Chapter 10 – FAMILIA MUNDIAL
1 [6-7] Impious nation: Israel. It was God’s intention to use Assyria merely to punish, not to destroy, his people.
2 [9] Calno . . . Damascus: cities captured by the Assyrians.
3 [16] His fat ones: the strong men of the king of Assyria.
4 [21] A remnant will return: in Hebrew, shear-jashub, an allusion to the name of Isaiah’s son, Shear-jashub; cf ⇒ Isaiah 7:3.
5 [27-32] A poetic description of the progress of the Assyrian army, advancing from the north through Judah to the gates of Jerusalem.
6 [32-34] Just when the enemy is about to capture Jerusalem, God intervenes and destroys the hostile army.