Isaiah 31-34

By Paul Ice

This is yet another passage where God calls for His people to turn to Him and not their idols or the strength of horses or chariots. 

Isaiah prophesies what will happen when they turn to Him and away form their idols.

            “And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man;

                        and a sword, not of man, shall devour him;

            and he shall flee from the sword,

                        and his young men shall be put to forced labor.

            His rock shall pass away in terror,

                        and his officers desert the standard in panic,”

            declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion,

                        and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

(Isaiah 31:8-9 ESV)

Hear is the recording later of what happens.

            And the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh. And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword. And after they escaped into the land of Ararat, Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

(Isaiah 37:36-38 ESV)

Psalm 33:8-9 Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the people of the world revere him. For he spoke, and it came to be; he commanded, and it stood firm.