Isaiahs Vision of the Assyrian Advance from Aiath Through Laishah to Jerusalem

Isaiah 10:28-34 delivers one of the most cinematically vivid prophetic visions in the entire Old Testament — the Assyrian army advancing village by village down the central Benjaminite ridge toward Jerusalem: "He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages... Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, poor Anathoth. Madmenah is removed; the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee... As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion." Then the Lord lops the proud cedars of Lebanon — the imperial pretensions of Assyria — at the height of their arrogance.

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