Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Isaiah 30:31
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [who] smote with a (c) rod.
(c) God's plague.
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [who] smote with a (c) rod.
(c) God's plague.
Verse Isaiah 30:31. WHICH _SMOTE WITH A ROD _- "He that was ready to smite with his staff"] אשור "Post _ashshur_, forte excidit אשר _asher_." - SECKER. After אשור _ashshur_, probably אשר _asher_, "whi...
FOR THROUGH THE VOICE OF THE - Lord By the command of the Lord; that is, his voice going forth in the manner specified in Isaiah 30:30. WHICH SMOTE WITH A ROD - Who was accustomed to smite as with a r...
CHAPTER 30 The Fourth Woe Against Alliance With Egypt 1. _The alliance and its failure (Isaiah 30:1)_ 2. _The written table against the rebellious people (Isaiah 30:8)_ 3. Jehovah's word of encourage...
If this is the work of Isaiah, it describes the overthrow of Assyria. The description is very vigorous, and some feel that the loud colours are dashed on too violently to make Isaiah's authorship prob...
Assyria is here named for the first time as the object of the judgment. The _voice_of Jehovah is the thunder, as in Isaiah 30:30. For _beaten down_render PANIC-STRICKEN. which _smote with a rod_ (cf....
Songs of rejoicing arise within the city, while the Assyrians are slaughtered under its walls....
AND THE LORD SHALL CAUSE, &C.— The prophet resumes the thread of his narration from Isaiah 30:28 and having hinted, not obscurely, in the preceding verse, the time of the execution of the judgment, he...
2. SALVATION TEXT: Isaiah 30:15-33 15 For thus said the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye...
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. A ROD. The A...
30:31 [him] (e-16) Or 'who smote.'...
1-7. The Egyptian alliance is profitless. 8-11. The perversity of Judah, 12-17. and its disastrous consequences. 18-26. There is a glorious prospect for the repentant people. 27-33 But first Jehov...
BEATEN DOWN] RV 'broken in pieces.' _Which_ SMOTE] see Isaiah 10:24....
God has used the *Assyrians to punish his people. But now his people have returned to him. God has therefore achieved his purpose. Now God can punish the *Assyrians for their proud attitudes and for t...
For the sudden and extraordinary end of the huge *Assyrian army, see Isaiah 37:33-36. WOE ~ a very sad cry because there is much pain to come. LORD ~ God’s name in the Bible. In the original language...
SHALL THE ASSYRIAN BE BEATEN DOWN, WHICH SMOTE WITH A ROD. — Better, _and He_ (Jehovah) _shall smite with the rod._ Asshur appears as the foremost and most dreaded enemy of Judah. The prediction point...
כִּֽי ־מִ קֹּ֥ול יְהוָ֖ה יֵחַ֣ת אַשּׁ֑וּר בַּ
BOOK 3 ORATIONS ON THE EGYPTIAN INTRIGUES AND ORACLES ON FOREIGN NATIONS 705-702 B.C. Isaiah: 29 About 703 30 A little later 31 A little later 32:1-8 Later 32:9-20 Date uncertain ------------...
THE GOODNESS OF GOD'S SEVERITY Isaiah 30:18-33 Jerusalem refused God's invitation to return to Him and rest; they preferred to trust in Egyptian cavalry. Their Almighty Friend knew that this would en...
This chapter contains two distinct messages. In the first, the prophet denounces an alliance with Egypt (verses Isa 30:1-26), and in the second foretells the destruction of Assyria (verses Isa 30:27-3...
_Rod. Sennacherib is terrified, who a few days before insulted the living God._...
I hope that the Reader is, by this time, so well acquainted with scripture, as to need not the remark how, all along, the Lord is forever blending, judgment with mercy. Here we have, as in many other...
31._Surely by the voice of Jehovah. _He added this for two reasons; first, to shew why the Assyrian must be bruised; for, since he was cruel and savage to others, it is proper that “the same measure...
The effect of this unbelief is manifested in chapter 30. The people put their trust in man, according to the wisdom of man. They look to Egypt for help, but in vain. This contempt of Jehovah, accompan...
FOR THROUGH THE VOICE OF THE LORD SHALL THE ASSYRIAN BE BEATEN DOWN,.... As anything is by a storm of thunder, lightning, hail, and rain: or "fear", or be "affrighted", as the Vulgate Latin and Arabic...
For through the voice of the LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, [which] smote with a rod. Ver. 31. _Which smote with a rod._] Isaiah 10:5. Now he is broken in pieces with God's iron rod, Psa 2:9...
Isa. 30:27, to the end, and 31:9. Mr. Bedford supposes (Scripture Chronology, p. 671.) that what is here said respects the time when Rabshakeh came against Jerusalem, and God did so wonderfully appear...
_Ye shall have a song_, &c. You shall have occasion of great joy, and of singing songs of praise for your stupendous deliverance from that formidable enemy; _as in the night_, &c. He mentions the nigh...
For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod, this destruction of the world-power being a type of the punishment which strikes all the enemies of the Chu...
Trust in Jehovah Rewarded; Overthrow of the Lord's Enemies...
27-33 God curbs and restrains from doing mischief. With a word he guides his people into the right way, but with a bridle he turns his enemies upon their own ruin. Here, in threatening the ruin of Se...
THE VOICE OF THE LORD; that voice mentioned in the last verse. WHICH SMOTE WITH A ROD; which was the rod wherewith God smote his and other people, ISAIAH 10:5,6. He who used to smite others shall now...
Isaiah 30:31 voice H6963 LORD H3068 Assyria H804 down H2865 (H8735) strikes H5221 (H8686) rod H7626...
FOR GOD'S FINAL PURPOSE IS TO BLESS HIS TRUE PEOPLE WHO WILL REMAIN AFTER HIS CHASTISEMENT AND PURIFICATION, AND TO DEFEAT THEIR ENEMIES HIMSELF (ISAIAH 30:19). While the future holds adversity for th...
THE DESTRUCTION OF ASSYRIA (ISAIAH 30:27). However, although there will be no help for them in Egypt, they will be delivered, for God Himself will act to deliver them. For the remnant who come throug...
CONTENTS: Warnings against alliance with Egypt against Sennacherib and exhortation to turn to the Lord for help. CHARACTERS: God, Pharoah. CONCLUSION: When sin has brought men into distress, it is th...
Isaiah 30:1. _Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me._ It was a law among all ancient nations to undertake nothing of importance without consulting the gods....
THE EARTHLY SONG AND THE HEAVENLY VOICE Isaiah 30:29. _Ye shall have a song … and the Lord shall cause His glorious voice to be heard, &c._ The fulfilment of this prophecy is recorded in Isaiah 37:36...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 30:1 THE ALLIANCE WITH EGYPT OPENLY REBUKED. In the preceding chapter (Isaiah 30:15) the design of the Jewish rulers to seek the alliance of Egypt was covertly
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not from me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to their sin (Isaiah 30:1): Now these pe...
Isaiah 10:15; Isaiah 10:24; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 30:30; Isaiah 37:32