Isaías 31:8

La Biblia Reina-Valera Gomez

Entonces el asirio caerá a espada, no de varón; y lo consumirá espada, no de hombre; y huirá de la presencia de la espada, y sus jóvenes serán tributarios.

Parallel Translations

La Biblia de las Americas
El asirio caerá por espada no de hombre, y la espada no humana lo devorará; no escapará de la espada, y sus jóvenes serán sometidos a trabajos forzados.

La Biblia Reina-Valera
Entonces caer� el Assur por cuhillo, no de var�n; y consumir�lo espada, no de hombre; y huir� de la presencia de la espada, y sus mancebos ser�n tributarios.

Sagradas Escrituras (1569)
Entonces caer� el Assur por espada no de var�n; y cuchillo, no de hombre lo consumir�; y huir� de la presencia de la espada, y sus j�venes desmayar�n.

Bible Verse Review
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shall the: Isaiah 10:16-19, Isaiah 10:33, Isaiah 10:34, Isaiah 14:25, Isaiah 29:5, Isaiah 30:27-33, Isaiah 37:35, 2 Kings 19:34-37, 2 Chronicles 32:21, Hosea 1:7

he shall flee: Isaiah 37:37, Isaiah 37:38

from the sword: or, for fear of the sword

discomfited: or, tributary. Heb. for melting, or tribute.

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:26 - edge Psalms 76:5 - and Psalms 118:9 - than to put Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 33:11 - your Isaiah 37:7 - I will Isaiah 37:36 - the angel Jeremiah 46:14 - the sword Jeremiah 47:4 - every Nahum 1:12 - Through Nahum 2:13 - and the sword

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man,.... That is, the Assyrian army under Sennacherib their king, which besieged Jerusalem in Hezekiah's time; which, as soon as the people were brought to a sense of their sin, and repentance for it, and cast away their idols as a proof of it, were utterly destroyed; but not in battle, not by the sword of Hezekiah, or any of his valiant generals:

and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him; neither the sword of a general, nor of a private soldier, nor indeed of any man, but of an angel; see 2 Kings 19:35:

but he shall flee from the sword; from the drawn sword of the angel, who very probably appeared in such a form as in 1 Chronicles 21:16 which Sennacherib king of Assyria seeing, as well as the slaughter made in his army by him, fled from it; in the Hebrew text it is added, "for himself" y; he fled for his life, for his own personal security; see

2 Kings 19:36:

and his young men shall be discomfited; his choice ones, the flower of his army: or "melt away" z, through fear; or die by the stroke of the angel upon them: the sense of becoming "tributary" seems to have no foundation.

y לו "fugiet sibi", Pagninus, Montanus, Cocceius; "fuga consulet sibi", Junius Tremellius. z למס יהיו "in liquefactionem, erunt", Vatablus "colliquescent", Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword - The sword is often used as an instrument of punishment. It is not meant here literally that the sword would be used, but it is employed to denote that complete destruction would come upon them.

Not of a mighty man - The idea here is, that the army should not fall by the valor of a distinguished warrior, but that it should be done by the direct interposition of God (see Isaiah 37:36).

Of a mean man - Of a man of humble rank. His army shall not be slain by the hand of mortals.

But he shall flee - The Assyrian monarch escaped when his army was destroyed, and fled toward his own land; Isaiah 37:37.

From the sword - Margin, ‘For fear of.’ The Hebrew is ‘From the face of the sword;’ and the sense is, that he would flee in consequence of the destruction of his host, here represented as destroyed by the sword of Yahweh.

And his young men - The flower and strength of his army.

Shall be discomfited - Margin, ‘For melting;’ or ‘tribute,’ or ‘tributary.’ Septuagint, Εἰς ἥττημα Eis hēttēma - ‘For destruction.’ The Hebrew word (מס mas), derived probably from מסס mâsas, “to melt away, to dissolve”) is most usually employed to denote a levy, fine, or tax - so called, says Taylor, because it wastes or exhausts the substance and strength of a people. The word is often used to denote that people become tributary, or vassals, as in Genesis 49:15; Deuteronomy 20:11; compare Joshua 16:10; 2Sa 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; 1 Kings 5:13; Esther 10:1. Probably it does not here mean that the strength of the Assyrian army would become literally tributary to the Jews, but that they would be as if they had been placed under a levy to them; their vigor and strength would melt away; as property and numbers do under taxation and tribute.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 31:8. Then shall the Assyrian fall, c. — Because he was to be discomfited by the angel of the Lord, destroying in his camp, in one night, upwards of one hundred and eighty thousand men and Sennacherib himself fell by the hands of the princes, his own sons. Not mighty men, for they were not soldiers; not mean men, for they were princes.