Isaiah 10:11

Brenton's Septuagint

For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
I defeated Samaria and her gods. I will also defeat Jerusalem and the idols her people have made.'"

New Living Translation
So we will defeat Jerusalem and her gods, just as we destroyed Samaria with hers.'"

Update Bible Version
shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

New Century Version
As I defeated Samaria and her idols, I will also defeat Jerusalem and her idols.'"

New English Translation
As I have done to Samaria and its idols, so I will do to Jerusalem and its idols."

Webster's Bible Translation
Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

World English Bible
shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Amplified Bible
Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?" [declares Assyria].

English Standard Version
shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her images?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether not as Y dide to Samarie, and to the idols therof, so Y schal do to Jerusalem, and to the simylacris therof?

English Revised Version
shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Berean Standard Bible
and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?"

American Standard Version
shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Bible in Basic English
So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

Complete Jewish Bible
so won't I do to Yerushalayim and her non-gods what I did to Shomron and her idols?'"

Darby Translation
—shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her images?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?'

King James Version (1611)
Shall I not, as I haue done vnto Samaria and her idoles, so doe to Ierusalem and her idoles?

New Life Bible
Should I not do to Jerusalem and her gods just as I have done to Samaria and her gods?"

New Revised Standard
shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols what I have done to Samaria and her images?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Shall not I, as I haue done to Samaria, and to the idoles thereof, so doe to Ierusalem and to the idoles thereof?

George Lamsa Translation
And as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so will I do to Jerusalem and her idols.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Shall I not as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so, do to Jerusalem and her images?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Revised Standard Version
shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Sama'ria and her images?"

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Shall I not do vnto Hierusalem and her images, as I dyd vnto Samaria and her idols?

Good News Translation
I have destroyed Samaria and all its idols, and I will do the same to Jerusalem and the images that are worshiped there."

Christian Standard Bible®
and as I did to Samaria and its worthless imageswill I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?”

Hebrew Names Version
shall I not, as I have done to Shomron and her idols, so do to Yerushalayim and her idols?

King James Version
Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

Lexham English Bible
shall I not do to Jerusalem and its idols what I have done to Samaria and her idols?"

Literal Translation
shall I not do to Jerusalem and her idols as I have done to Samaria and her idols?

Young's Literal Translation
Do I not -- as I have done to Samaria, And to her worthless things, So do to Jerusalem and to her grievous things?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Shal I not do vnto Ierusalem and their ymages, as I dyd vnto Samaria and their ymages?

New American Standard Bible
Shall I not do the same to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?"

New King James Version
As I have done to Samaria and her idols, Shall I not do also to Jerusalem and her idols?"'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her images Just as I have done to Samaria and her idols?"

Legacy Standard Bible
Shall I not do to Jerusalem and her imagesJust as I have done to Samaria and her idols?"

Contextual Overview

⁵ Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my wrath, and anger are in their hands. ⁶ I will send my wrath against a sinful nation, and I will charge my people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make them dust. ⁷ But he meant not thus, neither did he devise thus in his soul: but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few. ⁸ And if they should say to him, Thou alone art ruler; ⁹ then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? and have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? ¹⁰ As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria. ¹¹ For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have finished doing all things on Mount Sion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities: and I will take with my hand all the world as a nest: and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape me, or contradict me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as I have: Isaiah 36:19, Isaiah 36:20, Isaiah 37:10-13

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 17:3 - king of Assyria 2 Kings 18:11 - the king 2 Chronicles 12:4 - came 2 Chronicles 32:14 - among Hosea 8:11 - many

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noe, Sem, Cham, Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babylon, and Orech, and Archad, and Chalanne, in the land of Senaar.

Numbers 24:22
and though Beor should have a skillfully contrived hiding-place, the Assyrians shall carry thee away captive.

Numbers 24:24
And one shall come forth from the hands of the Citians, and shall afflict Assur, and shall afflict the Hebrews, and they shall perish together.

2 Kings 19:36
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineve.

Ezra 4:2
And they drew near to Zorobabel, and to the heads of families, and said to them, We will build with you; for as ye do, we seek to serve our God, and we do sacrifice to him from the days of Asaradan king of Assur, who brought us hither.

Psalms 83:8
Yea, Assur too is come with them: they have become a help to the children of Lot. Pause.

Isaiah 37:37
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and dwelt in Nineve.

Ezekiel 27:23
Charra, and Chanaa, these were thy merchants: Assur, and Charman, were thy merchants:

Ezekiel 32:22
There are Assur and all his company: all his slain have been laid there:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Shall I not, as I have done to Samaria, and her idols,.... Kimchi observes, that what is said in the preceding verses was said before Samaria was taken, but this after it was taken:

so do to Jerusalem, and her idols; he had taken Samaria, and carried the ten tribes captive, and now his eye was upon Judah and Jerusalem; and such was his insolence, impiety, and blasphemy, that he reckons the true God, whom the Jews worshipped, among the idols of the Gentiles, and upon a level with them, if not inferior to them, especially to his own idol, and thought himself superior to him.

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 the gods worshipped by Jerusalem and Samaria. And is there any probability, therefore, that the protection on which you who are Jews are leaning, will be able to deliver you?’ Jerusalem he regarded as an idolatrous city, like others; and as all others had hitherto been unable to retard his movements, he inferred that it would be so with Jerusalem. This is, therefore, the confident boasting of “a man” who regarded himself as able to vanquish all “the gods” that the nations worshipped. The same confident boasting he uttered when he sent messengers to Hezekiah; 2 Kings 19:12 : ‘Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my father destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Thelasar?’ Isaiah 36:18-20 : ‘Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? Where are the gods of Hamath and of Arphad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? And have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?’

Hath found - That is, ‘I have found them unable to defend themselves by their trust in their idols, and have subdued them.’

The kingdoms of the idols - The kingdoms that worship idols.

And whose graven images - That is, whose idols; or whose representations of the gods. The word properly signifies that which is hewn or cut out; and then the block of wood, or stone, that is carved into an image of the god. Here it, refers to the gods themselves, probably, as having been found to be impotent, though he supposed them to be more powerful that those of Jerusalem and Samaria.

Did excel - Hebrew, ‘More than Jerusalem,’ where the inseperable preposition מ m, is used to denote comparison. They were “more” to be dreaded; or more mighty than those of Jerusalem.

Of Jerusalem - Jerusalem and Samaria had often been guilty of the worship of idols; and it is probable that Sennacherib regarded them as idolaters in the same sense as other nations. They had given occasion for this suspicion by their having often fallen into idolatrous habits; and the Assyrian monarch did not regard them as in any manner distinguished from surrounding nations. It is not improbable that he was aware that Jerusalem worshipped Yahweh (compare Isaiah 36:20); but he doubtless regarded Yahweh as a mere tutelary divinity - the special god of that land, as Baal, Ashtaroth, etc., were of the countries in which they were adored. For it was a common doctrine among ancient idolaters, that each nation had its special god; that the claims of that god were to be respected and regarded in that nation; and that thus all nations should worship their own gods undisturbed. Yahweh was thus regarded as the tutelary god of the Jewish nation. The sin of Sennacherib consisted in confounding Yahweh with false gods, and in then setting him at defiance.

Isaiah 10:11

Shall I not ... - ‘Shall I not meet with the same success at Jerusalem that I have elsewhere? As I have overcome all others and as Jerusalem has no particular advantages; as the gods of other nations were more in number, and mightier than those of Jerusalem, and yet were unable to resist me; what is there in Jerusalem that can stay my progress?’