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Isaiah 10:10-11

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 10:10 The Assyrian sees no end to his victories. Compare the similar boasting by a later Assyrian, Isaiah 36:13; Isaiah 37:8.

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See also Isaiah 10:10-11 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The argument in these two verses is this: ‘The nations which I have subdued were professedly under the protection of idol gods. Yet those idols were not able to defend them - though stronger than the...

  • 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

    AS. According as. IDOLS. nothings....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The first speech of the Assyrian....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the kingdoms of the idols_ The expression "nonentities" (see on ch. Isaiah 2:8) is surprising in the mouth of the Assyrian; but not inappropriate, since even from his point of view the overthrow of s...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • 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

    AS MY HAND HATH FOUND THE KINGDOMS OF THE IDOLS. — The word “idols” seems hardly appropriate as a word of scorn in the mouth of an idolatrous king; but Isaiah probably puts into his lips the words whi...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כַּ אֲשֶׁר֙ מָצְאָ֣ה יָדִ֔י לְ מַמְלְכֹ֖ת הָ

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Idols. He looks upon the true God as no better than any idols, (4 Kings xviii. 32.) and falsely supposes that the latter were adored in Jerusalem. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols. _The Assyrian now breaks out into far more outrageous language; for not only does he insult men, but he insults God himself, and even the very gods...

  • 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

    AS MY HAND HATH FOUND THE KINGDOMS OF THE IDOLS,.... Which worship idols, as the Targum paraphrases it. He speaks of them as being very easily taken by him; he had no trouble in subduing them; no soon...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;_ Ver. 10. _As my hand hath found._] _Nota fastum tyranni,_ Note the arrogance of...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    WOE AGAINST ASSYRIA...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, conquering those upon whom the people of Judah looked down as idol-worshipers, AND WHOSE GRAVEN IMAGES DID EXCEL THEM OF JERUSALEM AND OF SAMARIA, bein...

  • 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

    HATH FOUND, i.e. hath taken, as this word is used, PROVERBS 1:13, and oft elsewhere, the antecedent being put for the consequent, because what men find they commonly take to themselves. THE KINGDOMS O...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 10:10 hand H3027 found H4672 (H8804) kingdoms H4467 idols H457 images H6456 Jerusalem H3389 Samaria H8111...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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 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 Chronicles 32:12; 2 Chronicles 32:19; 2 Kings 18:33; 2 Kings 19:12;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The kingdoms — Which worshipped their own idols, and vainly imagined that they could protect them from my power. He calls the gods of the nations, not excepting Jerusalem, idols, by way of contempt, b...

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