I will send him - Implying that he was entirely in the hand of God, and subject to his direction; and showing that God has control over king…

I will send him against an hypocritical nation. —Better, impious. The verb can be rendered in various ways: “I w…

To a hypocritical nation. He proceeds with the former statement, by which he called the Assyrian the rod of God’s indignation; fo…

I will send him against a hypocritical nation
The people of Israel, who might well be called so, since everyone of t…

See what a change sin made. The king of Assyria, in his pride, thought to act by his own will. The tyrants of the world are tools of Providence. Go…

1. Woe to them that make wicked laws. Here he begins to threaten the foreign enemies who persecute them physically.

He threa…