Isaiah 10:1-4
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:1 Corrupt WEALTH leads to helplessness. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:1 Corrupt WEALTH leads to helplessness. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:3 RUIN THAT WILL COME FROM AFAR. The Assyrian invasion. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:4 FALL AMONG THE SLAIN. In his writings, the Assyrian king Shalmaneser III boasted of stacking the corpses of his defeated enemies and heaping up piles of their skulls (see Nahum 3:3). Captivity or death is the only possible outcome. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsB... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:6 A GODLESS NATION. Unbelieving Israel (Isaiah 9:17). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:7 BUT HE DOES NOT SO INTEND. Events unfold through human intentions but also, more deeply, through God’s intention (see Luke 22:22; Acts 4:27). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:8 IS NOT CALNO LIKE CARCHEMISH? In each pair of cities listed, the first is geographically nearer to God’s people than the second. The speaker is saying that, since he has conquered the more distant of each pair of cities, surely he can conquer the nearer one as well. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:10 The Assyrian sees no end to his victories. Compare the similar boasting by a later Assyrian, Isaiah 36:13; Isaiah 37:8. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:16 The mighty Assyrian army is reduced nearly to nothing. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:20 THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL returns to God. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:22 DESTRUCTION... OVERFLOWING WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS. God’s acts of judgment are entirely just and fair. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:24 Fearful Zion is made confident in God’s promises. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
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 FIST at the holy city. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=imag... [ Continue Reading ]
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:33 The destruction of the Assyrians for their arrogance is described as the felling of a forest. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]