Charles Ellicott Commentary Isaiah 10:10

"As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;" — Isaiah 10:10 (ASV)

As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols. — The word “idols” seems hardly appropriate as a word of scorn in the mouth of an idolatrous king; but Isaiah probably puts into his mouth the words that he himself would have used. It is, however, quite in character with the Assyrian inscriptions that Sargon should ascribe his victories to Asshur as the Supreme God, before whose sovereignty all local deities were compelled to bow. To the Assyrian king, the name of Jehovah would represent a deity whose power was to be measured by the greatness of the nation that worshipped Him, and inferior, therefore, to the gods of Carchemish or Hamath. The worship of Baal, Moloch, and other deities in both Israel and Judah had, of course, tended to strengthen this estimate. (Compare Rabshakeh’s language in Isaiah 36:18-19.)