Isaiah 10:31

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

²⁴Therefore, this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: "O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did. ²⁵For in just a very little while My wrath will be spent and My anger will turn to their destruction." ²⁶And the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as when He struck Midian at the rock of Oreb; He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt. ²⁷On that day the burden will be lifted from your shoulders, and the yoke from your neck. The yoke will be broken because of your fatness. ²⁸Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing supplies at Michmash. ²⁹They have crossed at the ford: "We will spend the night at Geba." Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul flees. ³⁰Cry aloud, O daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth! ³¹Madmenah flees; the people of Gebim take refuge.³²Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of the Daughter of Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem. ³³Behold, the Lord GOD of Hosts will lop off the branches with terrifying power. The tall trees will be cut down, the lofty ones will be felled.

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Madmenah: Joshua 15:31, Madmannah

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 2:49 - the father of Madmannah Isaiah 25:10 - for the dunghill Micah 1:13 - bind

Cross-References

Genesis 10:5
From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham according to their clans, languages, lands, and nations.

Acts 17:26
From one man He made every nation of men, to inhabit the whole earth; and He determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their lands.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Madmenah is removed,.... That is, the inhabitants of it, who removed from thence upon hearing that the Assyrian army had invaded the land, and was coming up to Jerusalem. There was a place called Madmannah, which lay in the southern part of the tribe of Judah,

Joshua 15:31 which, Jerom i says, was then called Memris, and was near the city of Gaza; but whether the same with this is not certain.

The inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee; of this place we have no account any where. Hillerus k thinks the whole name of the city was Joshebehaggebim, which we render "the inhabitants of Gebim"; and supposes it had its name from the ditches that were in it, or about it.

i De Iocis Hebraicis, fol. 93. E. k Onomast. Sacr. p. 310.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Madmenah - This city is mentioned nowhere else. The city of Madmanna, or Medemene, mentioned in Joshua 15:31, was in the bounds of the tribe of Simeon, and was far south, toward Gaza. It cannot be the place intended here.

Is removed - Or, the inhabitants have fled from fear; see Isaiah 10:29.

Gebim - This place is unknown. It is nowhere else mentioned.

Gather themselves to flee - A description of the alarm prevailing at the approach of Sennacherib.