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Yesaya 10:34

34 And He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon [the Assyrian] with its majestic trees shall fall by the Mighty One and mightily. Gen. 49:24; Isa. 9:6.">[fn]

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Assyria;   Iron;   Isaiah;   Scofield Reference Index - Armageddon;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Cedar, the;   Lebanon;   Trees;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lebanon;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Trees;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Remnant;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Axe;   Forest;   Iron;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ax, Ax Head;   Isaiah;   Tools;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Thessalonians Epistles to the;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Assyria;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Iron;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Forest;   Gallant;   Isaiah;   Thicket;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Johanan B. Zakkai;   Lebanon;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
34 And He will cut down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon [the Assyrian] with its majestic trees shall fall by the Mighty One and mightily. Gen. 49:24; Isa. 9:6.">[fn]

Contextual Overview

24 Therefore thus saith the Lorde God of hoastes: Thou my people that dwellest in Sion, be not afraide for the king of the Assirians: he shall smyte thee with a rod, and shall lyft vp his staffe against thee, as the Egyptians dyd sometime. 25 But very soone after shall my wrath and indignation be fulfilled in the destruction of them: 26 Moreouer, the Lorde of hoastes shall stirre vp a scourge for him, like as was the slaughter of Madian vpo the rocke Oreb, and as the destruction of the Egyptians when he lyfted vp his rod vpon the sea. 27 Then shal his burthen be taken from thy shoulders, and his yoke from thy necke, yea the same yoke shalbe destroyed because of the vnction. 28 He shal come to Aiath, and go thorow towarde Migron, at Michmas shall he lay vp his harnesse. 29 They shall go ouer the foorde, Geba shalbe their resting place, Rhama shalbe afraide, Gibea Saul shall flee away. 30 Lift vp thy voyce O daughter Gallim, geue eare to Laisa thou poore Anathoth. 31 Madmena shall tremble for feare, but the citizens of Gabim are manly. 32 Yet shall he remaine at Nob that day: after that shall he lyft vp his hande against the mount of the daughter Sion the hyll of Hierusalem. 33 But see, the Lord God of hoastes shall breake downe the bough with feare, he shall hewe downe the proude, and fell the high minded.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

cut down: Isaiah 10:18, Isaiah 37:24, Jeremiah 22:7, Jeremiah 46:22, Jeremiah 46:23, Jeremiah 48:2, Nahum 1:12

Lebanon: Zechariah 11:1, Zechariah 11:2

by a mighty one: or, mightily, Isaiah 31:8, Isaiah 37:36, Psalms 103:20, Daniel 4:13, Daniel 4:14, Daniel 4:23, 2 Thessalonians 1:7, 2 Peter 2:11, Revelation 10:1, Revelation 18:21

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 6:5 - ax head 2 Chronicles 32:21 - the leaders Psalms 37:36 - General Isaiah 2:13 - General Isaiah 10:25 - For yet Isaiah 17:13 - but Isaiah 37:7 - I will Isaiah 48:3 - and I Isaiah 51:13 - where is Ezekiel 31:3 - a cedar Daniel 4:10 - a tree Joel 3:11 - cause Luke 3:9 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,.... The multitude of the common soldiers, the whole body of the army, by means of one of his angels, that excel in strength, for which he is compared to "iron"; and which is explained in the next clause:

and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one; the Assyrian army is compared to the forest of Lebanon, for the multitude of trees in it, and the tallness of its cedars, it abounding not only with common soldiers, but with great men; so it is compared to a forest, and to Carmel, or a fruitful field, in Isaiah 10:18 and the Assyrian monarch is said to be a cedar in Lebanon, Ezekiel 31:3 which fell by the hands of one of the mighty angels, 2 Kings 19:35 some, because of this last clause, think that this and the preceding verse

Isaiah 10:33 are to be understood of the calamities that should come upon the Jews, at the time of the Babylonish captivity; for though Sennacherib should stop at Nob; and proceed no further, however should not be able to take Jerusalem, yet hereafter a successor of his should; and, according to this sense, by the "bough" lopped may be meant Jeconiah, or Zedekiah king of Judah; by the "high ones of stature", and the "haughty" ones, his children, the princes of the blood, and the nobles of the land; and by the "thickets of the forest", the common people, who were either killed or carried captive; and by Lebanon, the temple, Zechariah 11:1 and by the "mighty one", Nebuchadnezzar that burnt it. And some of the ancient Jews interpret this last clause of the destruction of the temple by Vespasian; they observe upon this passage in one place m, there is no mighty one but a king, as in

Jeremiah 30:21 and there is no Lebanon but the house of the sanctuary, according to Deuteronomy 3:25 wherefore when a certain Jew saluted Vespasian as a king, and he replied that he was no king, the Jew made answer, if thou art not a king, thou shall be one; for this house (meaning the temple) shall not be destroyed but by the hands of a king, as it is said, "and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one" n.

m T. Bab. Gittin, fol. 56. 2. n Midrash Echa Rabbati, fol 46. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest - The army of the Assyrians, described here as a thick, dense forest; compare Isaiah 10:18-19.

With iron - As a forest is cut down with an axe, so the prophet uses this phrase here, to keep up and carry out the figure. The army was destroyed with the pestilence 2 Kings 19:35; but it fell as certainly as a forest falls before the axe.

And Lebanon - Lebanon is here evidently descriptive of the army of the Assyrian, retaining the idea of a beautiful and magnificent forest. Thus, in Ezekiel 31:3, it is said, ‘the king of the Assyrians was a cedar of Lebanon with fair branches.’ Lebanon is usually applied to the Jews as descriptive of them (Jeremiah 22:6, Jeremiah 22:23; Zechariah 10:10; Zechariah 11:0: l), but it is evidently applied here to the Assyrian army; and the sense is, that that army should be soon and certainly destroyed, and that, therefore, the inhabitants of Jerusalem had no cause of alarm; see the notes at Isaiah 37:0.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 10:34. Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one — באדיר beaddir, the angel of the Lord, who smote them, Kimchi. And so Vitringa understands it. Others translate, "The high cedars of Lebanon shall fall:" but the king of Assyria is the person who shall be overthrown.


 
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