Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 10:9
Is not — Have not I conquered one place as well as another, the stronger as well as the weaker? Samaria — Or, shall not Samaria be as Damascus? Shall I not take that, as I have done this city?
Is not — Have not I conquered one place as well as another, the stronger as well as the weaker? Samaria — Or, shall not Samaria be as Damascus? Shall I not take that, as I have done this city?
IS NOT CALNO AS CARCHEMISH? - The meaning of this confident boasting is, that none of the cities and nations against which be had directed his arms, had been able to resist him. All had fallen before...
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...
The first speech of the Assyrian....
The six cities are enumerated in geographical order from north to south, the first of each pair being, however, nearer to Jerusalem than the second. (1) The site of Carchemish (Ass. _Gargamîsh_) was i...
HOWBEIT, HE MEANETH NOT SO, &C.— The prophet had taught the pious in what light they should consider the Assyrian, leading a large army with a splendid apparatus, and bringing under his power the peop...
SCOURGE OF GOD TEXT: Isaiah 10:5-11 5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wra...
For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? -Vauntings of the Assyrians. Illustrated by the self-laudatory inscriptions of Assyria deciphered by Hincks. Verse 8. (ARE) NOT MY PRINCES ALTOGE...
10:9 Calno (b-3) i.e. Calneh. see Genesis 10:10 ; Amos 6:2 ....
5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
The places named were all captured by the Assyrians under Tiglath-pileser, Shalmaneser, or Sargon; CALNO (a Chaldean city, cp. Genesis 10:10) in 738 b.c., CARCHEMISH (on the W. bank of the Euphrates)...
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 first four cities in this list were north-west of Damascus, which is the capital of Syria. The order of the places in this list shows the progress of the *Assyrian army from the north. The *Assyr...
IS NOT CALNO AS CARCHEMISH? — The six names obviously pointed to more recent conquests in which Sargon and his predecessors had exulted. One after another they had fallen. Could Judah hope to escape?...
הֲ לֹ֥א כְּ כַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנֹ֑ו אִם ־לֹ֤א
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...
[Is] not Calno as (g) Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus? (g) Seeing that I have overcome one city as well as another, so that none could resist, shall Jerusalem be ab...
_As. Literally, "altogether kings." (Haydock) --- Thus Nabuchodonosor kept the conquered princes for derision, Habacuc i. 10., and Judges i. 7. --- Arphad, Arad, or rather Raphanæ, Jeremias xlix. 23....
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...
9._Is not Calno as Carchemish? _Here he mentions by name certain cities, though others think that they were countries; but it is more probable that they were cities, or some fortified places. “Shall i...
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...
[IS] NOT CALNO AS CARCHEMISH?.... Jarchi's note is, "as the children of Carchemish are princes and rulers, so are the children of Calno;'' as if this was giving an instance of the grandeur of his su...
Isaiah 10:9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus? Ver. 9. _Is not Calno as Carchemish?_] Here in a vaunt he reckoneth up six royal cities vanquished by...
_For he saith, Are not my princes_, &c. Are they not equal for power, and wealth, and glory, to the kings of other nations, though they be my subjects and servants? _Is not Calno as Carchemish?_ Have...
Is not Calno, a large city on the Tigris, AS CARCHEMISH, an important commercial center on an island in the Euphrates? IS NOT RAMATH, an important city and formerly a capital on the Orontes, AS ARPAD,...
WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...
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...
IS NOT CALNO AS CARCHEMISH? have not I conquered one place as well as another, the stronger as well as the weaker? Have I not from time to time added new conquests to the old? _Calno_ seems to be the...
Isaiah 10:9 Calno H3641 Carchemish H3751 Hamath H2574 Arpad H774 Samaria H8111 Damascus H1834 Calno -...
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...
_Howbeit he meaneth not so_ MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES “He meaneth not so. ” 1. The wise God often makes even the sinful passions and projects of men subservient to His own great and holy purp...
_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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:8 IS NOT CALNO LIKE CARCHEMISH? In each pair of cities listed, the first is geographically nearer to God’s people than the second. The speaker is saying that, since he has con...
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...
2 Chronicles 35:20; 2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:5;...