Isaiah 10

Isaiah 10:1

Woe] Here is a further charge, with a denunciation annexed to it against Israel. Though some would apply it to Judah.

Isaiah 10:3

What will ye do, &c?] As, Matth. XXIII. 33. Rom. II. 3. Job XXXI. 14, 23.

from far] From the Assyrian.

Isaiah 10:4

without me, &c.] What will ye do then? or to whom will ye flee for help? ye shall by no shift be able to escape, either to be taken prisoners, or be put to the sword.

Isaiah 10:5

O Assyrian,] Here might best beseeme this Chapter to begin. God purposing to use the Assyrian as the rod of his anger, against his people; doth here for the support and comfort of his faithful ones, insert a denunciation of destruction to befall him afterwards: and a gracious promise of deliverance of his people from him. O the Assyrians, see the Observations on 1 Chron. V. 26.

Isaiah 10:9

Is not Calno, &c.] Cities here mentioned, were near Euphrates.

Isaiah 10:11

As I have done unto Samaria] The successe of his predecessors, Tiglath-Pileser, and Shalman-Eser against Samaria, Sennacherib here takes to himself.

Isaiah 10:12

I will punish] Chap. XXXVII. 23, 29, 36, 37, 38.

Isaiah 10:14

egges that are left] The dam forsaking them for fear.

Isaiah 10:16

his fat ones leannesse] Among the chief and choise ones in his armies, upon his hoasts, God will send a consumption.

Isaiah 10:17

And the light of Israel shall be for a fire] A light to his people; a fire to his adversaries.

In one day] Chap. XXXVII. 36.

Isaiah 10:20

Stay upon him that smote them] The Assyrian.

Isaiah 10:22

a remnant] As but a remanant only of Sennacheribs armie.

thy people Israel] As God speaking to the Prophet; or rather thy people, O Israel, speaking so to Jacob of his posterity.

yet a remnant] And but a remnant only. Alluding again to Shearjashubs name. See Rom. IX. 27, 29. and XI. 5. That remnant being a type of Gods elect.

the consumption decreed] The reason, why but a remnant.

Isaiah 10:24

Therefore] Comforts the few faithful ones.

Isaiah 10:26

and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt] As God destroyed the Egyptians then, so he will the Assyrians now. Allusion is here had to Moses his lifting up his rod over the red-sea.

Isaiah 10:27

because of the anointing] Christ the anointed.

Isaiah 10:28

He is come] The Prophet here describes the Progresse of Sennacherib with his armie, through Benjamin, whereunto most of the townes here mentioned did appertaine, to and against Jerusalem; as if he plainly beheld it in a prophetical rapture and vision.

Isaiah 10:29

They are gone over the passage] Not of Jordan, but the straits between the hills near Michmash, 1 Sam. XIII. 23. and XIV. 1, 4, 5.

Isaiah 10:30

Gallim] 1 Sam. XXV. 44

Isaiah 10:33

top the bough] The chief and principal in Sennacheribs armie.

Isaiah 10:34

and Lebanon shall fall] The Assyrian King is called a Cedar of Lebanon, Ezek. XXXI. 3. And Carmel, though a mount of Israel, is in this very argument applied to him, and his forces, verse 18. These then may resemble other great States, Persons, and People, as well as those of the Jewes. And therefore by the tenure of the context, Lebanon here is no other then the Assyrian vast host.

by a mighty one] An Angel, chap. XXXVII. 36.