Isaiah 10:9

Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is not Calno as Carchemish? - The meaning of this confident boasting is, that none of the cities and nations against which be had directed his ar...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

[Is] not Calno as (g) Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus? (g) Seeing that I have overcome one city as well as anothe...
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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

9. Is not Calno as Carchemish? Here he mentions by name certain cities, though others think that they were countries; but it is more probabl...
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...
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 deci...
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

The places named were all captured by the Assyrians under Tiglath-pileser, Shalmaneser, or Sargon; Calno (a Chaldean city, cp. Genesis 10:10 ) in...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Is not Calno as Carchemish? — The six names obviously pointed to more recent conquests in which Sargon and his predecessors had exulted. One after...
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...
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 in...
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...
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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

[Is] not Calno as Carchemish ?.... Jarchi's note is, "as the children of Carchemish are princes and rulers, so are the children of Calno;'' as if...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 10:9 [Is] not Calno as Carchemish? [is] not Hamath as Arpad? [is] not Samaria as Damascus? Ver. 9. Is not Calno as Carchemish? ] Here in...
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 sub...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Pride of the King of Assyria; Sennacherib's Pride Rebuked; Destruction of the King of Assyria....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Is not Calno as Carchemish? have not I conquered one place as well as another, the stronger as well as the weaker? Have I not from time to time add...
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...
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 C...
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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES Isaiah 10:7-15 . Howbeit He meaneth not so, &c. “Man appoints, but God disappoints,” “Man proposes, but God dispo...
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...
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...
The Biblical Illustrator

Howbeit he meaneth not so Man proposes, but God disposes “He meaneth not so. ” 1. The wise God often makes even the sinful passions and pro...
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 op...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Woe Against Assyria
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Is not Calno, a large city on the Tigris, as Carchemish, an important commercial center on an island in the Euphrates? Is not Ramath, an importan...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Chronicles 35:20 ; 2 Kings 16:9 ; 2 Kings 17:24 ; 2 Kings 17:5 ; 2 Kings 17:6 ; 2 Kings 18:10 ; 2 Kings 18:9 ; 2 Samuel 8:9 ; Amos 6:1 ;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Is not — Have not I conquered one place as well as another, the stronger as well as the weaker? Samaria — Or, shall not Samaria be as Damascus? Sha...

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Related Commentaries of Isaiah 10:9

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Isaiah 10:9