Isaiah 10:21

The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God. THE REMNANT SHALL RETURN ... UNTO THE MIGHTY GOD () - the God who shall have evinced such might in destroying Israel's enemies. Since the Assyrians in Sennacherib's reign did not carry off Judah captive, the returning "remnant" cannot mainly refer to this time....

21._A remnant shall return. _This is a confirmation of the former statement. Yet in the words שאר ישוב, (_Shear Yashub_,) _a remnant shall return_, there appears to be an allusion to that passage in which Isaiah’s son was called _Shear-jashub_. (Isaiah 7:3.) In our observations on it, we stated that this peculiar name was given him in reference to the event, that it might be regarded as a pledge of the future deliverance concerning which his father prophesied. It was necessary that the Jews should be confirmed in various ways, that they might be convinced that the Lord would at length bring them back. This is also the design of what he immediately adds — _To the mighty God; _that is, to him whom the people, after having returned from their former apostasy, will acknowledge to be the guardian of their salvation. This attribut

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 bring this wasting away on a provoking people, but will graciously set bounds to it. It is against the mind and will of God, that his people, whatever happens, should give way to fear. God's anger against his people is but for a moment; and when that is turned from us, we need not fear the fury of man. The rod with which he corrected his people, shall not only be laid aside, but thrown into the fire. To encourage God's people, the prophet puts them in mind of what God had formerly done against the enemies of his church. God's people shall be delivered from the Assyrians. Some think it looks to the deliverance of the Jews out of their captivity; and further yet, to the redemption of believer...

Verse Isaiah 10:21. _THE REMNANT SHALT RETURN - UNTO THE MIGHTY GOD._] אל גבור _El gibbor_, the _mighty_ or _conquering God_; the Messiah, the same person mentioned in Isaiah 9:6 of the preceding chapter....

THE REMNANT ... - That is, those who shall be left after the invasion of Sennacherib. SHALL RETURN - Shall abandon their idolatrous rites and places of worship, and shall worship the true God. THE MIGHTY GOD - The God that had evinced his power in overcoming and destroying the armies of Sennacherib....

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 by the threat of a "day of desolation," when those who have refused to make God their Refuge will have no resource, but to go into captivity with the "prisoners," or to perish with the "slain." A foreign conquest, accompanied by slaughter, and the deportation of captives, is not obscurely intimated. ISAIAH 10:1 WOE UNTO THEM THAT DECREE UNRIGHTEOUS DECREES (comp. Isaiah 1:17

THE REMNANT SHALL RETURN,.... This is said in allusion to Shearjashub, the name of Isaiah's son, Isaiah 7:3 which signifies "the remnant shall return", and was imposed on him, to give assurance of it; meaning, either that they should return from the Babylonish captivity, as they did, or to God by repentance; or rather the sense is, they shall turn to the Lord, be converted to Christ, to the faith and obedience of him, as some of them were when he came, a few, not all, only a remnant, as it is explained in the next clause: [EVEN] THE REMNANT OF JACOB, TO THE MIGHTY GOD; the Messiah, so called, Isaiah 9:6. The Targum is, "the remnant which have not sinned, and are turned from sin; the remnant of the house of Jacob shall return to worship before the mighty God.''...

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 of his army announced (Isaiah 10:12)_ 3. _The punishment (Isaiah 10:16)_ 4. _The return of the remnant (Isaiah 10:20)_ 5. _The faithful remnant comforted (Isaiah 10:24)_ 6. The Assyrians march against Jerusalem (Isaiah 10:28

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 be fixed. Non-Isaianic material appears to be present in it. ISAIAH 10:5. Assyria is Yahweh's rod to smite any nation that has aroused His anger, but, inspired by lust of blood, plans to exterminate many peoples, and boastfully thinks to destroy Jerusalem with her divine nonentities, less powerful than those of cities she has seized. So, when she has served His purpose, He will punish her boastfulness in ascribing her conquests to her own wisdom and might. She has abolished the boundaries of subject peoples, merging them in her empire; plundered their treasures and abased their rulers, robbing the nations as a man takes the eggs from a nest abandoned by the panic-stricken birds, n

THE REMNANT SHALL RETURN. Hebrew. _Shear-jashub_. See Isaiah 7:3. So they did. Compare 2 Chronicles 30:1, esp. Isaiah 10:6....