Trust in chariots

‎There was great point in Isaiah’s rebuke of Israel’s trust in the horses and chariots of Egypt. The history of previous generations in Israel was before the people. What were chariots and horses when opposed to the purpose of God? What happened to Jabin’s 900 chariots of iron when God raised up Barak against Sisera, and sold Israel’s foe into the hand of a woman who slew him with a tent-peg? Was it without reason or without recollection of this that David afterwards sang, “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God”? And now, what was the house of David doing? Forgetting the name of God, and trusting in the power of Egypt against Assyria.


Robert Roberts, & Walker, C. C. (1907). The Ministry of the Prophets: Isaiah (469–472).