Isa 10:5-12 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 5. O Assyrian -"Ho to the Assyrian"] Here begins a new and distinct prophecy, continued to the end of the twelfth chapter: and it appears from of this chapter, that this prophecy was delivered after the taking of Samaria by Shalmaneser; which was in the sixth year of the reign of Hezekiah: and as the former part of it foretells the invasion of Sennacherib, and the destruction of his army, which makes the whole subject of this chapter it must have been delivered before the fourteenth of the same reign. The staff in their hand -"The staff in whose hand"] The word hu , the staff itself , in this place seems to embarrass the sentence. I omit it on the authority of the Alexandrine copy of the Septuagint : nine MSS., ( two ancient,) and one of my own, ancient, for umatteh hu , read mattehu, his staff . Archbishop Secker was not satisfied with the present reading. He proposes another method of clearing up the sense, by reading beyom, in the day , instead of beyadam, in their hand : "And he is a staff in the day of mine indignation."

‏ Isaiah 10:5-12

Verse 5. O Assyrian-"Ho to the Assyrian"] Here begins a new and distinct prophecy, continued to the end of the twelfth chapter: and it appears from Isa 10:9-11 of this chapter, that this prophecy was delivered after the taking of Samaria by Shalmaneser; which was in the sixth year of the reign of Hezekiah: and as the former part of it foretells the invasion of Sennacherib, and the destruction of his army, which makes the whole subject of this chapter it must have been delivered before the fourteenth of the same reign.

The staff in their hand-"The staff in whose hand"] The word hu, the staff itself, in this place seems to embarrass the sentence. I omit it on the authority of the Alexandrine copy of the Septuagint: nine MSS., (two ancient,) and one of my own, ancient, for umatteh hu, read mattehu, his staff. Archbishop Secker was not satisfied with the present reading. He proposes another method of clearing up the sense, by reading beyom, in the day, instead of beyadam, in their hand: "And he is a staff in the day of mine indignation."

Verse 12. The Lord-"JEHOVAH"] For Adonai, fourteen MSS. and three editions read Yehovah.

The fruit-"The effect"] " peri, f. tsebi, vid. Isa 13:19, sed confer, Pr 1:31; 31:16, 31."-SECKER. The Chaldee renders the word peri by obadey, works; which seems to be the true sense; and I have followed it.-L.