥יבִי לַ֖יְשָׁה...
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...
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...
I do not think it necessary to swell the page of my Commentary, by making particular observations on this passage. What might be said here, may be said, and hath been indeed said often, and one genera...
30._Neigh, _(177) _O daughter of Gallim. _By the word _neigh _he denotes the howling and cries which will be heard at a distance. It is very common, in the Hebrew language, to call cities _daughters_....
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...
LIFT UP THAT VOICE, O DAUGHTER OF GALLIM,.... In a mournful and lamentable manner, and yet with such a clear loud voice, as to be heard afar off: the word is sometimes used for making a joyful sound,...
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth. Ver. 30. _Lift up thy voice._] Heb., _Hinni, i.e., _ _claram vocem ede, eamque lugubrem,_ make a grievous ou...
_He is come to Aiath_ Here the prophet returns to his former discourse concerning Sennacherib's invasion of Judah, of whose march toward Jerusalem, the route of his army, and their several stations, h...
Lift up thy voice, crying in consternation over the impending calamity, O DAUGHTER OF GALLIM, the inhabitants of another village in the path of the Assyrian army; CAUSE IT TO BE HEARD UNTO LAISH, the...
THE REDEMPTION OF THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL...
LIFT UP THY VOICE: _ Heb._ cry shrill with thy voice...
20-34 By our afflictions we may learn not to make creatures our confidence. Those only can with comfort stay upon God, who return to him in truth, not in pretence and profession only. God will justly...
O DAUGHTER OF GALLIM: Jerusalem was the mother city, and lesser towns are commonly called _her daughters_, as hath been oft noted....
Isaiah 10:30 up H6670 (H8761) voice H6963 daughter H1323 of H1530 Gallim H1554 heard H7181 (H8685) poor...
ASSYRIA'S ADVANCE ON JERUSALEM (ISAIAH 10:28). We now have a very vivid representation of the onward march of Assyria towards Jerusalem as he approached Hezekiah's Jerusalem. Analysis. a He has com...
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...
_His burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder_ A PICTURESQUE REPRESENTATION OF THE INVASION OF JUDAH (Isaiah 10:28):--The description here given, when looked at aesthetically, is one of the...
_O My people, that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian_ FORBIDDEN FEAR It is against the mind and will of God that His people, whatever happens, should give way to that fear which has to...
_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 10:28 Isaiah imagines the terrifying approach of the Assyrian army through the villages toward Jerusalem. But the invader is stopped at the last moment and can only SHAKE HIS FIS...
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...
1 Kings 2:26; 1 Samuel 25:44; Jeremiah 1:1; Jeremiah 32:8; Joshua 21:18