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Isaiah 10:16-19

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 10:16 The mighty Assyrian army is reduced nearly to nothing.

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See also Isaiah 10:16-19 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 10:16. _THE LORD_ - "JEHOVAH."] For אדני _Adonai, fifty-two_ MSS., eleven editions, and two of my own, ancient, read יהוה, _Yehovah_, as in other cases. _AND UNDER HIS GLORY_] That is,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE SHALL THE LORD - Hebrew, אדון _'ādôn_. THE LORD OF HOSTS - In the present Hebrew text, the original word is also אדני _'ădonāy_, but fifty-two manuscripts and six editions read Jehovah....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    KINDLE. BURNING. be like. burning. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _yekad yekod kikod =_ kindle. kindling. kindling....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord, the Lord of hosts_ as in ch. Isaiah 1:24. The ordinary printed editions have the unparalleled expression _Adônâi Tsěbâôth_, for which Baer rightly restores _Yahveh Tsěbâôth_. _send among hi...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 874 PRIDE AND DOWNFALL OF THE ASSYRIAN MONARCH Isaiah 10:12. It shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fru...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. THEREFORE SHALL THE LORD ... SEND AMONG HIS...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    10:16 Jehovah (d-5) Others read 'the Lord.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The two figures of famine and fire are used to express the destruction of the Assyrian host....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This probably refers to the sudden fate of the *Assyrian army. In one night, 185 000 soldiers died (see Isaiah 37:36-37). A FEW PEOPLE WILL RETURN V20 On that day the few people that remain in Isra...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEREFORE SHALL THE LORD... SEND AMONG HIS FAT ONES LEANNESS. — The overthrow of the Assyrian is painted in the two-fold imagery of famine and of fire. (Isaiah 17:4; comp. Pharaoh’s vision in Genesis...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָ֠כֵן יְשַׁלַּ֨ח הָ אָדֹ֜ון יְהוָ֧ה צְבָאֹ֛ות...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fire. The Jews assert, that 185,000 perished by an inward burning, so that only ten men were left, ver. 19. (St. Jerome)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    16._Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness. _He proceeds with the former doctrine, declaring that the Lord will show to the Assyrian how undeservedly he exalts h...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE SHALL THE LORD, THE LORD OF HOSTS,.... Because of the pride, and arrogance, and vain boasting of the Assyrian monarch, which was resented by the Lord, he is threatened with what follows; and...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire. Ver. 16. Therefore shall the Lord … send among...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore shall the Lord, the All-powerful, THE LORD OF HOSTS, who commands the untold legions of heaven, SEND AMONG HIS FAT ONES LEANNESS, consuming the mighty ones of Assyria, AND UNDER HIS GLORY HE...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THE LORD OF HOSTS; the sovereign Lord and General of thine and all other armies. SEND AMONG HIS FAT ONES LEANNESS; strip him, and all his great princes and commanders, of all their wealth, and might,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 10:16 Lord H113 Lord H136 (H8676) H3068 hosts H6635 send H7971 (H8762) leanness H7332 ones...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 32:21; Acts 12:23; Isaiah 14:24; Isaiah 29:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord — The sovereign Lord of thine and all other armies, shall strip him and all his princes, of their wealth, and might, and glory; and destroy his numerous army, as the fire doth those combustib...

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