Isaiah 36:10

Isaiah 36:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And am I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? the Lord said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
• New International Version (NIV)Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the Lord? The Lord himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.’ ”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, "Go up against this land and destroy it."'"
• New King James Version (NKJV)Have I now come up without the Lord against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”

Context of Isaiah 36:10

8Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them! 9How then can you drive back even one official of the least of my master’s servants and rely on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? And have I now come up without the Lord’s approval against this land to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’” 11Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak to us in Judean so that the people who are on the wall hear you.” 12But Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me only to your master and to you to speak these words, and not to the men who sit on the wall, doomed to eat their own dung and drink their own urine with you?”

Isaiah 36:10 word by word

וְעַתָּה֙ הֲמִבַּלְעֲדֵ֣י יְהוָ֔ה עָלִ֛יתִי עַל־הָאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּ֖את לְהַשְׁחִיתָ֑הּ יְהוָה֙ אָמַ֣ר אֵלַ֔י עֲלֵ֛ה אֶל־הָאָ֥רֶץ הַזֹּ֖את וְהַשְׁחִיתָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

• And have I nowעַתָּ֫ה‛attâh · nowH6258
• comeעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: riseH5927
• withoutבִּלְעֲדֵיbil‛ădêy bal‛ădêy · besideH1107
• the Lord’sיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• approval againstעַל‛al · uponH5921
• thisזֶהzeh · thisH2088
• landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• to destroyשָׁחַתshâchath · to ruinH7843
• saidאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• againstאֶל'êl 'el · to(wards)H413

Cross-references for Isaiah 36:10

• Isaiah 10:5Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hands is My indignation,
• Isaiah 37:28But I know your sitting down, Your going out, your coming in, And your raging against Me.
• 1 Kings 13:18Then he said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of the Lord, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” But he lied to him.
• 2 Kings 18:25Have I now come up without the Lord’s approval against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”’”
• 2 Chronicles 35:21But Neco sent messengers to him, saying, “What business do you have with me, King of Judah? I am not coming against you today, but against the house with which I am at war, and God has told me to hurry. For your own sake, stop interfering with God who is with me, so that He does not destroy you.”
• Amos 3:6If a trumpet is blown in a city, will the people not tremble? If a disaster occurs in a city, has the Lord not brought it about?

Commentaries on Isaiah 36:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Am I now come up without the Lord - Probably some apostate Israelitish priest might have encouraged the king of Assyria by telling him that Jehovah had given him a commission against Jerusalem.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10And am I now come up without the Lord - Am I come up without his permission or command? Rabshakeh here speaks in the name of his master; and he means to say that he had the express command of Yahweh to inflict punishment on the Jews. It is possible that there had been conveyed to Sennacherib a rumour of what Isaiah had said (see Isaiah 10:5-6) that God would bring the Assyrians upon the Jewish people to punish them for their sins, and that Rabshakeh now…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The LORD Himself said to me: It was common for a king to claim that a god approved of their actions when they destroyed other kingdoms. This matched Isaiah’s prophecy in Isaiah 10:5–6.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. A boastful inference from the past successes of Assyria, designed to influence the Jews to surrender; their own principles bound them to yield to Jehovah's will. He may have heard from partisans in Judah what Isaiah had foretold (Is 10:5, 6).Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Destroy
• Hezekiah
• Isaiah
• Sennacherib
• Bible, the
• Chronicles, Books of
• Chronology of the Old Testament
• Hezekiah (2)
• Shebna

Commentaries on Isaiah 36

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings