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Isaiah 10:10
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As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms,whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Yerushalayim and of Shomron;
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
"As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
I defeated those kingdoms that worship idols, and those idols were more than the idols of Jerusalem and Samaria.
"As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images were greater and more feared than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
Like as mine hand hath founde the kingdomes of the idoles, seeing their idoles were aboue Ierusalem, and aboue Samaria:
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols,Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
The gods of Jerusalem and Samaria are weaker than the gods of those powerful nations. And I will destroy Jerusalem, together with its gods and idols, just as I did Samaria.
Just as my hand reached the kingdoms of non-gods, with more images than in Yerushalayim and Shomron;
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols,—and their graven images exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
I defeated those evil kingdoms and now I control them. The idols those people worship are better than the idols of Jerusalem and Samaria.
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols —and their images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria—
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols (for their carved images excelled Jerusalem's and Samaria's);
As who say: I were able to wynne the kingdome of the Idolaters and their goddes, but not Ierusalem and Samaria.
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria;
As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
As my hand hath found the kingdomes of the idoles, and whose grauen images did excell them of Ierusalem and of Samaria:
[As who say] I were able to winne the kyngdomes of the idolaters and their gods, but not Hierusalem and Samaria.
As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
As myn hond foond the rewmes of idol, so and the symylacris of hem of Jerusalem and of Samarie.
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem's or Samaria's.
As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.
My hand took the nations of the false gods, whose false gods were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria.
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
As my hand hath reached unto the kingdoms of idols, - whose images did excel them of Jerusalem and Samaria,
As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria.
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Sama'ria,
As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, [Greater] than Jerusalem and than Samaria,
"As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
Contextual Overview
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the kingdoms: Isaiah 10:14, 2 Kings 18:33-35, 2 Kings 19:12, 2 Kings 19:13, 2 Kings 19:17-19, 2 Chronicles 32:12-16, 2 Chronicles 32:19
Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Psalms 12:3 - tongue Isaiah 36:19 - and have Hosea 8:11 - many Romans 8:39 - height
Cross-References
As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.
The city was called Babylon, because there the Lord mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.
Four kings, Amraphel of Babylonia, Arioch of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer of Elam, and Tidal of Goiim,
I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus.
When that day comes, the Lord will once again use his power and bring back home those of his people who are left in Assyria and Egypt, in the lands of Pathros, Ethiopia, Elam, Babylonia, and Hamath, and in the coastlands and on the islands of the sea.
About that same time the king of Babylonia, Merodach Baladan, son of Baladan, heard that King Hezekiah had been sick, so he sent him a letter and a present.
The Lord says, "Attack the people of Merathaim and of Pekod. Kill and destroy them. Do everything I command you. I, the Lord , have spoken.
The Lord let him capture King Jehoiakim and seize some of the Temple treasures. He took some prisoners back with him to the temple of his gods in Babylon, and put the captured treasures in the temple storerooms.
Go and look at the city of Calneh. Then go on to the great city of Hamath and on down to the Philistine city of Gath. Were they any better than the kingdoms of Judah and Israel? Was their territory larger than yours?
Twist and groan, people of Jerusalem, like a woman giving birth, for now you will have to leave the city and live in the open country. You will have to go to Babylon, but there the Lord will save you from your enemies.
Gill's Notes on the 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 sooner did he come up to them, and looked on them, and saw where they were, but they fell into his hands; they gave up themselves to him at once, and he took possession of them.
And whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; being made of better metal, or more richly ornamented, or worshipped in a more pompous manner; or were "more" than they of Jerusalem and Samaria, exceeded them in number; or were "stronger" and mightier than they, as Kimchi supplies it, and yet could not protect them; or were "from Jerusalem, and from Samaria"; the wicked men of Israel, Jarchi says, supplied all the nations with images, they all sprung from them; and if the idols which came from hence could not secure the nations of the earth from falling into the hands of the Assyrian monarch, neither could they preserve Jerusalem and Samaria from being taken by 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?’
