Isaiah 10:30
in Isaiah 10Cry aloud, O Daughter of Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! O wretched Anathoth!
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ASV
Cry aloud with thy voice, O daughter of Gallim! hearken, O Laishah! O thou poor Anathoth!
KJV
Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
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This verse in Isaiah 10
Commentary
8 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
Whinny, in the manner of horses; attend, O Laisa, how you may flee, and similarly, you, poor Anathoth, for it was a little village.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Lift up that voice, O daughter of Gallim,.... In a mournful and lamentable manner, and yet with such a clear loud voice, as to be heard afar off: the word is sometimes used for making a joyful sound, and of the neighing of horses. The inhabitants of Gallim are meant by its daughter; of this place was Phalti, who married Michal, Saul's daughter; very probably it was in the tribe of Benjamin. Jerom (f) makes mention of Accaron, a village, which was called Gallim.
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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The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anothoth “Hearken unto her, O Laish; answer her, O Anathoth!” - I follow in this the Syriac Version. The prophet plainly alludes to the name of the place, and with a peculiar propriety, if it had its name frown its remarkable echo. “ענתות anathoth, responsiones: eadem ratio nominis, quae in בית ענת beith anath, locus echus; nam hodienum ejus rudera ostenduntur in valle, scil. in medio montium, ut referent Robertus in Itiner. p. 70, et Monconnysius, p. 301.” Simonis Onomasticon Vet. Test. - L.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
"Cry aloud in consternation." Laish--not the town in Dan (Jud 18:7), but one of the same name near Jerusalem (1 Maccabees 9:9). Anathoth--three miles from Jerusalem in Benjamin; the birthplace of Jeremiah. "Poor" is applied to it in pity, on account of the impending calamity.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Lift up thy voice - That is, cry aloud from alarm and terror. The prophet here changes the manner of describing the advance of Sennacherib. He had described his rapid march from place to place Isa 10:28-29, and the consternation at Ramah and Gibeah; he now changes the mode of description, and calls on Gallim to lift up her voice of alarm at the approach of the army, so that it might reverberate among the hills, and be heard by neighboring towns. Daughter - A term often applied to a beautiful city or town; see the note at Isa 1:8. Gallim - This was a city of Benjamin, north of Jerusalem. It is mentioned only in this place and in 1Sa 25:44. No traces of this place are now to be found. Cause it to be heard - That is, cause thy voice to be heard. Raise the cry of distress and alarm. Unto Laish - There was a city of this name in the northern part of Palestine, in the bounds of the tribe of Dan; Jdg 18:7, Jdg 18:29. But it is contrary to all the circumstances of the case to suppose, that the prophet refers to a place in the north of Palestine. It was probably a small village in the neighborhood of Gallim. There are at present no traces of the village; in 1 Macc. 9:9, a city of this name is mentioned in the vicinity of Jerusalem, which is, doubtless, the one here referred to. O poor Anathoth - Anathoth was a city of Benjamin Jos 21:18, where Jeremiah was born; Jer 1:1. ‘Anata, which is, doubtless, the same place here intended, is situated on a broad ridge of land, at the distance of one hour and a quarter, or about three miles, from Jerusalem. Josephus describes Anathoth as twenty stadia distant from Jerusalem (Ant. x. 7, 3); and Eusebius and Jerome mention it as about three miles to the north of the city. ‘Anata appears to have been once a walled town, and a place of strength. […]
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| צַהֲלִ֥י | tzahali | cry aloud | H6670 → | 9 times |
| קוֹלֵ֖ךְ | kolekh | voice your | H6963 → | 506 times |
| בַּת־ | bat- | O daughter of | H1323 → | 588 times |
| גַּלִּ֑ים | galim | Gallim | H1554 → | |
| הַקְשִׁ֥יבִי | hakshivi | pay attention | H7181 → | 46 times |
| לַ֖יְשָׁה | layshah | O Laishah | H3919 → | |
| עֲנִיָּ֥ה | ʾaniyah | O afflicted [one] | H6041 → | 73 times |
| עֲנָתֽוֹת׃ | anatot | Anathoth | H6068 → |
צַהֲלִ֥יcry aloud
tzahaliH6670 →9 times
קוֹלֵ֖ךְvoice your
kolekhH6963 →506 times
בַּת־O daughter of
bat-H1323 →588 times
גַּלִּ֑יםGallim
galimH1554 →
הַקְשִׁ֥יבִיpay attention
hakshiviH7181 →46 times
לַ֖יְשָׁהO Laishah
layshahH3919 →
עֲנִיָּ֥הO afflicted [one]
ʾaniyahH6041 →73 times
עֲנָתֽוֹת׃Anathoth
anatotH6068 →
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
Jeremiah 1:1These are the words of Jeremiah son of Hilkiah, one of the priests in Anathoth in the territory of Benjamin.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 6:60
And from the tribe of Benjamin they were given Gibeon, Geba, Alemeth, and Anathoth, together with their pasturelands. So they had thirteen cities in all among their families.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- 1 Chronicles 6:60
Through
Judges 18:29They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
it leads to
- Joshua 19:47
(Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there,…
- 1 Kings 15:20
And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.
- Genesis 14:14
And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.
- Joshua 19:47
Through
Jeremiah 32:8Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 32:7
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
- Jeremiah 32:2
At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of…
- Jeremiah 33:1
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
- 1 Kings 22:25
Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”
- Jeremiah 32:7
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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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.