Isaiah 2:7
Context2:7 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
Context5:28 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
Context28:28 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
Context36:8 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.
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.