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Updated Bible Version

Isaiah 10:19

And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Isaiah;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Assyria;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Cedar;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Nation;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Forest;   Nineveh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Assur;   Cedar;   Shepherd;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Arpad;   Isaiah;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Writing;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Assyria ;   Nineveh ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;   Cedar;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Assyr'ia, as'shur,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Trees;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Cedar;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Child;   Education;   Isaiah;   Remnant;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in numberThat a child could write them down.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The trees also of his wood whiche remayne shalbe of such a number that a chylde may tell them.
Darby Translation
And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them.
New King James Version
Then the rest of the trees of his forest Will be so few in number That a child may write them.
Literal Translation
And the rest of the trees of the forest shall be few, so that a boy might write them.
Easy-to-Read Version
There will be a few trees left standing in the forest—so few that even a child could count them.
World English Bible
The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
King James Version (1611)
And the rest of the trees of his forrest shall be few, that a child may write them.
King James Version
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The trees also of his felde shalbe of soch a nombre, that a childe maye tell them.
Amplified Bible
And the remaining trees of Assyria's forest will be so few in number That a child could write them down.
American Standard Version
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
Bible in Basic English
And the rest of the trees of his wood will be small in number, so that a child may put them down in writing.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
New English Translation
There will be so few trees left in his forest, a child will be able to count them.
Contemporary English Version
There will be so few trees that even a young child can count them.
Complete Jewish Bible
So few forest trees will remain that a child could list them.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the rest of the trees of his forest shalbe fewe, that a childe may tell them.
George Lamsa Translation
And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be so few that a child may write them down.
Hebrew Names Version
The remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, so that a child may write them.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.
New Living Translation
Of all that glorious forest, only a few trees will survive— so few that a child could count them!
New Life Bible
And the rest of his trees will be so few that a child could write them down.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And they that are left of them shall be a small number, and a child shall write them.
English Revised Version
And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them.
Berean Standard Bible
The remaining trees of its forests will be so few that a child could count them.
New Revised Standard
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And, the remnant of his forest-trees, few in number, shall become, - yea, a child, might describe them!
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that remain of the trees of his forest shall be so few, that they shall easily be numbered, and a child shall write them down.
Lexham English Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be a small number, and a boy can write them down.
English Standard Version
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
New American Standard Bible
And the rest of the trees of his forest will be so small in number That a child could write them down.
New Century Version
The trees left standing will be so few that even a child could count them.
Good News Translation
There will be so few trees left that even a child will be able to count them.
Christian Standard Bible®
The remaining trees of its forest will be so few in number that a child could count them.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the relifs of the tree of his forest schulen be noumbrid for fewnesse, and a child schal write hem.
Revised Standard Version
The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few that a child can write them down.
Young's Literal Translation
And the rest of the trees of his forest [are] few, And a youth doth write them.

Contextual Overview

5 Ho Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! 6 I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath I will give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. 7 Nevertheless he does not mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations. 8 For he says, Are not my princes all of them kings? 9 Isn't Calno as Carchemish? isn't Hamath as Arpad? isn't Samaria as Damascus? 10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images excelled those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; 11 shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols? 12 Therefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. 13 For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the bounds of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures, and like a valiant man I have brought down those that sit [on thrones]: 14 and my hand has found as a nest the riches of the peoples; and as one gathers eggs that are forsaken, I have gathered all the earth: and there was none that moved the wing, or that opened the mouth, or chirped.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

few: Heb. number, Isaiah 37:36

Reciprocal: Psalms 29:9 - discovereth Isaiah 21:17 - the mighty Jeremiah 20:2 - the stocks Jeremiah 21:14 - in the Jeremiah 44:28 - a small Ezekiel 12:16 - a few men

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, [namely], of Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and to them were sons born after the flood.
Genesis 10:2
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:7
And the sons of Cush: Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabteca; and the sons of Raamah: Sheba, and Dedan.
Genesis 10:8
And Cush begot Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth.
Genesis 10:10
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, and Accad-all of them in the land of Shinar.
Genesis 10:15
And Canaan begot Sidon his first-born, and Heth,
Genesis 10:17
and the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite,
Genesis 10:18
and the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanite spread abroad.
Genesis 10:21
And to Shem, the father of all the sons of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were sons born.
Genesis 10:24
And Arpachshad begot Shelah; and Shelah begot Eber.

Gill's Notes on the 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 Rabbins say r, were no more than ten, as Jarchi and Kimchi observe; yea, some say there were but five left who escaped, and name them, Sennacherib and his two sons, Nebuchadnezzar and Nebuzaradan:

that a child may write them; count them, and take down their names; and it may be understood of a military muster, and the sense be, that the army should be reduced to so small a number by this stroke upon them, that there would be no need of an able muster master to take the account of them, a child would be equal to such a task. The Targum is,

"and the rest of his warriors shall fail, that the people shall be a small number, and shall be reckoned a weak kingdom.''

r T. Bab. ib. fol. 95. 2. Praefat. Echa Rabbati, fol. 41. 1.

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 threatened judgment shall come upon them.

That a child may write them - That a child shall be able to number them, or write their names; that is, they shall be very few. A child can number or count but few; yet the number of those who would be left, would be so very small that even a child could count them with ease. It is probable that a few of the army of Sennacherib escaped (see the note at Isaiah 37:37); and compared with the whole army, the remnant might bear a striking resemblance to the few decaying trees of a once magnificent forest of cedars.


 
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