Isa 10:9, 11 | JFB | e4.org | 9. Is not . . . as —Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts ( ). Calno —Calneh, built by Nimrod ( ), once his capital, on the Tigris. Carchemish —Circesium, on the Euphrates. Taken afterwards by Necho, king of Egypt; and retaken by Nebuchadnezzar: by the Euphrates ( ). Hamath —in Syria, north of Canaan ( ). Taken by Assyria about 753 B.C. From it colonists were planted by Assyria in Samaria. Arpad —near Hamath. Samaria —now overthrown. Damascus

‏ Isaiah 10:9

9. Is not . . . as—Was there any one of these cities able to withstand me? Not one. So Rab-shakeh vaunts (Isa 36:19).

Calno—Calneh, built by Nimrod (Ge 10:10), once his capital, on the Tigris.

Carchemish—Circesium, on the Euphrates. Taken afterwards by Necho, king of Egypt; and retaken by Nebuchadnezzar: by the Euphrates (Jer 46:2).

Hamath—in Syria, north of Canaan (Ge 10:18). Taken by Assyria about 753 B.C. From it colonists were planted by Assyria in Samaria.

Arpad—near Hamath.

Samaria—now overthrown.

Damascus— (Isa 17:1, 3).

‏ Isaiah 10:11

10, 11. found—unable to resist me: hath overcome (so Ps 21:8).

and whose—rather, "and their." This clause, down to "Samaria," is parenthetical.

excel—were more powerful. He regards Jerusalem as idolatrous, an opinion which it often had given too much ground for: Jehovah was in his view the mere local god of Judea, as Baal of the countries where it was adored, nay, inferior in power to some national gods (Isa 36:19, 20; 37:12). See in opposition, Isa 37:20; 46:1.

As my hand . . . shall I not, as I have—a double protasis. Agitation makes one accumulate sentences.