Isaiah 10:11

Bible in Basic English

So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images.

Parallel Translations

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?

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

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 Century Version
As I defeated Samaria and her idols, I will also defeat 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].

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

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?

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I do also to Jerusalem and her idols.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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?"

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?"

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?

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

Contextual Overview

⁵ Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment! ⁶ I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets. ⁷ But this is not what is in his mind, and this is not his design; but his purpose is destruction, and the cutting off of more and more nations. ⁸ For he says, Are not all my captains kings? ⁹ Will not the fate of Calno be like that of Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? ¹⁰ As my hand has come on the kingdoms of the images, whose pictured images were more in number than those of Jerusalem and Samaria; ¹¹ So, as I have done to Samaria and her images, I will do to Jerusalem and her images. ¹² For this cause it will be that, when the purpose of the Lord against Mount Zion and Jerusalem is complete, I will send punishment on the pride of the heart of the king of Assyria, and on the glory of his uplifted eyes. ¹³ For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them; ¹⁴ And I have put my hands on the wealth of the peoples, as on the place where a bird has put her eggs; and as a man may take the eggs from which a bird has gone, so I have taken all the earth for myself: and not a wing was moved, and not a mouth gave out a sound.

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 Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters

Genesis 10:10
And at the first, his kingdom was Babel and Erech and Accad and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

Numbers 24:22
But still the Kenites will be wasted, till Asshur takes you away prisoner.

Numbers 24:24
But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.

2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

Ezra 4:2
Then they came to Zerubbabel and to the heads of families, and said to them, Let us take part in the building with you; for we are servants of your God, even as you are; and we have been making offerings to him from the days of Esar-haddon, king of Assyria, who put us here.

Psalms 83:8
Assur is joined with them; they have become the support of the children of Lot. (Selah.)

Isaiah 37:37
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traders of Asshur and all the Medes:

Ezekiel 32:22
There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:

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?’