Yeshayah 10:8

8 For he saith, Are not my sarim altogether melachim?

Yeshayah 10:8 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:8

For he saith, [are] not my princes altogether kings?
] Meaning either the kings which he had conquered, which were become his princes and subjects; or rather, such were the greatness and glory of his nobles, that they were equal in their riches and dominions to kings, and so were able to furnish him with men and money for such an expedition he had in his heart to undertake, even to conquer and subdue all the nations of the earth: and this he said either to his people, boasting of his grandeur; or in his heart, as Kimchi observes, to encourage himself; or rather more openly before others, in order to discourage and inject terror into the nations he meant to destroy, and particularly the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Yeshayah 10:8 In-Context

6 I will send him against a Goy Chanef, and against the people of My wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the plunder, and to tread them down like the chomer chutzot (mire of the streets).

7 But he intendeth not so, neither doth his mind so consider; but it is in his lev to make an end of Goyim not a few.

8 For he saith, Are not my sarim altogether melachim?

9 Is not Calno like Carkemish? Is not Chamat like Arpad? Is not Shomron like Damascus?

10 Just as my yad hath found the mamlechot haelil, whose pesilim (molten images) did excel them of Yerushalayim and of Shomron;