Post by Lee on Sept 13, 2014 15:50:00 GMT
In the concluding verses of Isaiah 10. the prophet sees by the Spirit the advance of the Assyrian upon Jerusalem. The rendering of the Revised Version presents the picture in a very graphic manner. The country through which he passed, with the places on his line of march, was a scene of stirring associations. It was here that Abraham sojourned among the Canaanites, received the promise and built an altar unto the Lord (Gen. 12:8). Here Jacob, departing to Padan Aram, dreamed of the ladder that connected the place with heaven, and upon which the angels ascended and descended (Gen. 28.). Here Israel “fled before the men of Ai” because of God’s displeasure concerning Achan, “the troubler of Israel,” and the city was afterwards subdued and destroyed by Joshua (Josh. 8.). Migron and Michmash figure in the history of Saul’s transgression, when he “forced himself and offered a burnt offering,” and in the account of the extraordinary smiting of the Philistines by Jonathan and his armour bearer (1 Sam. 13:14.).
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At Nob, however, the divine command was: Halt! “This very day shall he halt at Nob” (5:32 R. V.). Nob is not certainly identified; but it seem to have been situated about two miles north of Jerusalem. It was a Levitical city, the place where David ate the shew bread, and the scene of the slaying of the Lord’s priests by Saul. If Shafat be the site, it is on the main road to Jerusalem from the north, and about two miles distant from the city, which is visible from it. Here the Assyrian was to camp and “shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.” The history of the fulfilment of the prophecy shortly afterwards, in Hezekiah’s days, is recorded in 2 Kings 19., and incorporated in Isaiah 36. and 37. At that time, God consoled Hezekiah by an assurance of deliverance from the invader, and a sentence of judgment upon the boastful king: “He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bauk against it.” And so it came to pass; for, without striking a blow, he left the dead bodies of his host of 185,000 men, slain by the angel of the Lord “that night,” and returned in disguise to Nineveh, where he was slain by his own sons in the presence of his god Nisroch, in whose strength he trusted to prevail against “the God of Jerusalem.”
. Vol. 36: The Christadelphian: Volume 36. 2001 (electronic ed.) (441–442). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.
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At Nob, however, the divine command was: Halt! “This very day shall he halt at Nob” (5:32 R. V.). Nob is not certainly identified; but it seem to have been situated about two miles north of Jerusalem. It was a Levitical city, the place where David ate the shew bread, and the scene of the slaying of the Lord’s priests by Saul. If Shafat be the site, it is on the main road to Jerusalem from the north, and about two miles distant from the city, which is visible from it. Here the Assyrian was to camp and “shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.” The history of the fulfilment of the prophecy shortly afterwards, in Hezekiah’s days, is recorded in 2 Kings 19., and incorporated in Isaiah 36. and 37. At that time, God consoled Hezekiah by an assurance of deliverance from the invader, and a sentence of judgment upon the boastful king: “He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bauk against it.” And so it came to pass; for, without striking a blow, he left the dead bodies of his host of 185,000 men, slain by the angel of the Lord “that night,” and returned in disguise to Nineveh, where he was slain by his own sons in the presence of his god Nisroch, in whose strength he trusted to prevail against “the God of Jerusalem.”
. Vol. 36: The Christadelphian: Volume 36. 2001 (electronic ed.) (441–442). Birmingham: Christadelphian Magazine & Publishing Association.