Isaiah 10:28
in Isaiah 10Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;
KJV
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
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This verse in Isaiah 10
Commentary
9 notes on this verse(Verse 28 and following) He will come to Aiath, he will pass through Migron: at Machmas he will deposit his baggage. They went with haste to Geba, our city (or as we find elsewhere written: they stayed at the lodging place); Ramah was astonished, Gibeah of Saul fled. Cry out with your voice, daughter of Gallim; listen, Laishah, poor Anathoth: Medemena has taken flight; the inhabitants of Gebim, gather yourselves together. There is still a day, to stand at Nob: he will shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
This site's exposition
He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron
on Isaiah 10:28-32
The march that follows traces a real road north of Jerusalem, town by town, Aiath, Migron, Michmash where the carriages are laid up, the passage crossed, lodging taken at Geba, until Ramah is afraid and Gibeah of Saul has already fled. Each village's fear is named in turn, Gallim's voice lifted up, poor Anathoth, Madmenah removed, Gebim gathering to flee, a geography close enough to Jerusalem that the older commentators use it to fix the invader's line of approach within a single day's march. The catalogue is restrained on purpose, no theology attached to the town names, only the plain fact of an army closing the last few miles on the city.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
He shall come into Aiath. Here their escape is described in particular. And first, the oppression is set out, numbering the cities through which he passed coming from Egypt to Jerusalem: he shall come from Egypt, into Aiath, he shall pass, in haste, into Magron; …
The Puritans and the Awakening4 voices
Whether they were the princes and judges of Israel of Judah, or both, that the prophet denounced this woe against, is not certain: if those of Israel, these verses are to be joined with the close of the foregoing chapter, which is probable enough, because the burden of that prophecy ( for all this his anger is not turned away ) is repeated here (
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He - Here the prophet returns to the Assyrian invasion; which he describes, after the manner of the prophets, as a thing present, and sets down the several stages by which he marched towards Jerusalem. He, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, is come, in his way to Jerusalem.
He is come to Aiath,....
"This and the other place he has made himself master of, and has met with no opposition." At Michmash he has laid up his carriages, as if he had no further occasion for his heavy artillery, so easily was every place he came to reduced; or the store-cities of Judah, which were fortified for that purpose, had now become his magazines.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
He is come to Aiath - A description of the march of Sennacherib’s army approaching Jerusalem in order to invest it, and of the terror and confusion spreading and increasing through the several places as he advanced; expressed with great brevity, but finely diversified. The places here mentioned are all in the neighborhood of Jerusalem; from Ai northward, to Nob westward of it; from which last place he might probably have a prospect of Mount Sion. Anathoth was within three Roman miles of Jerusalem, according to Eusebius, Jerome and Josephus. Onomast. Loc. Hebr. et Antiq. Jud. 10:7,
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
He is come to Aiath - These verses Isa 10:28-32 contain a description of the march of the army of Sennacherib as he approached Jerusalem to invest it. The description is expressed with great beauty. It is rapid and hurried, and is such as one would give who was alarmed by the sudden and near approach of an enemy - as if while the narrator was stating that the invader had arrived at one place, he had already come to another; or, as if while one messenger should say, that he had come to one place, another should answer that he was still nearer, and a third, that he was nearer still, so as to produce universal consternation. The prophet speaks of this as if he “saw” it (compare the note at Isa. 1): as if, with the glance of the eye, he sees Sennacherib advancing rapidly to Jerusalem. The general course of this march is from the northeast to the southwest toward Jerusalem, and it is possible still to follow the route by the names of the places here mentioned, and which remain at present. All the places are in the vicinity of Jerusalem, and this shows how much his rapid approach was suited to excite alarm. The name עית ‛ayâth does not occur elsewhere; but עי ‛ay is often mentioned, and עיא ‛ayâ' is found in Neh 11:31. Doubtless, the same city is meant. It was situated near Bethel eastward; Jos 7:2. It was at this place that Joshua was repulsed on account of the sin of Achaz, though the city was afterward taken by Joshua, the king seized and hanged, and the city destroyed. It was afterward rebuilt, and is often mentioned; Ezr 2:28; Neh 7:32. It is called by the Septuagint, Ἀγγαι Angai; and by Josephus, “Aina.” In the time of Eusebius and Jerome, its site and scanty ruins were still pointed out, not far distant from Bethel toward the east. The name, however, has at present wholly perished, and no trace of the place now remains. […]
The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| בָּ֥א | ba' | he has come | H935 → | 2568 times |
| עַל־ | ʾal- | to | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| עַיַּ֖ת | ʾaiyat | Aiath | H5857 → | |
| עָבַ֣ר | ʾavar | he has passed | H5674 → | 556 times |
| בְּמִגְר֑וֹן | bemigron | in Migron | H4051 → | |
| לְמִכְמָ֖שׂ | lemikhmas | to Micmash | H4363 → | |
| יַפְקִ֥יד | yafkid | he deposits | H6485 → | 303 times |
| כֵּלָֽיו׃ | kelav | baggage<s> his | H3627 → | 325 times |
בָּ֥אhe has come
ba'H935 →2568 times
עַל־to
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
עַיַּ֖תAiath
ʾaiyatH5857 →
עָבַ֣רhe has passed
ʾavarH5674 →556 times
בְּמִגְר֑וֹןin Migron
bemigronH4051 →
לְמִכְמָ֖שׂto Micmash
lemikhmasH4363 →
יַפְקִ֥ידhe deposits
yafkidH6485 →303 times
כֵּלָֽיו׃baggage<s> his
kelavH3627 →325 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 Samuel 14:31That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
it leads to
- Joshua 10:12
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley…
- Joshua 10:12
Through
1 Samuel 13:2He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And…
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 10:26
Saul also went to his home in Gibeah, and the men of valor whose hearts God had touched went with him.
- 1 Samuel 13:5
Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…
- 1 Samuel 14:31
That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
- 1 Samuel 10:26
Through
1 Samuel 13:5Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of…
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 14:23
So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.
- Joshua 11:4
So these kings came out with all their armies, a multitude as numerous as the sand on the seashore, along with a great number of horses and chariots.
- Joshua 18:12
On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
- 1 Samuel 14:23
Through
1 Samuel 14:2Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 13:15–16
Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.
- 1 Samuel 13:15–16
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.