Isa 30:33

“For...is set up from yesterday The second day of the Creation of the world a day that has a yesterday but not a day before yesterday. Tophteh Gehinnom, for whoever is enticed (מִתְפַּתֶּה) by his temptation falls into there. has been prepared for the king For the necessity of Sennacherib and his army. its pile (מְדֻרָתָהּ) an expression of a heated fire. An arrangement of wood on the fire is called מְדוּרָה. the breath of the Lord the blowing of His breath. burning (בֹּעֲרָה) equivalent to בּוֹעֶרֶת.”

“מאהמוֹל═מאתמוּל Of old. תפתה Tophet. The name of a squalid place near Jerusalem, where all refuse was cast, and whence a continual smoke was rising. The meaning of the sentence is: Tophet is prepared by the Lord for the King of Assyria. גם הוא למלך הוכן. Yea, for the king it is prepared. For all his officers and princes have already perished. According to others the pronoun הוא refers to the King of Assyria. מדרתה The pile thereof. Comp. מדורה fireplace (Ez. 24:9). The breath of the Lord, the breath that cometh out quickly; it expresses figuratively the immediate fulfilment of the divine decrees.”

“688. For Topheth is prepared. Here he describes the place of punishment. And first, its disposition: Topheth, the valley of the son of Ennom, Gehenna, for the fire for sacrifices was kept there on stones of tufa (Tophis); this is the same as the valley of Gethsemane, where the army of Sennacherib was destroyed. Or it signifies hell; hence the Jews conjecture that hell is there, because smoke is always emitted from two palm trees which are there. From yesterday, that is, from the beginning; or, according to the Jews, from the second day, which had only yesterday, and no day before. Jeremiah 7 and 19 discuss this valley. Prepared by the king, God, deep, and wide, above: therefore has hell enlarged her soul (Isa 5:14). Second, the variety of punishments: the nourishment thereof is fire and much wood, the impious, or the men of the army of Sennacherib; the breath of the Lord, that is, his will, metaphorically: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup (Ps 10:7[11:6]). 691. Note on the words, is prepared by the king, deep, and wide (Isa 30:33), that hell is broad, first, because of its desire to retain, above: therefore has hell enlarged her soul (Isa 5:14); second, because of the multitude of the damned: strait is the way that leads to life; wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many there are who go in thereat (Matt 7:13–14); third, because of the variety of punishments: fire, hail, snow, ice (Ps 148:8) or: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds (Ps 10:7[11:6]); fourth, because of the eternity of the punishment: go, you cursed, into everlasting fire (Matt 25:41).”