Isaiah 10:34 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

With iron; or, as with iron, as the trees of the forest are cut down by instruments of iron. And Lebanon; or, his Lebanon, the pronoun being oft understood in the Hebrew text; the Assyrian army, which being before compared to a forest or wood, and being called his Carmel in the Hebrew text, Isaiah 10:18, may very fitly, upon the same ground, be called his Lebanon here; especially considering that the king of Assyria is called a cedar of Lebanon, Ezekiel 31:3. By a mighty one; by a mighty angel, Isaiah 37:36.

Isaiah 10:34

34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron, and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one.