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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:26

According to the slaughter of Midian. — The historical associations of Isaiah 9:4 are still in the prophet’s mind. In the history of Judges (Judges 7:25), Oreb and Zeeb are the names at once of the Midianite chiefs and of the places where they were slain.

As his rod was upon the sea. — The italics spoil the sense. Better, His rod upon the sea ... He shall lift it up after the manner of Egypt. The ambiguous formula which had been taken as primarily of evil boding in Isaiah 10:24, is repeated as an augury of good. There was another rod prominent in that Egyptian history besides that of the oppressor, and that rod had been wielded by the deliverer.

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See also Isaiah 10:26 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 10:26. _AND AS HIS ROD WAS UPON THE SEA _- "And like his rod which he lifted up over the sea"] The Jewish interpreters suppose here an ellipsis of כ _ke_, the particle of similitude, bef...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THE LORD OF HOSTS SHALL STIR UP - Or shall raise up that which shall rove as a scourge to him. A SCOURGE FOR HIM - That is, that which shall punish him. The scourge, or rod, is used to denote sev...

  • 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

    ACCORDING TO. like. MIDIAN. Compare Isaiah 9:4, and Judges 7:25....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE THUS SAITH THE LORD— We have here the fourth part of the enarration, in which the above prophecy is applied to the consolation of the people of God, and wherein is _first_ the proposition, I...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    SALVATION OF THE REMNANT TEXT: Isaiah 10:20-27 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and they that are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again lean upon h...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. T...

  • 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....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SCOURGE FOR HIM] i.e. for the Assyrian. ACCORDING TO] RV 'as in.' The slaughter of Midian is also referred to as a typical deliverance in Isaiah 9:4. HIS ROD] i.e. Jehovah's, contrasted with the Assyr...

  • 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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    • Gideon and his little band of men attacked the great *Midianite army. They killed the *Midianite commander, Oreb. Afterwards, the place where he died was called the Rock of Oreb (see Judges 7:24-25)...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ עֹורֵ֨ר עָלָ֜יו יְהוָ֤ה צְבָאֹות֙ שֹׁ֔וט כ

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And the LORD of hosts shall raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of (t) Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the (u) sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Oreb. Judges vii. 25. --- And his. Moses thus let loose the waters of the Red Sea on the Egyptians, by stretching forth his rod. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I do not think it necessary to swell the page of my Commentary, by making particular observations on this passage. What might be said here, may be said, and hath been indeed said often, and one genera...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    26._And the LORD of hosts will stir up a scourge for him. _Here Isaiah makes use of the word _scourge_, and not _rod_, meaning that the Lord will treat the enemies much more harshly and severely than...

  • 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

    AND THE LORD OF HOSTS SHALL STIR UP A SCOURGE FOR HIM,.... The Assyrian monarch; this scourge stirred up or awakened by the Lord, with which that monarch was severely scourged, is no other than the an...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and [as] his rod [was] upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt....

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Isa. 10:26. "And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him, according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock Oreb." The prophet is speaking here of the destruction of Sennacherib's army, and o...

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

    _For yet a very little while_, &c. Here the prophet proceeds to assign the reasons why the Lord would not have his people to fear the Assyrians, because, in a short time, he would take vengeance upon...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him, brandishing it over Assyria, ACCORDING TO THE SLAUGHTER OF MIDIAN AT THE ROCK OF OREB, when Gideon's forces annihilated the army of the Midianite...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE REDEMPTION OF THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    20-34 By our afflictions we may learn not to make creatures our confidence. Those only can with comfort stay upon God, who return to him in truth, not in pretence and profession only. God will justly...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SHALL STIR UP A SCOURGE; shall send a destroying angel, ISAIAH 37:36. ACCORDING TO THE SLAUGHTER OF MIDIAN; whom God slew suddenly, and unexpectedly, and in the night, as he did the Assyrians. AT THE...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 10:26 LORD H3068 hosts H6635 up H5782 (H8790) scourge H7752 slaughter H4347 Midian H4080 rock H6697 Oreb...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    AND WHILE ZION WILL ALSO COME UNDER ASSYRIA'S ROD THEY TOO WILL BE FINALLY DELIVERED (ISAIAH 10:24). Zion too will come under Assyria's rod. But they are not to be dismayed. For eventually God will r...

  • 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

    _According to the slaughter of Midian_ ASSYRIA AND MIDIAN 1. As the hand of God was seen in the slaughter of the Midianites, so it was in the slaughter of the Assyrians. 2. As the Midianites were...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _O My people, that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian_ FORBIDDEN FEAR It is against the mind and will of God that His people, whatever happens, should give way to that fear which has to...

  • 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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 10:24 Fearful Zion is made confident in God’s promises. ⇐ ⇔...

  • 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 Kings 19:35; Exodus 14:25; Habakkuk 3:7; Isaiah 10:16; Isaiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Stir up — Shall send a destroying angel. Midian — Whom God slew suddenly and unexpectedly, in the night. Oreb — Upon which one of their chief princes was slain, and nigh unto which the Midianites were...

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