Isa 30:30-33 | Clarke | e4.org | Verse 30. The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard ] Kimchi understands this of the great destruction of the Assyrian host by the angel of the Lord. Instead of bezaaph ats , "with swift anger," five of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. and one of my own, read bezaam aph , "with detestation indignant." For ats , "swift," which is the common reading, forty-two of Kennicott's , forty-three of De Rossi's , and two of my own, have aph , "wrath or fury." The former reading, ats, is not found in any Bible previously to that of Van der Hooght , in 1705; and there it seems to be a typographical mistake.

‏ Isaiah 30:30-33

Verse 30. The Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard] Kimchi understands this of the great destruction of the Assyrian host by the angel of the Lord. Instead of bezaaph ats, "with swift anger," five of Dr. Kennicott's MSS. and one of my own, read bezaam aph, "with detestation indignant." For ats, "swift," which is the common reading, forty-two of Kennicott's, forty-three of De Rossi's, and two of my own, have aph, "wrath or fury." The former reading, ats, is not found in any Bible previously to that of Van der Hooght, in 1705; and there it seems to be a typographical mistake.

Verse 31. Which smote with a rod-"He that was ready to smite with his staff"] "Post ashshur, forte excidit asher."-SECKER. After ashshur, probably asher, "which," has been omitted.

Verse 32. The grounded staff-"The rod of his correction"] For musadah, the grounded staff, of which no one yet has been able to make any tolerable sense, Le Clerc conjectured musarah, of correction; (see Pr 22:15;) and so it is in two MSS., (one of them ancient,) and seems to be so in the Bodleian MS. The Syriac has deshuebedah, virgo domans, vet subjectionis,-"the taming rod, or rod of subjection."

With tabrets and harps] With every demonstration of joy and thanksgiving for the destruction of the enemy in so wonderful a manner: with hymns of praise, accompanied with musical instruments. See Isa 30:29.

With it-"Against them."] For bah, against her, fifty-two MSS. and five editions read bam, against them.

Verse 33. For Tophet is ordained] Tophet is a valley very near to Jerusalem, to the southeast, called also the valley of Hinnom or Gehenna; where the Canaanites, and afterwards the Israelites, sacrificed their children, by making them pass through the fire, that is, by burning them in the fire, to Molech, as some suppose. It is therefore used for a place of punishment by fire; and by our blessed Saviour in the Gospel for hell-fire, as the Jews themselves had applied it. See Chald. on Isa 33:14, where mokedey olam is rendered "the Gehenna of everlasting fire." Here the place where the Assyrian army was destroyed is called Tophet by a metonymy; for the Assyrian army was destroyed probably at a greater distance from Jerusalem, and quite on the opposite side of it: for Nob is mentioned as the last station, from which the king of Assyria should threaten Jerusalem, Isa 10:32, where the prophet seems to have given a very exact chorographical description of his march in order to attack the city; which however he never reached.-L.