Isaiah 10:10
10 As my hand [yad] hath found [matsa'] the kingdoms [mamlakah] of
the idols, ['eliyl] and whose graven images [paciyl] did excel them of Jerusalem [Yaruwshalaim] and of Samaria; [Shomarown]
KJV-Interlinear
10 "As my
hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater
than those of Jerusalem and Samaria, NASB
The voice and arrogant
boasting of the king of Assyria continues.
The kingdoms of idols is
a reference to the countries that worshipped idols, gods, various deities that
obviously could not and did not protect them.
He presumes that those
idols were more powerful than the idols of Jerusalem and Samaria.
Therefore the final analysis
is that he will attack and defeat and destroy even Samaria and Jerusalem just
as easily and as swiftly as he did all of the other countries. And, there is
not a thing they can do about it. Not
even their gods can defend them.
Here we see with some
clarity, the spiritual situation that existed in Samaria and Judah. The general consensus is that idols were more
prevalent than the one true God, and thus the boasting is true to a point. God was not mentioned as a weak defender,
only the false gods that Israel had adopted were so criticized.
A similar boasting is
made in 2 Kg. 19:12 and Isa. 36:18-20.
The gods cannot and will not protect Israel.
And that is a true statement. Any and all false gods cannot protect anything,
since they are not real.
But Israel had turned their
faith into the worship of false things, and therefore their reliance on the
false things, will gain them only defeat.
That is the principle
taught here. Believe on the false and
get nowhere. Ignore the true and get
nowhere.
Unfortunately most folks never
see that truth until it is too late and they have already lost. That is assuming that they still have eyes
with which to see.
