Isaia 10:10

10 Siccome la mia mano ha ritrovati i regni degl’idoli, le cui sculture erano in maggior numero, e di più valore, che quelle di Gerusalemme e di Samaria;

Isaia 10:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:10

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols
Which worship idols, as the Targum paraphrases it. He speaks of them as being very easily taken by him; he had no trouble in subduing them; no sooner did he come up to them, and looked on them, and saw where they were, but they fell into his hands; they gave up themselves to him at once, and he took possession of them. And whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
being made of better metal, or more richly ornamented, or worshipped in a more pompous manner; or were "more" than they of Jerusalem and Samaria, exceeded them in number; or were "stronger" and mightier than they, as Kimchi supplies it, and yet could not protect them; or were "from Jerusalem, and from Samaria"; the wicked men of Israel, Jarchi says, supplied all the nations with images, they all sprung from them; and if the idols which came from hence could not secure the nations of the earth from falling into the hands of the Assyrian monarch, neither could they preserve Jerusalem and Samaria from being taken by him.

Isaia 10:10 In-Context

8 Perciocchè dirà: I miei principi non son eglino re tutti quanti?
9 Non è Calno come Carchemis? non è Hamat come Arpad? non è Samaria come Damasco?
10 Siccome la mia mano ha ritrovati i regni degl’idoli, le cui sculture erano in maggior numero, e di più valore, che quelle di Gerusalemme e di Samaria;
11 non farei io a Gerusalemme, ed a’ suoi idoli, come ho fatto a Samaria, ed a’ suoi idoli?
12 Egli avverrà dunque, quando il Signore avrà compiuta tutta l’opera sua nel monte di Sion, ed in Gerusalemme, che io farò, dice egli, la punizione del frutto della grandigia del cuore del re degli Assiri, e della gloria dell’alterezza degli occhi suoi.
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