Teks -- Isaiah 10:34 (NET)

10:34 The thickets of the forest will be chopped down with an ax, and mighty Lebanon will fall.

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Wesley: Isa 10:34 - Iron

Or, as with iron, as the trees of the forest are cut down with instruments of iron.

Wesley: Isa 10:34 - Lebanon

Or, his Lebanon, the Assyrian army, which being before compared to a forest, and being called his Carmel in the Hebrew text, Isa 10:18, may very fitly upon the same ground, be called his Lebanon here.

JFB: Isa 10:34

This verse and Isa 10:33 describe the sudden arrest and overthrow of Sennacherib in the height of his success; Isa 10:18-19; Eze 31:3, Eze 31:14, &c., contain the same image; "Lebanon" and its forest are the Assyrian army; the "iron" axe that fells the forest refers to the stroke which destroyed the one hundred and eighty-five thousand Assyrians (2Ki 19:35). The "Mighty One" is Jehovah (Isa 10:21; Isa 9:6).

JFB: Isa 10:34 - From the local and temporary national deliverance the prophet passes by the law of suggestion in an easy transition to the end of all prophecy

The everlasting deliverance under Messiah's reign, not merely His first coming, but chiefly His second coming. The language and illustrations are still drawn from the temporary national subject, with which he began, but the glories described pertain to Messiah's reign. Hezekiah cannot, as some think, be the subject; for he was already come, whereas the "stem of Jesse" was yet future ("shall come") (compare Mic 4:11, &c.; Mic 5:1-2; Jer 23:5-6; Jer 33:15-16; Rom 15:12).

Clarke: Isa 10:34 - Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one

Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one - באדיר beaddir , the angel of the Lord, who smote them, Kimchi. And so Vitringa understands it. Others translate, "The high cedars of Lebanon shall fall:"but the king of Assyria is the person who shall be overthrown.

Calvin: Isa 10:34 - And he will cut down the thick places of the forest with iron // And Lebanon will fall violently

34.And he will cut down the thick places of the forest with iron There is no difficulty in explaining this metaphor, for it is plain enough that by tall and high trees is denoted all that is powerful, excellent, or lofty. Thus he foretells the destruction and ruin of Judea, which he compares to the cutting down of a forest; by which he means that there is nothing so valuable that the enemies will not destroy it, till they have stripped the whole land of its ornaments.

And Lebanon will fall violently He mentions Lebanon, because that mountain, as we all know, was highly celebrated for fruitful and highly valuable trees. Now, if he had been speaking of the Assyrians, it would not have been appropriate to introduce the destruction of Lebanon. Hence we infer that the Prophet, in this passage, again threatens the Jews; and this agrees well with the introduction of the discourse, for it begins with a word which calls attention, Behold.

TSK: Isa 10:34 - cut down // Lebanon // by a mighty one

cut down : Isa 10:18, Isa 37:24; Jer 22:7, Jer 46:22, Jer 46:23, Jer 48:2; Nah 1:12

Lebanon : Zec 11:1, Zec 11:2

by a mighty one : or, mightily, Isa 31:8, Isa 37:36; Psa 103:20; Dan 4:13, Dan 4:14, Dan 4:23; 2Th 1:7; 2Pe 2:11; Rev 10:1; Rev 18:21

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Poole: Isa 10:34 - With iron // And Lebanon // By a mighty one

With iron or, as with iron , as the trees of the forest are cut down by instruments of iron.

And Lebanon or, his Lebanon , the pronoun being oft understood in the Hebrew text; the Assyrian army, which being before compared to a forest or wood, and being called his Carmel in the Hebrew text, Isa 10:18 , may very fitly, upon the same ground, be called his Lebanon here; especially considering that the king of Assyria is called a cedar of Lebanon, Eze 31:3 .

By a mighty one by a mighty angel, Isa 37:36 .

Gill: Isa 10:34 - And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron // and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest with iron,.... The multitude of the common soldiers, the whole body of the army, by means of one of his angels, that excel in strength, for which he is compared to "iron"; and which is explained in the next clause:

and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one; the Assyrian army is compared to the forest of Lebanon, for the multitude of trees in it, and the tallness of its cedars, it abounding not only with common soldiers, but with great men; so it is compared to a forest, and to Carmel, or a fruitful field, in Isa 10:18 and the Assyrian monarch is said to be a cedar in Lebanon, Eze 31:3 which fell by the hands of one of the mighty angels, 2Ki 19:35 some, because of this last clause, think that this and the preceding verse Isa 10:33 are to be understood of the calamities that should come upon the Jews, at the time of the Babylonish captivity; for though Sennacherib should stop at Nob; and proceed no further, however should not be able to take Jerusalem, yet hereafter a successor of his should; and, according to this sense, by the "bough" lopped may be meant Jeconiah, or Zedekiah king of Judah; by the "high ones of stature", and the "haughty" ones, his children, the princes of the blood, and the nobles of the land; and by the "thickets of the forest", the common people, who were either killed or carried captive; and by Lebanon, the temple, Zec 11:1 and by the "mighty one", Nebuchadnezzar that burnt it. And some of the ancient Jews interpret this last clause of the destruction of the temple by Vespasian; they observe upon this passage in one place ^m, there is no mighty one but a king, as in Jer 30:21 and there is no Lebanon but the house of the sanctuary, according to Deu 3:25 wherefore when a certain Jew saluted Vespasian as a king, and he replied that he was no king, the Jew made answer, if thou art not a king, thou shall be one; for this house (meaning the temple) shall not be destroyed but by the hands of a king, as it is said, "and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one" ⁿ.