Isaiah 10

Isaiah 10
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The Great Isaiah Scroll, the best preserved of the biblical scrolls found at Qumran from the second century BC, contains all the verses in this chapter.
Book	Book of Isaiah
Bible part	Old Testament
Order in the Bible part	23
Category	Nevi'im

Isaiah 10 is the tenth chapter of the Book of Isaiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.^[1][2] This book contains the prophecies spoken by the prophet Isaiah, and is a part of the Book of the Prophets.^[3][4]

Text

• The original text is written in Hebrew language.
• This chapter is divided into 34 verses.

Textual versions

Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter in Hebrew language:

• Masoretic Text (10th century)
• Dead Sea Scrolls: (2nd century BC)^[5][6]
  • 1QIsa^a: complete^[5]
  • 1QIsa^b: extant: verses 16‑19^[5]
  • 4QIsa^c (4Q57): extant: verses 23‑32^[5]
  • 4QIsa^e (4Q59): extant: verses 1‑10^[5]

Ancient translations in Koine Greek:

• Septuagint (3rd century BC)
• Theodotion version (~AD 180)

Structure

This chapter can be grouped:

• Isaiah 10:1-4 = The Punishment of Samaria (continued from Isaiah 9:8-21)
• Isaiah 10:5-19 = Arrogant Assyria Also Judged
• Isaiah 10:20-34 = The Returning Remnant of Israel

Verse 22

For though your people, O Israel, be as the sand of the sea,

A remnant of them will return;

The destruction decreed shall overflow with righteousness.^[7]

Cited by Apostle Paul in his Epistle to the Romans chapter 9:27

Verse 23

For the Lord God of hosts

Will make a determined end

In the midst of all the land.^[8]

Cited by Paul of Tarsus in his Epistle to the Romans chapter 9:28

See also

• Paul of Tarsus
• Related Bible parts: Romans 9

Notes and references

1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
3. J. D. Davis. 1960. A Dictionary of The Bible. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House.
4. Therodore Hiebert, et.al. 1996. The New Intrepreter's Bible: Volume: VII. Nashville: Abingdon.
5. Dead sea scrolls - Isaiah
6. Timothy A. J. Jull; Douglas J. Donahue; Magen Broshi; Emanuel Toy (1995). "Radiocarbon Dating of Scrolls and Linen Fragments from the Judean Desert". Radiocarbon. 37 (1): 14. Retrieved 26 November 2014.
7. Isaiah 10:22
8. Isaiah 10:23

External links

Jewish

• Isaiah 10:Original Hebrew with Parallel English

Christian

• Isaiah 10 English Translation with Parallel Latin Vulgate