Isaiah 10:32

32 This very day he will halt at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mount of daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

Isaiah 10:32 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 10:32

As yet shall he remain at Nob that day
The same day he came from Gebim; and proceed no further as yet, but make a short stay, and prepare himself and army to march to Jerusalem the next day: the Jews say ^F12, that he performed all his journeys in one day; the same day he came to Ajath he came to Nob, where he stayed the remaining part of the day. Nob was a city of the priests, ( 1 Samuel 22:19 ) and so it is called in the Targum here; it was so near Jerusalem, that, as Jarchi and Kimchi say, it might be seen from hence; wherefore here he stood, in sight of Jerusalem; against the wall of it, the Targum says; and did as follows:

he shall shake his hand [against] the mount of the daughter of
Zion, the hill of Jerusalem;
threatening what he would do to it, and despising it as unable to hold out against him; or the sense is this, yet a day, or in a day's time, from the last place where he was; he shall come to Nob, and there shall he stop, and go no further: or, "the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem, shall shake its hand"; bidding him defiance, insulting over him, or rejoicing at the fall of the Assyrian army. Wherefore it follows:

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 95. 1.

Isaiah 10:32 In-Context

30 Cry aloud, O daughter Gallim! Listen, O Laishah! Answer her, O Anathoth!

31 Madmenah is in flight, the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

32 This very day he will halt at Nob, he will shake his fist at the mount of daughter Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

33 Look, the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts, will lop the boughs with terrifying power; the tallest trees will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

34 He will hack down the thickets of the forest with an ax, and Lebanon with its majestic trees will fall.