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Isaiah 10:17

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire

The light of Israel

A name of Jehovah, who was represented by the Shekinah glory.

(B. Blake, B. D.)

The collapse of the Assyrian enterprise

Isaiah’s genius supplies him with a splendid figure under which to depict the collapse of the Assyrian enterprise. The serried battalions of Assyria appear to his imagination as the trees of some huge forest, irresistible in their strength and countless in their number; but the Light of Israel kindles majestically into a flame; and at the end of a single day a child may count them. (Prof. S. R. Driver, D. D.)

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See also Isaiah 10:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 10:17. _AND IT SHALL BURN AND DEVOUR HIS THORNS_ - "And he shall burn and consume his thorn."] The briers and thorns are the common people; the glory of his forest are the nobles and tho...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL - That is, Yahweh. The word “light” here, אור _'ôr_, is used also to denote a “fire,” or that which causes light and heat; see Ezekiel 5:2; Isaiah 44:16;...

  • 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

    IN ONE DAY. So it was (2 Kings 19:35),...

  • 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...

  • 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

    And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL ... SHALL BURN ... HIS THORNS - the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL] i.e. Jehovah, who, while He gives light to His own people, at the same time consumes their enemies (Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:27; Isaiah 33:14). IN ONE DAY] Isaiah anticipates a sudd...

  • 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....

  • 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

    AND THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL SHALL BE FOR A FIRE. — The Divine glory, which is as a consuming fire (Isaiah 27:4) to the enemies of Israel, is to Israel itself as the very light of life. The “briars and tho...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֤ה אֹֽור ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְ אֵ֔שׁ וּ

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the light of Israel shall be for a (l) fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour (m) his thorns and his briers in one day; (l) Meaning that God is a light to comfort his pe...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Light. God. (Haydock) --- Thorns. Private soldiers. (Calmet)_...

  • 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

    17._And the light of Israel shall be for a fire. _There is an elegant allusion to that burning by which he threatened that he would consume the Assyrians. In _fire _there are two things, light and hea...

  • 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

    AND THE LIGHT OF ISRAEL SHALL BE FOR A FIRE,.... That is, the Lord, who is the light of his people; who enlightens them by his word and Spirit, and by his grace effectually calls them out of darkness...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day; Ver. 17. _And the light of Israel shall be for a fire._]...

  • 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

    WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Light of Israel, the Holy One of Israel Himself, SHALL BE FOR A FIRE AND HIS HOLY ONE FOR A FLAME; AND IT SHALL BURN AND DEVOUR HIS THORNS AND HIS BRIERS IN ONE DAY, the Assyrian nation being...

  • 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 LIGHT OF ISRAEL, that God who is and will be a comfortable light to his people, SHALL BE FOR A FIRE to the Assyrians who shall have heat without light, as it is in hell. HIS THORNS AND BRIERS; his...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 10:17 Light H216 Israel H3478 fire H784 One H6918 flame H3852 burn H1197 (H8804) devour H398 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

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

  • 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 Thessalonians 1:7; Hebrews 12:29; Isaiah 27:4; Isaiah 30:27;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The light — That God who is and will be a comfortable light to his people. A fire — To the Assyrians. Thorns — His vast army, which is no more able to resist God, than dry thorns and briars are to opp...

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