Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 10:15
The ax — How absurd is it, for thee, who art but an instrument in God's hand, to blaspheme thy Lord and master, who has as great power over thee, as a man hath over the ax wherewith he heweth?
The ax — How absurd is it, for thee, who art but an instrument in God's hand, to blaspheme thy Lord and master, who has as great power over thee, as a man hath over the ax wherewith he heweth?
Verse Isaiah 10:15. _NO WOOD_ - "Its master."] I have here given the meaning, without attempting to keep to the expression of the original, לא עץ _lo ets_, "the no-wood;" that which is not wood like...
SHALL THE AXE ... - In this verse God reproves the pride and arrogance of the Assyrian monarch. He does it by reminding him that he was the mere instrument in his hand, to accomplish his purposes; and...
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...
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...
BOAST ITSELF. Hebrew. _pa'ar._ Not therefore peculiar to the "latter" portion of Isaiah (Isaiah 44:23, &c), as alleged. SHAKE ITSELF AGAINST. brandish. LIFT UP ITSELF, AS IF IT WERE NO WOOD. raise h...
To a believer in the divine government of the world the self-exaltation of Assyria is as ludicrous as if a tool were to vaunt itself against the man who uses it. The two last clauses are exclamations....
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...
SHALL THE AXE BOAST ITSELF, &C.— The prophet here refutes the Assyrian, in a grave discourse, adapted to humble his pride. He teaches what he had before declared, that in all his counsels, motions, wo...
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...
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the...
10:15 wood! (c-44) Or 'the staff lift up [itself] as if it were not wood.'...
5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
The prophet now speaks in indignant retort to the vainglorious boasting of the Assyrian; how can he, being but an instrument of providence, exalt himself against Jehovah? AS IF THE ROD, etc.] RV 'as...
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...
The king of Assyria has made a great mistake. Military arms may be the most modern and efficient. But unless the soldiers are able to use them, the arms have no value whatever....
SHALL THE AX BOAST ITSELF...? — The words spoken by the prophet as the mouthpiece of Jehovah remind us of the way in which Christian writers of the fifth century spoke of Attila as “the scourge of God...
הֲ יִתְפָּאֵר֙ הַ גַּרְזֶ֔ן עַ֖ל הַ חֹצֵ֣ב
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...
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...
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...
Shall the (k) axe boast itself against him that heweth with it? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that moveth it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it, [or] as if...
_Axe. The Assyrian has no right to boast. What can man do without God's assistance? (Calmet) --- Gratiæ tuæ deputo et quæcumque non feci mala. (St. Augustine, Confessions ii. 7.) --- Sennacherib perse...
I pray the Reader to remark with me, how the Lord taketh to himself the whole of the destruction of Judah. If the Assyrian destroy the kingdom, it is because the Lord hath commissioned and appointed i...
_THE WORKER AND HIS TOOLS_ ‘Shall the axe boast itself against him that beweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them t...
15._Shall the axe boast? _He now ridicules more strongly the mad effrontery of the Assyrians in imagining that he could create mountains of gold; for he tells us that the case is the same as if _an ax...
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...
SHALL THE AXE BOAST ITSELF AGAINST HIM THAT HEWETH THEREWITH?.... Hitherto are the words of the Assyrian monarch; and here begin the words of the prophet, rebuking him for his pride, and deriding his...
Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? [or] shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake [itself] against them that lift it up, [or] as i...
_Shall the axe boast itself_, &c. How absurd is it for thee, who art but an instrument in God's hand, to blaspheme thy Lord and Master, who has as great power over thee as a man hath over the axe wher...
Shall the ax boast itself against him that heweth therewith? Or shall the saw magnify Itself against him that shaketh it, drawing it to and fro in severing the wood? It is just as foolish for a tool t...
WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...
AS IF THE ROD SHOULD SHAKE ITSELF AGAINST THEM: Or, as if a rod should shake them that lift it up ITSELF, AS IF IT WERE NO WOOD: Or, that which is not wood...
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...
SHALL THE AXE BOAST ITSELF AGAINST HIM THAT HEWETH THEREWITH? How absurd and unreasonable a thing is it for thee, who art but an instrument in God's hand, and canst do nothing without his leave and he...
Isaiah 10:15 ax H1631 boast H6286 (H8691) chops H2672 (H8802) saw H4883 exalt H1431 (H8691) saws...
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...
1). GOD FIRST CALLS ON HIS SELECTED INSTRUMENT TO ACT BUT THEN REBUKES HIM FOR OVERREACTING (ISAIAH 10:5). In this vivid illustration Assyria is depicted as being the rod of God's anger. Assyria migh...
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...
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...
_Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith?_ THE DIVINE SUPREMACY All the various orders of creatures, natural and supernatural, animate and inanimate, are under the control of the...
_O Assyrian_ “O ASSYRIAN” “Ho Asshur,” the name both of the people and its national god. (_Prof. J. Skinner, D. D._) THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD POWER The leading idea of the passage is the contrast...
MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES Isaiah 10:7. _Howbeit He meaneth not so, &c._ “Man appoints, but God disappoints,” “Man proposes, but God disposes,” are proverbs which sum up a good deal of human experien...
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...
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...
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...
Ezekiel 28:9; Isaiah 10:5; Jeremiah 51:20; Psalms 17:13; Psalms 17:1