[[Isa-10]] Prev: [[Prophecies in Isa-09]] | Next: [[Prophecies in Isa-11]] --- ### Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation! I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets. *Type*: fulfillment *Summary*: The text describes the Assyrian Empire as the instrument of God's judgment against Israel and Judah, realizing the threats of invasion made in previous chapters. *Historical context*: This reflects the historical expansion of the Neo-Assyrian Empire into the Levant, including the fall of Samaria in 722 BC and the subsequent invasion of Judah by Sennacherib in 701 BC. *Related to*: [[Isa-07#v17|Isaiah 7:17]], [[Isa-08#v7|Isaiah 8:7]]-8 ### Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: God predicts that after using the King of Assyria to discipline Jerusalem, He will judge the king himself for his pride and arrogance. *Historical context*: Historically, after the failed siege of Jerusalem in 701 BC, Sennacherib returned to Nineveh where he was eventually assassinated by two of his sons, Adrammelek and Sharezer, in 681 BC (recorded in [[2 Kings-19#v36|2 Kings 19:36]]-37). *Related to*: ### Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire. The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: A prediction of a sudden and massive destruction of the Assyrian military force, described as a consuming fire that acts in a single day. *Historical context*: The biblical and historical record in [[2 Kings-19#v35|2 Kings 19:35]] and [[Isa-37#v36|Isaiah 37:36]] describes the sudden death of 185,000 Assyrian soldiers in a single night outside Jerusalem, halting their campaign. *Related to*: ### A remnant will return, even the remnant of Jacob, to the mighty God. For though your people, Israel, are like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will return. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: Isaiah predicts that despite the vast numbers of the people, only a small portion (a remnant) will survive the coming destructions and return to a faithful relationship with God. *Historical context*: This was fulfilled through the survival of a remnant in Judah during the Assyrian crisis and more significantly during the return of the Jews from Babylonian exile starting in 538 BC under the decree of Cyrus the Great. It is also cited in [[Rom-09#v27|Romans 9:27]] regarding the spiritual remnant of Israel. *Related to*: ### This very day he will halt at Nob. He shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low. *Type*: prophecy *Summary*: The prophecy details the Assyrian army's final approach to the very gates of Jerusalem (Nob), but predicts that at that moment, God will intervene to strike them down. *Historical context*: During Sennacherib's 701 BC campaign, the Assyrian army reached the outskirts of Jerusalem and mocked King Hezekiah and Yahweh, but the siege was miraculously broken before the city was breached, as predicted. *Related to*: --- #ai_prophecy