» Here the Propher cerurns to his former Diſcourſe concerning the 4ſhrian Tavalion inco Judah ; which he decribes, after the man ner of the Prophets, as a thing preſent, and ſers down the ſeveral Stages by which he marched towards Jeruſalem, The Places here named are moſt ofthem Towns of B-»jamin and ſome of Judah, as appears from other Scriptures ; of which it is needleſs to ſay. more in this place, He, to wit, Sennacheris King of Aſjria, 1s come in his way to Jeruſalem. ſ Leaving ſuch things there as were lels neceſſary, that ſo he might march with more expedition. Heb. he w1ſiteth his veſſels or inftruments : which may be meant of his taking a Survey of his Army and Artillery, to ſee that all chings were rea- dy for his Enterpriſe.
29 They are gone over the Paſſage t : they have ta ken up their lodging at Geba, Ramah is afraid, Gibeab of Saul is fled #. |
$ Some conſiderable Paſſage then well known ; Poſſibly that 1 Sam: 14. 5. The People fled to Jeruſalem for fear of the Afſrian.
20 fLift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim x ;
{Heb Cry cauſe it to bz heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.
ſil with w Jeruſalem was the Mother Ciry, and lefſer Towas are common-
thy Wice, lyicalled her daughters, as hath been oft noted. : :
21 Madmenah is removed, the inhabitants of Gebin gather themſelves to flee.
22 As yet ſball he remain at Nob that day : he ſhall ſhake his hand y gain the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jeruſalem.
y By way of Commination, But withal he intimates that he ſhould be able to do no more againſt it, and that there his proud Waves ſhould be ſtayed, as it is declared in the following Verles, and in the Hiſtory.
33 Behold the Lord, the LORD of Hoſts ſhall lop the bough s with terrour 4: and the high ones of ſta- ture ſhall be hewn down, and the haughcy ſhal be hum- bled.
z The top-bough, Sennacherib; or, rhe boughs. his valiant Soul- diers or Commanders of his Army, which he compareth to a For- reſt wer: 18. & 34. a With a moſt terrible and amazing ſtroke by an Angel. :
24 Andhe ſhall cut down the thickets of the forreſt with iron b, and Lebanon « ſhall fall [| by a mighty
(0r,nigh- one d. kl, b Or, as with iron, as the Trees of the Forrefts are cut down by Inſtrumepts of Iron. c Or, his Lebanon, the P:onoun being ofc underſtood in the Hebrew Text: the Aſhrian Army, which being before compared to # Forreſt or Wood, aid being called his Carmel in the Hebrew Text, v: 18. may very firly, upon the ſame ground be called his lebanon here ; eſpecia}ly conſidering that the King of Aſyria is called 4 Cedar of Lebanon, Exck: 31. 3. « By a mighty An-
gel, Js, 37: 36. | CHAP. XI.
Chriſt, = Branch out of the Root of Feſſe, endued with the Spirit of the Lord, ſh-uld ſet up a Kinzdom by the Preaching of his word, 1———=5. The Memvers of kis Church ſhould live in Peace and Unity. 6 .9 and be V:Forious over their enemies : and to him ſhould the Gentiles ſeek, L9——i6.
a ND X* there ſhal come forth « a rod þ out of the
ſtemm e of * Jeſſe 4, and * a branchlball grow e out of his Roots f.
a The Prophet having diſpatched the /fhrian, and comforted : ods People with the Promiſe of their Deliverance from that for- ' $32 midable Enemy, now he proceeds further, and declares, That God &r;23; 5. will do greater things than rhat for them, that he will givethem their long-expeCted and much-deſfired Meſiab,and by him w''l work Wonders of M:rcy for them. For this 13 rhe manner of the Pro-
por, to take the occaſion of particular Deliverances, to fix the
eoples Minds upon ctieir great and everlaſting Deliverance from
all their enemies by the Mefiah. And having faid that rhe Aſjrian
yoke ſboul be deftroyed becauſe of the anointing, chap: 10: 27. he now more particularly explains who that anojnted Perſon was. 6 Or, Twig,
called a branch in the next clauſe. Parents are oft compared co Roots,
or Trees, and their Children to Branches. He ſpeaks of the moſt eminent Branch, of that famous Son ofa Virgin, 1/a: 7: 14. of thar Wonderful Child,/{/s: 9; 6: not of Hezekiah, as ſome of the Jews and Judaizine Chriſtians conceit ; but of the Meſſiah, as will evidently appear from the following Deſcription. c Or, trunk ; or rather.
Fump : for the Word proper'y ſignifies a Trunk cur off from the
the Root : Or, root, as the LXX here render the Word. and as it is explained in the next Clauſe, By which he clearly implies, that
the Meſſiah ſhould be born of the Royal Houſe vf David, at that
time when it was in a moſt forlorn and contemptible condition,
like a Tree cut down,and whereof noting is lefi but a Stump or Root under Ground. Which really was the State of Davzd's Family when
Chriſt was born, as is notoriouſly known; but was in a far better
Mech: Y f1.
Rev: 5: 5. Affn13.2 3.G
1 8 1 0
God had promiſed, and did ſo conſtantly perform his Mercy pro- |
| the ſight of his eyes 9, neither reprove r afcer the hear«
l Citap. X | |
20. 30, to intimate, that at the time of Chririſts Birth the Roval Family ſhou'd be reduced to its Primitive Obſcrrity. e He ſpeaks of one not yet born, and therefore not of Hezekiah, who was born divers year before his Father 4haz ( in whoſe time this Prophecy was delivered } was King, by comparing 2 Kngs 16. 2. & 18. 2. but of the Meſſiah, f Our of one «f his Roots, 7: e: Branches, as this Word root is ſometimes uſed,by a very uſual Figure called a Metony- my, as1t 15 here below, v. 10. Iſaiah 53. 2, Hoſea 14.
2 And the ſpitit of the LORD g ſhall. reſt up- on him h, the ſpirit of Wiſdom and underſtand- ing i, the ſpiric of counſel and might & the ſpi-
rit of knowledge } and of the fear of the LORD =: |
£ The Holy Ghoſt, wherewith he was anointed, 4#s 10. 38.and by whom his Mother was overſhadowed, Luke 'i. 35. h Nor only come upon him at certain times, as he did upon the Prophets now and then at his pleaſure, bur ſhall have its conſtant and ſetled abode 1a him 3, alchough the ſame Phraſe be ſomerimes uſed of other Pros —_ in an inferiour ſenſe, as Numb: 117 19. 2 Kings 2-35. 35 Which