didn't the 'house of Israel', the ten northern tribes dwell there?  Yes, they did at first, but as written in...I & II Kings:

 This Assyrian of Isaiah's time, Sargon (prince of the sun), took all ten tribes into captivity to the land of Assyria, and then brought in foreign peoples from five nations to live in Samaria instead. They would later be called Samaritans. This short verse says a lot, and it's so easy to just skip over it.
     These cities form a line to Jerusalem from Nineveh, the capital city of Assyria. This is why Jonah didn't want to go there and preach God's Word to Nineveh, as God commanded him, so he even jumped out of the boat, hoping he would drown. God caused the 'big fish' to spit Jonah up right on the shores of Nineveh. He didn’t want to go because he was evidently aware of the prophecy of the coming fate of the northern ten tribes of Israel, his brethren, who would be taken captive to Assyria around 609 B.C. What's the lesson?  If God has called you to go do something, then you are not going to get out of it, unless you want all kinds of 'calamities' to befall you, and even then, you'll probably wind up accomplishing what God set out for you anyway.

Isa 10:10    As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

     This is still Sargon, the king of Assyria (but Satan of our future) talking at this verse. He's being awfully mocking isn't he?  He's even saying that Jerusalem and Samaria, i.e., God's People, who worship Jehovah, are a bunch of 'idol worshippers' by worshipping our Father instead of him (Satan). What audacity. 

 

Isa 10:11   Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?"

     Again, this happened historically with Sargon as king of Assyria. But... it's not over yet, for it's going to happen again to this last generation now, covering the whole earth.  Sargon as king of Assyria did not conquer Jerusalem, but Samaria. So then, the phrase 'so do to Jerusalem and her idols' hasn't happened yet. I realize that Nebuchadnezzar took the house of Judah in the captivity to Babylon, but not Sargon. Isa.10:12:

... Will reveal the distinction of this phrase more clearly, and we'll begin there in the next Letter.

Peace be with you in Christ Jesus,
Dave Ramey.

 

 

 

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