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Isaiah 10:32
Yet today they will halt at Nob, shaking a fist at the mount of Daughter Zion, at the hill of Jerusalem.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet Isaiah pronounces judgment on an advancing Assyrian army as it nears Judah. The oracle marks the precise moment the enemy forces pause at Nob before turning toward Jerusalem.
The words — יְנֹפֵף יָדוֹ (ye.no.Fef ya.D/o) literally renders "he will shake his hand," describing a threatening gesture. ע֥וֹד (od) and הַ/יּ֖וֹם (hai./Yom) combine to fix the event in immediate time with "yet today."
The thread — Nob functions as a known priestly settlement that later suffers destruction (1 Samuel 21:1; 1 Samuel 22:19). The image of an uplifted hand causing terror recurs in Isaiah 19:16.
Why it lands — The text records the enemy's halted advance and defiant posture before declaring divine intervention. It requires the reader to acknowledge that military momentum stops only when sovereign judgment interrupts human plans.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
Cross-references
- 1 Samuel 21:1 Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest. And when Ahimelech met David, he trembled and asked him, “Why are you alone? Why is no one with you?”
- 1 Samuel 22:19 He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.
- Isaiah 19:16 In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.
- Isaiah 37:22 this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.
- Zechariah 2:9 I will surely wave My hand over them, so that they will become plunder for their own servants. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me.”
- Nehemiah 11:32 in Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,
- Isaiah 1:8 And the Daughter of Zion is abandoned like a shelter in a vineyard, like a shack in a cucumber field, like a city besieged.
- Isaiah 2:2 In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.
- Isaiah 10:24 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “O My people who dwell in Zion, do not fear Assyria, who strikes you with a rod and lifts his staff against you as the Egyptians did.
- Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.