Isaiah 10:34

And he shall cut down the thickets of the forest -The army of the Assyrians, described here as a thick, dense forest; compareIsaiah 10:18-19. With iron -As a forest is cut down with an axe, so the prophet uses this phrase here, to keep up and carry out the figure. The army was destroyed with the pestilence2 Kings 19:35; but it fell as certainly as a forest falls before the axe. And Lebanon -Lebanon is here evidently descriptive of the army of the Assyrian, retaining the idea of a beautiful and magnificent forest.