Isaiah 10:1
WRITE. ordain, or register; legalize iniquities. GRIEVOUSNESS. oppression. PRESCRIBED. written.... [ Continue Reading ]
WRITE. ordain, or register; legalize iniquities. GRIEVOUSNESS. oppression. PRESCRIBED. written.... [ Continue Reading ]
POOR. Hebrew. _'ani._ See note on Proverbs 6:11.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESOLATION. storm. LEAVE. secure, or put in safe keeping. Hebrew. _'azab,_. _Homonym_ with two meanings. See note on Exodus 23:5. GLORY. honour.... [ Continue Reading ]
BOW DOWN UNDER THE PRISONERS. captives will be enough to make you bow down. FALL UNDER THE SLAIN. mortally wounded ones [will be enough] to make you fall. FOR, &C. See note on Isaiah 9:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
O ASSYRIAN. Not woe to the Assyrian. That woe comes later (Compare Isaiah 17:12, and Isaiah 33:1), after the latest woes on Ephraim and Judah. This is. Divine summons. ASSYRIAN. The monuments tell us that this was Sargon, the father of Sennacherib.... [ Continue Reading ]
HYPOCRITICAL. impious, profane, godless,. or irreligious. Compare Isaiah 9:17 with Isaiah 33:14, the only other occurance in Isaiah.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE MEANETH NOT SO. will not mean. The blindness of the instrument emphasizes the truth of the prophecy. THINK SO. so intend.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAITH. he will say. ALTOGETHER. all of them.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS. According as. IDOLS. nothings.... [ Continue Reading ]
IDOLS. effigies.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE. And.... [ Continue Reading ]
PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOUND AS. NEST. Supply the Ellipsis thus: "found [means to reach] as. nest". peeped. See note on Isaiah 8:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 him that lifteth it up. NO WOOD: i.e. the user of it (who is flesh and blood, not wood).... [ Continue Reading ]
KINDLE. BURNING. be like. burning. Note the Figure of speech _Paronomasia_ (App-6). Hebrew. _yekad yekod kikod =_ kindle. kindling. kindling.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN ONE DAY. So it was (2 Kings 19:35),... [ Continue Reading ]
BODY. flesh. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Part), App-6, for the whole body.... [ Continue Reading ]
CHILD. lad. WRITE. reckon.... [ Continue Reading ]
THAT DAY. Passing on to the final fulfilment in the day of the LORD. THE HOUSE OF JACOB. See note on Isaiah 2:5. THE HOLY ONE OF ISRAEL. See note on Isaiah 1:4. IN TRUTH. Hebrew. _be'emeth._ Occurs three times in the "former" portion (here; Isaiah 16:5; Isaiah 38:3); and twice in the "latter" por... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REMNANT SHALL RETURN. Hebrew. _Shear-jashub_. See Isaiah 7:3. So they did. Compare 2 Chronicles 30:1, esp. Isaiah 10:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
THOUGH, &C. Quoted in Romans 9:27; Romans 9:28. AS THE SAND, &C. Figure of speech _Paraemia_. Reference to Pentateuch (Genesis 22:17; Genesis 32:12, &c). CONSUMPTION. full end, or finish. Hebrew. _killayon._ Reference to Pentateuch. Occurs only here, and Deuteronomy 28:65. App-92. WITH. in.... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSUMPTION. consummation. Hebrew. _kalfih,_ DETERMINED. decreed. ALL. Some codices, with five early printed editions, omit "all".... [ Continue Reading ]
SMITE THEE WITH. smite thee [indeed] with, &c. ROD. club.... [ Continue Reading ]
ANGER. anger [shall cease].... [ Continue Reading ]
ACCORDING TO. like. MIDIAN. Compare Isaiah 9:4, and Judges 7:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
SHALL BE DESTROYED. will rot. BECAUSE OF THE ANOINTING. before the face (at the sight) of the oil: i.e. in Gideon's lamps; and of the anointed One (Messiah).... [ Continue Reading ]
HE IS COME. This is. prophetic description of Sennacherib's advance against Judah. AIATH. Ai: now _et Tell,_ or _Khan Haiyan._ LAID UP. In anticipation of. speedy conquest of Jerusalem. CARRIAGES. baggage (Old English). Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for what is carried.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PASSAGE. the ravine: i.e. Wady _Suweinit._ Compare lSamaritan Pentateuch Isa 13:23. GEBA. Now _Jeb'a,_ near Michmash. Eamah. Now _er Ram,_ five miles north of Jerusalem. GIBEAH. Now _Tell el Ful,_ between Jerusalem and Emmaus, two and. half miles north of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
GALLIM. Not identified. Probably _Beitfala'_ near Bethlehem. LAISH. Not Laish in the tribe of Dan. Anathoth. Now _'Anata._ Three miles north-east of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADMENAH. Not identified.. town of Benjamin, near Jerusalem. See note on Isaiah 25:10. GEBIM. Not identified. North of Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOB.. city of the priests, in sight of Jerusalem, from whence Sennacherib shook his hand against the city. Nob only. half day's journey from Jerusalem.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOREST. Authorized Version, edition 1611, reads., "forests" (plural) These are Sennacherib's own figures of himself. See 2 Kings 19:23. Compare Isaiah 29:17; Ezekiel 31:3. Note the contrast in Isaiah 11:1.... [ Continue Reading ]