Isaiah 10:32
in Isaiah 10Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shaketh his hand at the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
KJV
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
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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
Assyria has entered Aiath
on Isaiah 10:28-32
The march traces a real road north of Jerusalem town by town, Aiath, Migron, Michmash and Geba. Each village's fear is named in turn, a line of approach the commentators fix within a single day's march. The catalogue carries no theology, only an army closing the last miles to Nob.
This site's exposition
shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion
Nob, the town of priests in 1 Samuel 22, stood within sight of Jerusalem. Barnes read the halt there as a single day. Matthew Henry set beside it 37:22, where the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head at the Assyrian in return.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
The voice of Sennacherib to his army: take courage: it is yet day enough, to remain in Nobe, which is a village near Jerusalem; as if to say: there is yet enough of the day that we can pitch our tents there, for it had …
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The daughter of Jerusalem, to be even with him, shall shake her head at him, ch. xxxvii. How fatal it would prove, in the issue, to himself. When he shakes his hand at Jerusalem, and is about to lay hands on it, then is God's time to appear against him; for Zion is the place of which God has said, This is my rest for ever; therefore those who threaten it affront God himself.
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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As yet shall he remain at Nob that day,.... The same day he came from Gebim; and proceed no further as yet, but make a short stay, and prepare himself and army to march to Jerusalem the next day: the Jews say (l), that he performed all his journeys in one day; the same day he came to Ajath he came to Nob, where he stayed the remaining part of the day.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
As yet shall he remain - This is still a description of his advancing toward Jerusalem. He would make a station at Nob and remain there a day, meaning, perhaps, “only” one day, such would be his impatience to attack and destroy Jerusalem. At Nob - Nob was a city of Benjamin, inhabited by priests; Neh 11:32. When David was driven away by Saul, he came to this city, and received supplies from Ahimelech the priest; 1Sa 21:1-6. Nob must have been situated somewhere upon the ridge of the mount of Olives, to the northeast of the city.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
that day--literally, "As yet this (one only) day (is allowed to the soldiers) for remaining (halting for rest) at Nob"; northeast of Jerusalem on Olivet; a town of the priests (Ne 11:32). daughter--rightly substituted for the Chetib reading, house. His "shaking his hand" in menace implies that he is now at Nob, within sight of Jerusalem.
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The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ע֥וֹד | od | yet | H5750 → | 490 times |
| הַיּ֖וֹם | haiyom | this day | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| בְּנֹ֣ב | beno | at Nob | H5011 → | |
| לַֽעֲמֹ֑ד | laamod | to stand | H5975 → | 521 times |
| יְנֹפֵ֤ף | yenofef | he will shake | H5130 → | 37 times |
| יָדוֹ֙ | yado | hand his | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| הַ֣ר | har | [the] mountain of | H2022 → | 546 times |
| בַּת | beit- | [the] daughter of | H1323 → | 588 times |
| צִיּ֔וֹן | tziyon | Zion | H6726 → | 154 times |
| גִּבְעַ֖ת | givat | [the] hill of | H1389 → | 68 times |
| יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ ס | yerushalim | Jerusalem | H3389 → | 643 times |
ע֥וֹדyet
odH5750 →490 times
הַיּ֖וֹםthis day
haiyomH3117 →2304 times
בְּנֹ֣בat Nob
benoH5011 →
לַֽעֲמֹ֑דto stand
laamodH5975 →521 times
יְנֹפֵ֤ףhe will shake
yenofefH5130 →37 times
יָדוֹ֙hand his
yadoH3027 →1618 times
הַ֣ר[the] mountain of
harH2022 →546 times
בַּת[the] daughter of
beit-H1323 →588 times
צִיּ֔וֹןZion
tziyonH6726 →154 times
גִּבְעַ֖ת[the] hill of
givatH1389 →68 times
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ סJerusalem
yerushalimH3389 →643 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 21:1Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
it leads to
- Nehemiah 11:32
in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- Mark 2:26
During the high priesthood of Abiathar, he entered the house of God and ate the consecrated bread, which was lawful only for the priests. And he gave some to his companions as well.”
- 1 Samuel 14:3
including Ahijah, who was wearing an ephod. He was the son of Ichabod’s brother Ahitub son of Phinehas, the son of Eli the priest of the LORD in Shiloh. But the troops did not…
- 1 Samuel 16:4
So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
- Nehemiah 11:32
Through
Zechariah 2:9I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
it leads to
- Isaiah 19:16
In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
- Isaiah 19:16
Through
Isaiah 19:16In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
it leads to
- Nahum 3:13
Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
- Jeremiah 51:30
The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Nahum 3:13
Through
1 Samuel 22:19He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 15:3
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and…
- 1 Samuel 15:3
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
3 names in this verse with a page on the site.
- PlaceBenjaminNobThe town of the priests near Jerusalem where David ate the showbread, the precedent Jesus cited, and which Saul put to the sword.
- PlaceJerusalemZionThe eastern ridge David took from the Jebusites and made his stronghold, the name the Psalms and the prophets give the city the LO…
- PlaceJerusalemJerusalemThe city David took from the Jebusites and made his capital, where Solomon built the temple, where Christ was crucified and rose,…
This page draws on 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.
