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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...
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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...
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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...
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The first speech of the Assyrian....
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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...
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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...
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SCOURGE OF GOD
TEXT: Isaiah 10:5-11
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Ho Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, the staff in whose hand is mine
indignation!
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I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my
wra...
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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...
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10:9 Calno (b-3) i.e. Calneh. see Genesis 10:10 ; Amos 6:2 ....
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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)...
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5. AND THE STAFF IN THEIR HAND] RV 'the staff in whose hand': Jehovah
speaks, declaring the Assyrian the minister of His wrath....
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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?...
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הֲ לֹ֥א כְּ כַרְכְּמִ֖ישׁ כַּלְנֹ֑ו
אִם ־לֹ֤א
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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_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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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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...
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_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...
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WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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Isaiah 10:9 Calno H3641 Carchemish H3751 Hamath H2574 Arpad H774
Samaria H8111 Damascus H1834
Calno -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Howbeit he meaneth not so_
MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES
“He meaneth not so.
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1. The wise God often makes even the sinful passions and projects of
men subservient to His own great and holy purp...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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2 Chronicles 35:20; 2 Kings 16:9; 2 Kings 17:24; 2 Kings 17:5;...
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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?...