Isaia 36:10

10 E d’altronde è egli forse senza il voler dell’Eterno ch’io son salito contro questo paese per distruggerlo? E’ stato l’Eterno che m’ha detto: Sali contro questo paese e distruggilo!"

Isaia 36:10 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 36:10

And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to
destroy it?
&c.] He would insinuate that he had a commission from the Lord God, and that it was by his will and order that he came up to destroy the land; which he said to intimidate Hezekiah and his subjects, as knowing that nothing was more likely to do it than that so far it was true, that he did not come up without the knowledge of the Lord, nor without his will to chastise, but not to destroy, as the event showed: the Lord said unto me:
by the impulse of his Spirit, or by one of his prophets, as he would suggest: go up against this land, and destroy it;
which was a lie of his own making; he knew that the Lord had said no such thing to him, nor had sent him on such an errand; unless he concluded it from his success in taking the fenced cities of Judah, and from Samaria, and the ten tribes, being delivered up in time past into the hands of the king of Assyria, and so was confident this would be the fate of Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaia 36:10 In-Context

8 Or dunque fa’ una scommessa col mio signore, il re d’Assiria: io ti darò duemila cavalli, se tu puoi fornire tanti cavalieri da montarli.

9 E come potresti tu far voltar le spalle a un solo capitano fra i minimi servi del mio signore? Ma tu confidi nell’Egitto per avere de’ carri e dei cavalieri.

10 E d’altronde è egli forse senza il voler dell’Eterno ch’io son salito contro questo paese per distruggerlo? E’ stato l’Eterno che m’ha detto: Sali contro questo paese e distruggilo!"

11 Allora Eliakim, Scebna e Joah dissero a Rabshake: "Deh! parla ai tuoi servi in lingua aramaica, poiché noi la intendiamo; e non in lingua giudaica, in guisa che il popolo ch’è sulle mura l’oda".

12 Ma Rabshake rispose: "Il mio signore m’ha egli forse mandato a dire queste parole al tuo signore e a te? Non m’ha egli mandato a dirle a questi uomini che stanno sulle mura, e che presto saran ridotti a mangiare i loro escrementi e a bere la loro orina con voi?"