Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria's stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame. ThereforeThis word connects the preceding verses with the judgment that is about to be pronounced. It indicates a conclusion or result of the actions and attitudes previously described. In the context of Isaiah 10, the Assyrians have been used as an instrument of God's judgment against Israel, but their arrogance and pride have led to their own impending judgment. The Hebrew word "לָכֵן" (lakhen) signifies a divine response to human actions, emphasizing God's sovereignty and justice. the Lord GOD of Hosts
This title for God, "אֲדֹנָי יְהוִה צְבָאוֹת" (Adonai Yahweh Tseva'ot), underscores His supreme authority and command over the heavenly armies. It reflects His power and ability to execute judgment. The term "Hosts" refers to the angelic armies, highlighting God's omnipotence and His role as a divine warrior. This title reassures believers of God's ultimate control over all earthly and spiritual realms. will send
The phrase indicates an intentional act of God. The Hebrew verb "שָׁלַח" (shalach) conveys the idea of dispatching or commissioning. It underscores God's active involvement in the affairs of nations, demonstrating that He is not a passive observer but an active participant in history, orchestrating events according to His divine will. a wasting disease
This phrase, "רָזוֹן" (razon), suggests a debilitating affliction that weakens and diminishes strength. It symbolizes the internal decay and moral corruption that can afflict a nation or individual. Historically, such diseases were seen as divine judgments, reflecting the spiritual and physical consequences of pride and rebellion against God. among his stout warriors
The term "stout warriors" refers to the Assyrian army, known for its strength and might. The Hebrew "אַבִּיר" (abir) denotes mightiness or valiance. Despite their physical prowess, they are not immune to God's judgment. This serves as a reminder that human strength and military power are insignificant before the Almighty. and under his pomp
"Pomp" refers to the pride and splendor associated with the Assyrian empire. The Hebrew "כָּבוֹד" (kavod) often denotes glory or honor. This phrase highlights the futility of human arrogance and the transient nature of earthly glory. It serves as a warning against placing trust in worldly achievements and status. will be kindled a burning
The imagery of fire represents God's purifying and consuming judgment. The Hebrew "יֵקַד" (yeqad) implies an intense and destructive blaze. Fire is often used in Scripture as a metaphor for divine judgment, purification, and the presence of God. It signifies the thoroughness and inescapability of God's righteous judgment. like that of a fire
This simile reinforces the intensity and inevitability of the coming judgment. Fire, in its consuming nature, leaves nothing untouched, symbolizing the totality of God's purifying work. It serves as a call to repentance and humility, urging believers to seek refuge in God's mercy and grace. Persons / Places / Events 1. The Lord GOD of HostsThis title emphasizes God's supreme authority and command over the heavenly armies. It underscores His power to execute judgment and deliverance. 2. Stout WarriorsThese are the strong and mighty soldiers of Assyria, representing human pride and reliance on military strength rather than on God. 3. Wasting DiseaseA metaphor for the divine judgment that God will bring upon the Assyrian army, symbolizing the futility of human strength against divine will. 4. Fire Kindled Under GloryThis imagery represents the consuming judgment of God, which will burn away the false glory and pride of the Assyrians. 5. AssyriaThe dominant empire of the time, known for its military prowess and conquests, which God used as an instrument of judgment against Israel but would also judge for its arrogance. Teaching Points God's Sovereignty Over NationsRecognize that God is in control of all nations and their leaders. Human power is ultimately subject to His divine will. The Futility of Human PrideUnderstand that reliance on human strength and pride leads to downfall. True security is found in humility and dependence on God. Divine Judgment and MercyReflect on the balance of God's justice and mercy. While He judges sin, He also offers redemption and restoration to those who turn to Him. The Power of God's WordTrust in the certainty of God's promises and prophecies. What He declares will come to pass, as seen in the fulfillment of His word against Assyria. Personal Reflection on PrideExamine areas in your life where pride may have taken root. Seek God's help to cultivate humility and reliance on Him. Bible Study Questions 1. How does the title "Lord GOD of Hosts" in Isaiah 10:16 influence your understanding of God's power and authority in your life? 2. In what ways can the account of Assyria's downfall serve as a warning against pride and self-reliance in your personal or professional life? 3. How can you apply the principle of God's sovereignty over nations to current global events and your response to them? 4. Reflect on a time when you experienced God's judgment or discipline. How did it lead to growth or change in your relationship with Him? 5. How can you actively cultivate humility and dependence on God in your daily life, avoiding the pitfalls of pride exemplified by the Assyrians? Connections to Other Scriptures Isaiah 37:36This passage describes the actual fulfillment of God's judgment on the Assyrian army, where an angel of the Lord strikes down 185,000 soldiers, illustrating the wasting disease and fire kindled under glory. Proverbs 16:18This verse speaks to the theme of pride preceding destruction, which is relevant to the Assyrian empire's downfall due to its arrogance. Hebrews 12:29This New Testament reference to God as a consuming fire connects to the imagery of fire in Isaiah 10:16, emphasizing God's holiness and judgment. People Anathoth, Assyrians, Egyptians, Isaiah, Jacob, Laish, Oreb, SaulPlaces Aiath, Anathoth, Arpad, Assyria, Calno, Carchemish, Damascus, Egypt, Gallim, Geba, Gibeah, Hamath, Jerusalem, Laishah, Lebanon, Madmenah, Michmash, Midian, Migron, Mount Zion, Nob, Ramah, Samaria, ZionTopics Armies, Blazing, Burning, Cause, Disease, Fat, Fire, Flame, Glory, Honour, Hosts, Inner, Kindle, Kindled, Kindleth, Leanness, Lighted, Ones, Pomp, Sickness, Stout, Sturdy, Warriors, Wasted, WastingDictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 10:16 6142 decay
8805 pride, results Isaiah 10:12-19 5606 warfare, nature of Isaiah 10:15-16 5960 success Isaiah 10:16-17 4540 weeds Library Light or Fire?
'And the Light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.'--ISAIAH x. 17. With grand poetry the prophet pictures the Assyrian power as a forest consumed like thistles and briers by the fire of God. The text suggests solemn truths about the divine Nature and its manifestations. I. The Essential Character of God. Light and Holiness are substantially parallel. Light symbolises purity, but also knowledge and joy. Holiness …
Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy ScriptureNob. Bahurim.
That Nob was placed in the land of Benjamin, not far from Jerusalem, whence Jerusalem also might be seen,--the words of the Chaldee paraphrast, upon Isaiah 10:32, do argue. For so he speaks; "Sennacherib came and stood in Nob, a city of the priests, before the walls of Jerusalem; and said to his army, 'Is not this the city of Jerusalem, against which I have raised my whole army, and have subdued all the provinces of it? Is it not small and weak in comparison of all the fortifications of the Gentiles, …
John Lightfoot—From the Talmud and Hebraica Covenanting Predicted in Prophecy.
The fact of Covenanting, under the Old Testament dispensations, being approved of God, gives a proof that it was proper then, which is accompanied by the voice of prophecy, affording evidence that even in periods then future it should no less be proper. The argument for the service that is afforded by prophecy is peculiar, and, though corresponding with evidence from other sources, is independent. Because that God willed to make known truth through his servants the prophets, we should receive it …
John Cunningham—The Ordinance of Covenanting If Then the Prophets Prophesied that the Son of God was to Appear Upon The...
If then the prophets prophesied that the Son of God was to appear upon the earth, and prophesied also where on the earth and how and in what manner He should make known His appearance, and all these prophecies the Lord took upon Himself; our faith in Him was well-founded, and the tradition of the preaching (is) true: that is to say, the testimony of the apostles, who being sent forth by the Lord preached in all the world the Son of God, who came to suffer, and endured to the destruction of death …
Irenæus—The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching His Holy Covenant
"To remember His Holy Covenant; to grant unto us that we, being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, should serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him, all our days."-LUKE i. 68-75. WHEN Zacharias was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, he spoke of God's visiting and redeeming His people, as a remembering of His Holy Covenant. He speaks of what the blessings of that Covenant would be, not in words that had been used before, but in what is manifestly a Divine revelation …
Andrew Murray—The Two Covenants The Instrumentality of the Wicked Employed by God, While He Continues Free from Every Taint.
1. The carnal mind the source of the objections which are raised against the Providence of God. A primary objection, making a distinction between the permission and the will of God, refuted. Angels and men, good and bad, do nought but what has been decreed by God. This proved by examples. 2. All hidden movements directed to their end by the unseen but righteous instigation of God. Examples, with answers to objections. 3. These objections originate in a spirit of pride and blasphemy. Objection, that …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion King of Kings and Lord of Lords
And He hath on His vesture and on His thigh a name written, K ING OF K INGS AND L ORD OF L ORDS T he description of the administration and glory of the Redeemer's Kingdom, in defiance of all opposition, concludes the second part of Messiah Oratorio. Three different passages from the book of Revelation are selected to form a grand chorus, of which Handel's title in this verse is the close --a title which has been sometimes vainly usurped by proud worms of this earth. Eastern monarchs, in particular, …
John Newton—Messiah Vol. 2 Humility is the Root of Charity, and Meekness the Fruit of Both. ...
Humility is the root of charity, and meekness the fruit of both. There is no solid and pure ground of love to others, except the rubbish of self-love be first cast out of the soul; and when that superfluity of naughtiness is cast out, then charity hath a solid and deep foundation: "The end of the command is charity out of a pure heart," 1 Tim. i. 5. It is only such a purified heart, cleansed from that poison and contagion of pride and self-estimation, that can send out such a sweet and wholesome …
Hugh Binning—The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Purposes of God.
In discussing this subject I shall endeavor to show, I. What I understand by the purposes of God. Purposes, in this discussion, I shall use as synonymous with design, intention. The purposes of God must be ultimate and proximate. That is, God has and must have an ultimate end. He must purpose to accomplish something by his works and providence, which he regards as a good in itself, or as valuable to himself, and to being in general. This I call his ultimate end. That God has such an end or purpose, …
Charles Grandison Finney—Systematic Theology A Discourse of the House and Forest of Lebanon
OF THE HOUSE OF THE FOREST OF LEBANON. ADVERTISEMENT BY THE EDITOR. That part of Palestine in which the celebrated mountains of Lebanon are situated, is the border country adjoining Syria, having Sidon for its seaport, and Land, nearly adjoining the city of Damascus, on the north. This metropolitan city of Syria, and capital of the kingdom of Damascus, was strongly fortified; and during the border conflicts it served as a cover to the Assyrian army. Bunyan, with great reason, supposes that, to keep …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 Of Antichrist, and his Ruin: and of the Slaying the Witnesses.
BY JOHN BUNYAN PREFATORY REMARKS BY THE EDITOR This important treatise was prepared for the press, and left by the author, at his decease, to the care of his surviving friend for publication. It first appeared in a collection of his works in folio, 1692; and although a subject of universal interest; most admirably elucidated; no edition has been published in a separate form. Antichrist has agitated the Christian world from the earliest ages; and his craft has been to mislead the thoughtless, by …
John Bunyan—The Works of John Bunyan Volumes 1-3 The Providence of God
Q-11: WHAT ARE GOD'S WORKS OF PROVIDENCE? A: God's works of providence are the acts of his most holy, wise, and powerful government of his creatures, and of their actions. Of the work of God's providence Christ says, My Father worketh hitherto and I work.' John 5:17. God has rested from the works of creation, he does not create any new species of things. He rested from all his works;' Gen 2:2; and therefore it must needs be meant of his works of providence: My Father worketh and I work.' His kingdom …
Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity Concerning Christian Liberty
CHRISTIAN faith has appeared to many an easy thing; nay, not a few even reckon it among the social virtues, as it were; and this they do, because they have not made proof of it experimentally, and have never tasted of what efficacy it is. For it is not possible for any man to write well about it, or to understand well what is rightly written, who has not at some time tasted of its spirit, under the pressure of tribulation. While he who has tasted of it, even to a very small extent, can never write, …
Martin Luther—First Principles of the Reformation And for Your Fearlessness against them Hold this Sure Sign -- Whenever There Is...
43. And for your fearlessness against them hold this sure sign--whenever there is any apparition, be not prostrate with fear, but whatsoever it be, first boldly ask, Who art thou? And from whence comest thou? And if it should be a vision of holy ones they will assure you, and change your fear into joy. But if the vision should be from the devil, immediately it becomes feeble, beholding your firm purpose of mind. For merely to ask, Who art thou [1083] ? and whence comest thou? is a proof of coolness. …
Athanasius—Select Works and Letters or Athanasius Isaiah
CHAPTERS I-XXXIX Isaiah is the most regal of the prophets. His words and thoughts are those of a man whose eyes had seen the King, vi. 5. The times in which he lived were big with political problems, which he met as a statesman who saw the large meaning of events, and as a prophet who read a divine purpose in history. Unlike his younger contemporary Micah, he was, in all probability, an aristocrat; and during his long ministry (740-701 B.C., possibly, but not probably later) he bore testimony, as …
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