Isaiah 28:21

Shall rise up, to act and fight against you; as he is said to sit still, when he doth forbear to act. Mount Perazim where he fought against the Philistines, 2 Samuel 5:20. The valley of Gibeon; where he fought against the Canaanites, Joshua 10:10, &c, and afterwards against the Philistines, 1 Chronicles 14:16. His strange work; the execution of his judgment against Israel, which he calleth his strange work, to intimate either,

1. That God would punish them not with ordinary punishments, but in a most dreadful, and singular, and extraordinary manner; such a judgment being called a marvellous work, Isaiah 29:14, although the Hebrew word there used be not the same with this, but of a much differing signification. Or rather,

2. That this work of bringing total and irrecoverable destruction upon Israel was contrary to the benignity of his own nature, and to the usual way of dealing with his people, whom he used and delighted to protect, and spare, and bless; and whom, even when he is angry with them, and punisheth them, he handleth more gently than he doth other persons, in judgment remembering mercy to them, as was noted, Isaiah 27:7,8: see also Isaiah 26:11.