Isaiah 10:5-7
Assyria ........... as good as dead <01945 0804> [O Assyrian. or, Woe to the Assyrian. Heb. O Asshur.]
club <07626> [the rod.]
cudgel <04294> [and. or, though.]
godless ......... people <02611 05971> [against.]
ordered <06680> [will I give.]
<07760> [tread them. Heb. lay them a treading.]
agree <01819> [he meaneth.]
mind ............... eliminate <03824> [in his heart.]
Ezekiel 14:9
prophet ......................... prophet <05030> [if the.]
Lord <03068> [I the.]
That is, I have suffered him to be deceived; I have given him up to "strong delusions to believe a lie," as a just judgment upon him for going after idols, and setting up false pretensions to inspiration. God, according to the genius of the Hebrew language, is often said to do a thing, which he only suffers, or permits.
stretch <05186> [and I will.]
Ezekiel 20:25
gave <05414> [I gave.]
The simple meaning of this place is, that when the Israelites had rebelled against God, despised his statutes, and polluted his sabbaths, in effect cast him off, and given themselves up wholly to their idols, then He, in a just judgment for their disobedience, abandoned them, "gave them up to a reprobate mind," (Ro 1:28,) and suffered them to walk after the idolatrous, cruel, and impious customs and ordinances of the heathen; by which they were ripened for the destruction which he intended to bring upon them, that they might learn to know God by his judgments, seeing they had despised his mercies. In the same sense God is said judicially to "send a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie," to those who "received not the love of the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
