For the Lord GOD of Hosts will carry out the destruction decreed upon the whole land. For the Lord GOD of HostsThis phrase emphasizes the sovereignty and supreme authority of God. The Hebrew term "Yahweh Sabaoth" is used here, which translates to "Lord of Hosts." This title reflects God's command over the heavenly armies and His ultimate power over all creation. Historically, this title reassures the Israelites of God's ability to protect and deliver them, despite their circumstances. It is a reminder that God is not only a personal deity but also the commander of cosmic forces, underscoring His omnipotence and the futility of opposing His will. will carry out
The phrase indicates the certainty and inevitability of God's actions. The Hebrew verb "asah" conveys the idea of making or doing, suggesting that God's plans are not merely intentions but will be executed with precision. This reflects the biblical theme that God's word does not return void (Isaiah 55:11). It is a call to trust in God's promises and His timing, knowing that what He decrees will come to pass without fail. the destruction decreed
This refers to a specific judgment that God has determined. The Hebrew word "kalah" can mean complete destruction or consumption, indicating the thoroughness of the judgment. The term "decreed" implies a divine decision that is irrevocable. In the context of Isaiah, this destruction is a consequence of the people's disobedience and idolatry. It serves as a sobering reminder of God's justice and the seriousness of sin, while also pointing to the hope of restoration for those who repent. upon the whole land
This phrase signifies the scope of the judgment, which is comprehensive and affects the entire nation. The Hebrew word "eretz" can mean land or earth, and in this context, it refers to the land of Israel. Historically, this prophecy was fulfilled through the Assyrian invasion, which devastated the Northern Kingdom. It serves as a warning of the consequences of turning away from God, but also as a call to national repentance and renewal. The phrase underscores the biblical principle that God's judgments are both just and redemptive, aiming to bring His people back to Himself. Persons / Places / Events 1. The Lord GOD of HostsThis title emphasizes God's supreme authority and power over all heavenly and earthly armies. It underscores His ability to execute judgment and fulfill His decrees. 2. IsaiahThe prophet who conveyed God's messages to the people of Judah and Israel. His role was to warn, instruct, and offer hope through God's promises. 3. Judah and IsraelThe divided kingdoms of God's chosen people. They were often subjects of God's judgment due to their disobedience and idolatry. 4. AssyriaThe dominant empire during Isaiah's time, used by God as an instrument of judgment against Israel and Judah, but also subject to God's ultimate judgment. 5. The Whole LandRefers to the land of Israel and Judah, indicating the comprehensive nature of God's judgment due to widespread sin and rebellion. Teaching Points God's Sovereignty in JudgmentGod's decrees are final and authoritative. His plans will be accomplished, and His judgments are just and righteous. The Role of ProphecyProphecy serves as both a warning and a guide. It calls for repentance and offers hope for those who turn back to God. The Consequences of DisobediencePersistent disobedience leads to judgment. We must heed God's warnings and align our lives with His will. Hope in God's MercyEven in judgment, God's mercy is evident. He provides opportunities for repentance and restoration. The Importance of Trusting GodTrust in God's plan and timing, even when facing difficult circumstances. His purposes are ultimately for our good and His glory. Bible Study Questions 1. How does understanding God's sovereignty in Isaiah 10:23 impact your view of current world events? 2. In what ways can the warnings in Isaiah 10:23 encourage you to examine your own life for areas of disobedience? 3. How does the concept of God's mercy amidst judgment, as seen in Isaiah 10:23, provide comfort in times of personal trials? 4. What parallels can you draw between the role of Assyria in Isaiah's time and modern-day situations where God might use circumstances to bring about His purposes? 5. How can you apply the lessons from Isaiah 10:23 to strengthen your trust in God's plan for your life, especially when facing uncertainty? Connections to Other Scriptures Romans 9:28Paul references Isaiah's prophecy to illustrate God's decisive and righteous judgment, emphasizing His sovereignty in salvation and judgment. Isaiah 28:22This verse warns against scoffing at God's decrees, reinforcing the certainty and seriousness of His judgments. Jeremiah 30:11God promises to discipline His people but not to make a complete end of them, highlighting His mercy amidst 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 Accomplish, Armies, Carry, Complete, Consumption, Decreed, Destruction, Determined, Execute, Extermination, Full, Hosts, Making, Midst, WhollyDictionary of Bible Themes Isaiah 10:22 1125 God, righteousness Isaiah 10:20-22 4360 sand
7145 remnant 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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