Isaiah 10:30

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 pictured before the eyes. Verse 28 COME TO come upon as a sudden invader (Genesis 34:27) Verse 28. COME TO - come upon as a sudden invader (Genesis 34:27). HE IS COME TO AIATH - same as Ai (Joshua 7:2; Nehemiah 7:32). In the north of Benjamin: so the other towns also; all on the line of march to Jerusalem. MICHMASH - nine m...

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_. He says that the howling will be so great that it will be heard even by the neighboring cities; for at _Laish _will be heard the groanings which will be uttered in _Anathoth _...

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 10:30. _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 the name of the place, and with a peculiar propriety, if it had its name frown its remarkable echo. " ענתות _anathoth, responsiones:_ _eadem ratio nominis, quae in_ בית ענת beith anath, locus echus; nam _hodienum ejus rudera ostenduntur in valle, scil. in medio montium,_ _ut referent Robertus in Itiner_. p. 70, _et Monconnysius_, p. 301." _Simonis Onomasticon Vet. Test_. - L. _Anathoth_ - Answers, replies; for the same reason that Bethany, בית ענת _beith anath_, had its name, _the house of echo_; the remains of which are still shown in the valley, i.e., among the mountains....

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 10:28, and the consternation at Ramah and Gibeah; he now changes the mode of description, and calls on Gallim to lift up her voice of alarm at the approach of the army, so that it might reverberate among the hills, and be heard by neighboring towns. DAUGHTER - A term often applied to a beautiful city or town; see the note at Isaiah 1:8. GALLIM - This was a city of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem. It is mentioned only in this place and in...

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

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, and of the neighing of horses. The inhabitants of Gallim are meant by its daughter; of this place was Phalti, who married Michal, Saul's daughter; very probably it was in the tribe of Benjamin. Jerom f makes mention of Accaron, a village, which was called Gallim. CAUSE IT TO BE HEARD UNTO LAISH; if this was the place the Danites took, and called it Dan, it was on the northern border of Judea, in the furthermost part of the land; hence the phrase, from Dan to Beersheba; it was near to Caesarea or Paneas, from whence the river Jordan took its rise; and was a great way off, either of Gallim or Anathoth, for the voice of them to be heard. O POOR ANATHOTH! this was a city in the tribe of Benjam...

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

GALLIM. Not identified. Probably _Beitfala'_ near Bethlehem. LAISH. Not Laish in the tribe of Dan. Anathoth. Now _'Anata._ Three miles north-east of Jerusalem....