Isaiah 10:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; ”

Isaiah 10:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 t...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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 can...
Isaiah 10:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

As . According as. idols . nothings.
Isaiah 10:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Isaiah 10:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Isaiah 10:10 - 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 t...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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.
Isaiah 10:10 - 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...
Isaiah 10:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER IX ATHEISM OF FORCE AND ATHEISM OF FEAR ABOUT 721 B.C. Isaiah 10:5-34 IN chapter 28 Isaiah, speaking in the year 725 when Salmanassar IV was marching on Samaria, had explained to the...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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...
Isaiah 10:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire 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 s...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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 o...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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?...
Isaiah 10:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Pride of the King of Assyria; Sennacherib's Pride Rebuked; Destruction of the King of Assyria. B. C. 740....
Isaiah 10:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy 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 ki...
Isaiah 10:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

1). God First Calls On His Selected Instrument To Act But Then Rebukes Him For Overreacting ( Isaiah 10:5-15 ). In this vivid illustration Assyria is depicted as being the rod of God's anger. Assy...
Isaiah 10:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE ASSYRIAN INVASION OF JUDAH Isaiah 10:5-34 . 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 em...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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. Heb...
Isaiah 10:10 - 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 co...
Isaiah 10:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 10:1-23 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, a...
Isaiah 10:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe Against Assyria
Isaiah 10:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 32:12-16 ; 2 Chronicles 32:19 ; 2 Kings 18:33-35 ; 2 Kings 19:12 ; 2 Kings 19:13 ; 2 Kings 19:17-19 ; Isaiah 10:14
Isaiah 10:10 - 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...

Isaiah 10:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 10:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 10:10 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 10:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 10:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 10:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 10:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 10:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:10 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 10:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 10:10 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 10:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 10:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 10:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 10:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes