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**write** = ordain, or register; legalize iniquities.
**grievousness** = oppression.
**prescribed** = written.

**poor** = Hebrew. *'ani.* See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) .

**desolation** = storm.
**leave** = secure, or put in safe keeping. Hebrew. *'azab,* a *Homonym* with two meanings. See note on [Exodus 23:5](../../../kjv/exodus/23/5) .
**glory** = honour.

**bow down under the prisoners** = captives will be enough to make you bow down.
**fall under the slain** = mortally wounded ones [will be enough] to make you fall.
**For, &c.** See note on [Isaiah 9:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/12) .

**O Assyrian.** Not woe to the Assyrian. That woe comes later (Compare [Isaiah 17:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/17/12) , and [Isaiah 33:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/33/1) ), after the latest woes on Ephraim and Judah. This is a Divine summons.
**Assyrian.** The monuments tell us that this was Sargon, the father of Sennacherib.

**hypocritical** = impious, profane, godless, ' or irreligious. Compare [Isaiah 9:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/17) with [Isaiah 33:14](../../../kjv/isaiah/33/14) , the only other occurance in Isaiah.

**he meaneth not so** = will not mean. The blindness of the instrument emphasizes the truth of the prophecy.
**think so** = so intend.

**he saith** = he will say.
**altogether** = all of them.

**As** = According as.
**idols** = nothings.

**idols** = effigies.

**Wherefore** = And.

**people** = peoples.

**found as a nest.** Supply the Ellipsis thus: "found [means to reach] as a nest". peeped. See note on [Isaiah 8:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/19) .

**boast itself.** Hebrew. *pa'ar.* Not therefore peculiar to the "latter" portion of Isaiah ([Isaiah 44:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/23) , &c), as alleged.
**shake itself against** = brandish.
**lift up itself, as if it were no wood** = raise him that lifteth it up.
**no wood:** i.e. the user of it (who is flesh and blood, not wood).

**kindle. burning** = be like a burning. Note the Figure of speech *Paronomasia* ( App-6 ). Hebrew. *yekad yekod kikod =* kindle. kindling. kindling.

**in one day.** So it was ([2 Kings 19:35](../../../kjv/2-kings/19/35) ),

**body** = flesh. Put by Figure of speech *Synecdoche* (of Part), App-6 , for the whole body.

**child** = lad.
**write** = reckon.

**that day.** Passing on to the final fulfilment in the day of the LORD.
**the house of Jacob.** See note on [Isaiah 2:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/5) .
**the Holy One of Israel.** See note on [Isaiah 1:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/4) .
**in truth.** Hebrew. *be'emeth.* Occurs three times in the "former" portion (here; [Isaiah 16:5](../../../kjv/isaiah/16/5) ; [Isaiah 38:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/38/3) ); and twice in the "latter" portion ([Isaiah 48:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/48/1) ; [Isaiah 61:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/8) ). See App-79 .

**The remnant shall return.** Hebrew. *Shear-jashub* . See [Isaiah 7:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/7/3) . So they did. Compare [2 Chronicles 30:1-13](../../../kjv/2-chronicles/30/1-13) , esp. [Isaiah 10:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/6) .

**though, &c.** Quoted in [Romans 9:27](../../../kjv/romans/9/27) , [Romans 9:28](../../../kjv/romans/9/28) .
**as the sand, &c.** Figure of speech *Paraemia* . Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 22:17](../../../kjv/genesis/22/17) ; [Genesis 32:12](../../../kjv/genesis/32/12) , &c).
**consumption** = full end, or finish. Hebrew. *killayon.* Reference to Pentateuch. Occurs only here, and [Deuteronomy 28:65](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/65) . App-92 .
**with** = in.

**consumption** = consummation. Hebrew. *kalfih,*
**determined** = decreed.
**all.** Some codices, with five early printed editions, omit "all".

**smite thee with** = smite thee [indeed] with, &c.
**rod** = club.

**anger** = anger [shall cease].

**according to** = like.
**Midian.** Compare [Isaiah 9:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/9/4) , and [Judges 7:25](../../../kjv/judges/7/25) .

**shall be destroyed** = will rot.
**because of the anointing** = before the face (at the sight) of the oil: i.e. in Gideon's lamps; and of the anointed One (Messiah).

**He is come.** This is a prophetic description of Sennacherib's advance against Judah.
**Aiath** = Ai: now *et Tell,* or *Khan Haiyan.*
**laid up.** In anticipation of a speedy conquest of Jerusalem.
**carriages** = baggage (Old English). Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Adjunct) for what is carried.

**the passage** = the ravine: i.e. Wady *Suweinit.* Compare lSamaritan Pentateuch Isa 13:23 .
**Geba.** Now *Jeb'a,* near Michmash. Eamah. Now *er Ram,* five miles north of Jerusalem.
**Gibeah.** Now *Tell el Ful,* between Jerusalem and Emmaus, two and a half miles north of Jerusalem.

**Gallim.** Not identified. Probably *Beitfala'* near Bethlehem.
**Laish.** Not Laish in the tribe of Dan. Anathoth. Now *'Anata.* Three miles north-east of Jerusalem.

**Madmenah.** Not identified. A town of Benjamin, near Jerusalem. See note on [Isaiah 25:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/25/10) .
**Gebim.** Not identified. North of Jerusalem.

**Nob.** A city of the priests, in sight of Jerusalem, from whence Sennacherib shook his hand against the city. Nob only a half day's journey from Jerusalem.

**forest.** Authorized Version, edition 1611, reads., "forests" (plural) These are Sennacherib's own figures of himself. See [2 Kings 19:23](../../../kjv/2-kings/19/23) . Compare [Isaiah 29:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/29/17) . [Ezekiel 31:3-8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/31/3-8) . Note the contrast in [Isaiah 11:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/1) .

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