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Isaiah 10:32

in Isaiah 10

Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

BSB

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.

This verse in Isaiah 10

Commentary

9 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

(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

A commentator

Thomas Aquinas

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 1274.

proposed

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

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

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.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

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

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 & Brown

1802–1910

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 words

Every 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.

  • 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 stops

Each 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 21:1

    Then 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?”

  • Through

    Zechariah 2:9

    I 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.

  • Through

    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.

    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.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 22:19

    He 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…

Where this verse is studied

About Isaiah

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.