Text: Isaiah 10:26
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 14:16
Subject: judgment like Midian at rock of Oreb and staff over the sea
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Typology
Significance: Isaiah 10:26 explicitly recalls the exodus deliverance: "He will raise His staff over the sea, as He did in Egypt," echoing Moses stretching out his hand over the sea with his staff (מַטֶּה, matteh) in Exodus 14:16. Isaiah uses this exodus memory to assure Judah that God will defeat Assyria with the same sovereign power He displayed against Egypt. The verb נָטָה (natah, "to stretch out/raise") connects both passages, as God's instrument of judgment swings from Pharaoh's army to Assyria's forces. This establishes the new exodus pattern: the original deliverance becomes the paradigm through which Israel reads all future acts of divine salvation.
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Text: Exodus 14:16
OT Text Referred to: Isaiah 10:26
Subject: judgment like Midian at rock of Oreb and staff over the sea
Source: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Reference Type: Allusion
Connection Method(s): Analogy + Longitudinal Theme
Significance: Exodus 14:16 records God commanding Moses to stretch out his hand and lift his staff (מַטֶּה, matteh) over the sea to divide it, and Isaiah 10:26 explicitly invokes this event: "the LORD of Hosts will brandish a whip against them, as in the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb; and He will lift His staff over the sea as He did in Egypt." Isaiah deliberately recalls the Red Sea deliverance to assure Judah that Assyria's oppression will end through the same divine power that drowned Pharaoh's army. The prophet fuses two earlier deliverances—the Red Sea crossing and Gideon's victory over Midian—into a single image of God's staff raised against oppressors, promising a new exodus-like liberation.