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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 22:1 - 22:1
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Isa 22:1-14. Prophecy as to an attack on Jerusalem.
That by Sennacherib, in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; Isa 22:8-11, the preparations for defense and securing of water exactly answer to those in 2Ch 32:4, 2Ch 32:5, 2Ch 32:30. “Shebna,” too (Isa 22:15), was scribe at this time (Isa 36:3) [Maurer]. The language of Isa 22:12-14, as to the infidelity and consequent utter ruin of the Jews, seems rather to foreshadow the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in Zedekiah’s reign, and cannot be restricted to Hezekiah’s time [Lowth].
of ... valley of vision - rather, “respecting the valley of visions”; namely, Jerusalem, the seat of divine revelations and visions, “the nursery of prophets” [Jerome], (Isa 2:3; Isa 29:1; Eze 23:4, Margin; Luk 13:33). It lay in a “valley” surrounded by hills higher than Zion and Moriah (Psa 125:2; Jer 21:13).
thee - the people of Jerusalem personified.
housetops - Panic-struck, they went up on the flat balustraded roofs to look forth and see whether the enemy was near, and partly to defend themselves from the roofs (Jdg 9:51, etc.).