Isaiah 10:32

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.

Bible Verse Review
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Nob: 1 Samuel 21:1, 1 Samuel 22:19, Nehemiah 11:32

shake: Isaiah 10:24, Isaiah 11:15, Isaiah 13:2, Isaiah 19:16, Zechariah 2:9

the mount: Isaiah 2:2, Isaiah 37:22

Reciprocal: Isaiah 1:8 - daughter Isaiah 14:25 - I will Isaiah 16:1 - the mount Isaiah 25:5 - shalt bring Isaiah 29:2 - I will Isaiah 33:3 - General Isaiah 37:33 - He Micah 4:8 - the strong Nahum 1:12 - Through

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Genesis 9:7
But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; spread out across the earth and multiply upon it."

Genesis 9:19
These three were the sons of Noah, and from them the whole earth was populated.

Genesis 10:1
This is the account of Noah's sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

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

Genesis 10:25
And two sons were born to Eber: One was named Peleg, because in his days the earth was divided, and his brother was named Joktan.

Genesis 10:29
Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were sons of Joktan.

Genesis 10:31
These are the sons of Shem, 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

As yet shall he remain at Nob that day,.... The same day he came from Gebim; and proceed no further as yet, but make a short stay, and prepare himself and army to march to Jerusalem the next day: the Jews say l, that he performed all his journeys in one day; the same day he came to Ajath he came to Nob, where he stayed the remaining part of the day. Nob was a city of the priests, 1 Samuel 22:19 and so it is called in the Targum here; it was so near Jerusalem, that, as Jarchi and Kimchi say, it might be seen from hence; wherefore here he stood, in sight of Jerusalem; against the wall of it, the Targum says; and did as follows:

he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem; threatening what he would do to it, and despising it as unable to hold out against him; or the sense is this, yet a day, or in a day's time, from the last place where he was; he shall come to Nob, and there shall he stop, and go no further: or, "the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem, shall shake its hand"; bidding him defiance, insulting over him, or rejoicing at the fall of the Assyrian army. Wherefore it follows:

l T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As yet shall he remain - This is still a description of his advancing toward Jerusalem. He would make a station at Nob and remain there a day, meaning, perhaps, “only” one day, such would be his impatience to attack and destroy Jerusalem.

At Nob - Nob was a city of Benjamin, inhabited by priests; Nehemiah 11:32. When David was driven away by Saul, he came to this city, and received supplies from Ahimelech the priest; 1 Samuel 21:1-6. Nob must have been situated somewhere upon the ridge of the mount of Olives, to the northeast of the city. So Jerome, professedly from Hebrew tradition, says, ‘Stans in oppidulo Nob et procul urbem conspiciens Jerusalem.’ - “Commentary in loc.” Messrs. Robinson and Smith sought all along the ridge of the mount of Olives, from the Damascus road to the summit opposite to the city, for some traces of an ancient site which might be regarded as the place of Nob; but without the slightest success. - “Bib. Researches,” ii. p. 150.

He shall shake his hand - That is, in the attitude of menace, or threatening. This language implies, that the city of Nob was so near to Jerusalem that the latter city could be seen from it; and the description denotes, that at the sight of Jerusalem Sennacherib would be full of indignation, and utter against it the threat of speedy and complete ruin.

The mount of the daughter of Zion - See the note at Isaiah 1:8. The Chaldee renders this, ‘He shall come, and stand in Nob, the city of the priests, over against the wall of Jerusalem, and shall answer and say to his army, “Is not this that city of Jerusalem against which I have assembled all my armies, and on account of which I have made an exaction on all my provinces? And lo, it is less and more feeble than any of the defenses of the people which I have subjected in the strength of my hand.” Over against that he shall stand, and shake his head, and shall bring his hand against the mount of the sanctuary which is Zion, and against the court which is in Jerusalem.’ Jarchi and Kimchi say, that Nob was so near to Jerusalem that it could be seen from thence; and hence, this is mentioned as the last station of the army of the Assyrian, the end of his march, and where the prize seemed to be within his grasp.