Isaiah 2:7

2:7 Their land is full of gold and silver;

there is no end to their wealth. ¹ 

Their land is full of horses;

there is no end to their chariots. ² 

Isaiah 5:28

5:28 Their arrows are sharpened,

and all their bows are prepared. ³ 

The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, ⁴ 

and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm. ⁵ 

Isaiah 28:28

28:28 Grain is crushed,

though one certainly does not thresh it forever.

The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,

but his horses do not crush it.

Isaiah 36:8

36:8 Now make a deal with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, provided you can find enough riders for them.

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¹ tn Or “treasuries”; KJV “treasures.”

² sn Judah’s royal bureaucracy had accumulated great wealth and military might, in violation of Deut 17:16-17.

³ tn Heb “bent” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “are strung.”

⁴ tn Heb “regarded like flint.”

⁵ sn They are like a windstorm in their swift movement and in the way they kick up dust.