For he says—this verse, and the subsequent verses to Isaiah 10:11, contain the boasting of the king of Assyria, and descriptions of his own …

Are not my princes altogether kings? —So Tiglath-pileser names the twenty-three kings (Ahaz and Pekah among them) who came to do homage an…

For he will say. He explains the reason why the Assyrian will not think that he is the rod of God. It is because, being blinded b…

For he says, [are] not my princes altogether kings ?
] Meaning either the kings which he had conquered, which were b…

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…