Isaiah 10:19 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few,f that a child may write them. ”

Isaiah 10:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the rest of the trees ... - Keeping up still the image of a large and once dense forest, to which he had likened the Assyrian army. ‘The rest’ here means that which shall be left after the th...
Isaiah 10:19 - 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 10:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

child . lad. write . reckon.
Isaiah 10:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

19. And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be a number. (167) When he adds that the remnant of them will be a number, he employs a Hebrew idiom to express that they will be fe...
Isaiah 10:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Isaiah 10:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Therefore shall the Lord, &c.— The punishment decreed for the Assyrian, and mentioned in the 12th verse, is here more fully set forth. This passage is easy to be understood, if the prophesy be...
Isaiah 10:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. The rest - those who shall survive the destruction of the host. Of the trees of his forest - same image...
Isaiah 10:19 - 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 10:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few. — To number the host of an army, to count killed and wounded after a battle, was commonly the work of the royal scribe, who appears so often as...
Isaiah 10:19 - 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 10:19 - 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 10:19 - 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 10:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

In these verses, if I mistake not, the Lord is pointing to the cause of his mercy to his people, in delivering them from Assyria. It is not for their righteousness, for the parallel scripture saith,...
Isaiah 10:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few ,.... Which were left unconsumed, that escaped this destruction, those of the Assyrian army that fled with Sennacherib their king; which, the Rab...
Isaiah 10:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them. Ver. 19. And the rest of the trees … shall be few.] Heb., A number; methe mispar, a poor few, and inconsiderab...
Isaiah 10:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts The sovereign Lord and General of his and of all other armies; send among his fat ones leanness Strip him, and all his great princes and commanders, of...
Isaiah 10:19 - 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 10:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The rest of the trees of his forest; the remainders of that mighty host. That a child may write them; that they may be easily numbered by the meanest accountant. A child may be their muster-maste...
Isaiah 10:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter Isaiah 10:5-34 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 desc...
Isaiah 10:19 - 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 10:19 - 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 10:19 - 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 10:19 - 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 10:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe Against Assyria
Isaiah 10:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 37:36
Isaiah 10:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

The rest — The remainder of that mighty host.

Isaiah 10:19 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 10:19 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 10:19 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 10:19 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 10:19 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 10:19 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 10:19 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 10:19 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 10:19 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Isaiah 10:19 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 10:19 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 10:19 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 10:19 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 10:19 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 10:19 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes