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Assyria has entered Aiath and passed through Migron, storing their supplies at Michmash.
Isaiah 10:28 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB He has come to Aiath. He has passed through Migron. At Michmash he stores his baggage.
  • KJV He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages:
  • NKJV He has come to Aiath, He has passed Migron; At Michmash he has attended to his equipment.
  • NASB ¶He has come against Aiath, He has passed through Migron; At Michmash he deposited his baggage.
  • NLT Look, the Assyrians are now at Aiath. They are passing through Migron and are storing their equipment at Micmash.

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Quick answer

Isaiah traces the Assyrian army's approaching march toward Jerusalem town by town. The threat is vividly near and real.

Overview

Beginning a dramatic march route, the prophet names Aiath and Migron and notes the army storing baggage at Michmash — geography that heightens the sense of an advancing menace. The poetic itinerary makes God's warning concrete for Judah. Yet the passage builds toward the Lord's sudden intervention in verses 33-34.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 9

  • 1 Sam 14:2Meanwhile, Saul was staying under the pomegranate tree in Migron on the outskirts of Gibeah. And the troops who were with him numbered about six hundred men,
  • 1 Sam 13:2He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.
  • 1 Sam 13:5Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.
  • Judg 18:21Putting their small children, their livestock, and their possessions in front of them, they turned and departed.
  • Neh 11:31The descendants of Benjamin from Geba lived in Michmash, Aija, and Bethel with its villages;
  • Josh 7:2Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
  • 1 Sam 14:5One cliff stood to the north toward Michmash, and the other to the south toward Geba.
  • 1 Sam 14:31That day, after the Israelites had struck down the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, the people were very faint.
  • 1 Sam 17:22Then David left his supplies in the care of the quartermaster and ran to the battle line. When he arrived, he asked his brothers how they were doing.

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Christ at the center

Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).

How Isaiah 10:28 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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