Isaiah 10:32

32 This day the army will stop at Nob. They will shake their fist at Mount Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10:32 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:32

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 F12, 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. Nob was a city of the priests, ( 1 Samuel 22:19 ) and so it is called in the Targum here; it was so near Jerusalem, that, as Jarchi and Kimchi say, it might be seen from hence; wherefore here he stood, in sight of Jerusalem; against the wall of it, the Targum says; and did as follows:

he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem;
threatening what he would do to it, and despising it as unable to hold out against him; or the sense is this, yet a day, or in a day's time, from the last place where he was; he shall come to Nob, and there shall he stop, and go no further: or, "the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem, shall shake its hand"; bidding him defiance, insulting over him, or rejoicing at the fall of the Assyrian army. Wherefore it follows:


FOOTNOTES:

F12 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 1.

Isaiah 10:32 In-Context

30 Cry out, Bath Gallim! Laishah, listen!
31 The people of Madmenah are running away; the people of Gebim are hiding.
32 This day the army will stop at Nob. They will shake their fist at Mount Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
33 Watch! The Lord God All-Powerful with his great power will chop them down like a great tree. Those who are great will be cut down; those who are important will fall to the ground.
34 He will cut them down as a forest is cut down with an ax. will fall by the power of the Mighty One.
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