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Version</a></span><br />As my hand seized the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria—<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/10.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Yes, we have finished off many a kingdom whose gods were greater than those in Jerusalem and Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/10.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/10.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/10.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/10.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/10.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images <i>were greater</i> than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/10.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/10.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images <i>were</i> greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/10.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images <i>were</i> greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/10.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, Whose carved images were greater <i>and</i> more feared than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/10.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />As my hand seized the kingdoms of worthless images, kingdoms whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/10.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms, whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/10.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/10.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/10.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />My power has reached kingdoms which have idols. They had more carved statues than Jerusalem or Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/10.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />I reached out to punish those kingdoms that worship idols, idols more numerous than those of Jerusalem and Samaria. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/10.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />As my hand has reached to the idolatrous kingdoms whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/10.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/10.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />I overpowered kingdoms ruled by idols, whose carved images were more impressive than Jerusalem's or Samaria's. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/10.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/10.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images excelled them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/10.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/10.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />As my hand has gotten to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their carved images, "" [Greater] than Jerusalem and than Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/10.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> As my hand hath got to the kingdoms of a worthless thing, and their graven images, Greater than Jerusalem and than Samaria,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/10.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />As my hand found for the kingdoms of nothing, and their carved images from Jerusalem and from Shomeron;<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/10.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />As my hand hath found the king- dome of the idol, so also their idols of Jerusalem, and of Samaria. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/10.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />In the same manner as my hand reached the kingdoms of the idol, so also will it reach their false images, those of Jerusalem and of Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/10.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Just as my hand reached out to idolatrous kingdoms that had more images than Jerusalem and Samaria— <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/10.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols whose images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/10.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/10.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />And just as my hand has found the Kingdoms of idols and of carvings from Jerusalem and from Samaria<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/10.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />As my hand hath reached the kingdoms of the idols, Whose graven images did exceed them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/10.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms: howl, ye idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/10-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=2183" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/10.htm">Judgment on Assyria</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">9</span>“Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? <span class="reftext">10</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ka·’ă·šer (Prep-k:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">As</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏî (N-fsc:: 1cs) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">my hand</a> <a href="/hebrew/4672.htm" title="4672: mā·ṣə·’āh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To attain to, find. ">seized</a> <a href="/hebrew/457.htm" title="457: hā·’ĕ·lîl (Art:: N-ms) -- Insufficiency, worthlessness. Apparently from 'al; good for nothing, by anal. Vain or vanity; specifically an idol.">the idolatrous</a> <a href="/hebrew/4467.htm" title="4467: lə·mam·lə·ḵōṯ (Prep-l:: N-fpc) -- Kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, reign. From malak; dominion, i.e. the estate or the country.">kingdoms</a> <a href="/hebrew/6456.htm" title="6456: ū·p̄ə·sî·lê·hem (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3mp) -- An idol, image. From pacal; an idol.">whose images surpassed</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: mî·rū·šā·lim (Prep-m:: N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">those of Jerusalem</a> <a href="/hebrew/8111.htm" title="8111: ū·miš·šō·mə·rō·wn (Conj-w, Prep-m:: N-proper-fs) -- Capital of N. kingdom of Isr. From the active participle of shamar; watch-station; Shomeron, a place in Palestine.">and Samaria,</a> </span><span class="reftext">11</span>and as I have done to Samaria and its idols, will I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm">2 Kings 19:12-13</a></span><br />Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? / Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-13.htm">2 Chronicles 32:13-14</a></span><br />Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand? / Who among all the gods of these nations that my fathers devoted to destruction has been able to deliver his people from my hand? How then can your God deliver you from my hand?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm">Isaiah 37:12-13</a></span><br />Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? / Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/50-29.htm">Jeremiah 50:29</a></span><br />Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/31-18.htm">Ezekiel 31:18</a></span><br />Who then is like you in glory and greatness among the trees of Eden? You also will be brought down to the depths of the earth to be with the trees of Eden. You will lie among the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, declares the Lord GOD.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/3-8.htm">Nahum 3:8-10</a></span><br />Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water? / Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies. / Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/daniel/4-30.htm">Daniel 4:30</a></span><br />the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/habakkuk/1-10.htm">Habakkuk 1:10-11</a></span><br />They scoff at kings and make rulers an object of scorn. They laugh at every fortress and build up siege ramps to seize it. / Then they sweep by like the wind and pass through. They are guilty; their own strength is their god.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-15.htm">Zephaniah 2:15</a></span><br />This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/18-7.htm">Revelation 18:7</a></span><br />As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/11-23.htm">Matthew 11:23</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/10-15.htm">Luke 10:15</a></span><br />And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/12-21.htm">Acts 12:21-23</a></span><br />On the appointed day, Herod donned his royal robes, sat on his throne, and addressed the people. / And they began to shout, “This is the voice of a god, not a man!” / Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-21.htm">Romans 1:21-22</a></span><br />For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/10-12.htm">1 Corinthians 10:12</a></span><br />So the one who thinks he is standing firm should be careful not to fall.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;</p><p class="hdg">the kingdoms</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-14.htm">Isaiah 10:14</a></b></br> And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs <i>that are</i> left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/18-33.htm">2 Kings 18:33-35</a></b></br> Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm">2 Kings 19:12,13,17-19</a></b></br> Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; <i>as</i> Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which <i>were</i> in Thelasar? … </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/97-7.htm">Engraved</a> <a href="/psalms/73-7.htm">Exceed</a> <a href="/job/36-9.htm">Exceeded</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-29.htm">Excel</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/9-22.htm">Excelled</a> <a href="/songs/8-10.htm">Found</a> <a href="/psalms/97-7.htm">Graven</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/2-9.htm">Greater</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/isaiah/2-20.htm">Images</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-14.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/psalms/135-11.htm">Kingdoms</a> <a href="/judges/18-18.htm">Pictured</a> <a href="/psalms/107-7.htm">Reached</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm">Sama'ria</a> <a href="/songs/3-4.htm">Seized</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-4.htm">Worthless</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm">Engraved</a> <a href="/matthew/5-20.htm">Exceed</a> <a href="/numbers/3-49.htm">Exceeded</a> <a href="/jeremiah/5-28.htm">Excel</a> <a href="/1_kings/4-30.htm">Excelled</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-14.htm">Found</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-9.htm">Graven</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-26.htm">Greater</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-13.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Idols</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Images</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-4.htm">Kingdoms</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-8.htm">Pictured</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-8.htm">Reached</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Samaria</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Sama'ria</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-14.htm">Seized</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm">Worthless</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 10</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/10-1.htm">The woe of tyrants</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Assyria, the rod of hypocrites, for its pride shall be broken</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/10-20.htm">A remnant of Israel shall be saved</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/10-23.htm">Judah is comforted with promise of deliverance from Assyria</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/isaiah/10.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms</b><br />This phrase begins with the assertion of power and control, "As my hand seized," which reflects the sovereignty and might of God. In the Hebrew text, the word for "hand" (יָד, yad) often symbolizes power and authority. The imagery of God's hand seizing kingdoms underscores His dominion over all nations, emphasizing that no earthly power can withstand His will. Historically, this reflects the Assyrian conquests, which were permitted by God as a tool of judgment against idolatrous nations. The term "idolatrous kingdoms" refers to nations that have turned away from the worship of the one true God to serve idols. This highlights the recurring biblical theme of God's intolerance for idolatry and His desire for exclusive worship. The historical context here is crucial, as it reflects the ancient Near Eastern practice of idol worship, which was prevalent among Israel's neighbors and often led Israel astray.<p><b>whose images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria&#8212</b><br />The phrase "whose images excelled" points to the grandeur and perceived superiority of the idols worshiped by these kingdoms. The Hebrew word for "images" (פֶּסֶל, pesel) refers to carved idols or graven images, which were common in ancient pagan worship. The comparison to "Jerusalem and Samaria" is significant. Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, and Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, were both guilty of idolatry at various points in their history. However, the text suggests that the idolatry of these foreign kingdoms was even more pronounced. This serves as a sobering reminder to the people of God about the dangers of idolatry and the consequences of turning away from Him. The historical context here is the divided kingdom period, where both Israel and Judah struggled with maintaining pure worship amidst the influence of surrounding nations. This phrase challenges believers to reflect on the purity of their worship and the dangers of allowing cultural influences to lead them away from God.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/10.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) <span class= "bld">As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols.</span>--The word "idols" seems hardly appropriate as a word of scorn in the mouth of an idolatrous king; but Isaiah probably puts into his lips the words which 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. (Comp. Rabshakeh's language in <a href="/context/isaiah/36-18.htm" title="Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will deliver us. Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?">Isaiah 36:18-19</a>.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/10.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 10.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols.</span> "Found" here means "reached," "punished... subjugated." It is quite in accordance with Assyrian ideas that the conquered countries should be called "kingdoms of the idols" (literally, "no gods"). The Assyrian monarchs regarded their own gods as alone really deserving of the name, and made war very much with the object of proving the superiority of their deities over those of their neighbors. Hence their practice of carrying off the idols from the various cities which they conquered, or else of inscribing on them "the praises of Asshur." <span class="cmt_word">And whose graven images</span>; rather, <span class="accented">and their graven images</span>. <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>Did excel</span>. In preciousness of material or in workmanship, or both. The Assyrians went near to identifying the idols with the gods themselves. <span class="cmt_word">Those of Jerusalem and of Samaria</span>. The chief Samaritan idols were the golden calves at Dan and Bethel; but, in addition to these, "images and groves were set up in every high hill and under every green tree" (<a href="/2_kings/17-10.htm">2 Kings 17:10</a>), images of Baal, and Ashtoreth, and perhaps Beltis, and Chemosh, and Moloch. Even in Judah and in Jerusalem itself there were idols. Ahaz "made molten images for Baalim" (<a href="/2_chronicles/28-2.htm">2 Chronicles 28:2</a>). The brazen serpent was worshipped as an idol at Jerusalem until Hezekiah destroyed it; and probably, even after the reformation of Hezekiah (<a href="/2_kings/18-4.htm">2 Kings 18:4</a>), many Jews retained privately the images, which he required them to destroy (<a href="/2_chronicles/31-1.htm">2 Chronicles 31:1</a>). Isaiah had already declared, speaking of Judah rather than of Israel, "Their land is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made" (<a href="/isaiah/2-8.htm">Isaiah 2:8</a>). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/10-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">As</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּאֲשֶׁר֙</span> <span class="translit">(ka·’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">my hand</span><br /><span class="heb">יָדִ֔י</span> <span class="translit">(yā·ḏî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">seized</span><br /><span class="heb">מָצְאָ֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(mā·ṣə·’āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4672.htm">Strong's 4672: </a> </span><span class="str2">To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the idolatrous</span><br /><span class="heb">הָאֱלִ֑יל</span> <span class="translit">(hā·’ĕ·lîl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_457.htm">Strong's 457: </a> </span><span class="str2">Good for, nothing, by anal, vain, vanity, an idol</span><br /><br /><span class="word">kingdoms,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְמַמְלְכֹ֖ת</span> <span class="translit">(lə·mam·lə·ḵōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4467.htm">Strong's 4467: </a> </span><span class="str2">Kingdom, sovereignty, dominion, reign</span><br /><br /><span class="word">whose images [surpassed]</span><br /><span class="heb">וּפְסִ֣ילֵיהֶ֔ם</span> <span class="translit">(ū·p̄ə·sî·lê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6456.htm">Strong's 6456: </a> </span><span class="str2">An idol, image</span><br /><br /><span class="word">those of Jerusalem</span><br /><span class="heb">מִירֽוּשָׁלִַ֖ם</span> <span class="translit">(mî·rū·šā·lim)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> </span><span class="str2">Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and Samaria,</span><br /><span class="heb">וּמִשֹּׁמְרֽוֹן׃</span> <span class="translit">(ū·miš·šō·mə·rō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - proper - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8111.htm">Strong's 8111: </a> </span><span class="str2">Samaria -- capital of northern kingdom of Israel</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/10-10.htm">Isaiah 10:10 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/10-10.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 10:10 As my hand has found the kingdoms (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/10-9.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 10:9"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 10:9" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/10-11.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 10:11"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 10:11" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>