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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Isaiah 22:15 - 22:15
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Isa 22:15-25. Prophecy that Shebna should be deposed from being prefect of the palace, and Eliakim promoted to the office.
In Isa 36:3, Isa 36:22; Isa 37:2, we find Shebna “a scribe,” and no longer prefect of the palace (“over the household”), and Eliakim in that office, as is here foretold. Shebna is singled out as the subject of prophecy (the only instance of an individual being so in Isaiah), as being one of the irreligious faction that set at naught the prophet’s warnings (Isaiah 28:1-33:24); perhaps it was he who advised the temporary ignominious submission of Hezekiah to Sennacherib.
Go, get thee unto - rather, “Go in to” (that is, into the house to).
treasurer - “him who dwells in the tabernacle” [Jerome]; namely, in a room of the temple set apart for the treasurer. Rather, “the king’s friend,” or “principal officer of the court” (1Ki 4:5; 1Ki 18:3; 1Ch 27:33, “the king’s Counsellor”) [Maurer]. “This” is prefixed contemptuously (Exo 32:1).
unto Shebna - The Hebrew for “unto” indicates an accosting of Shebna with an unwelcome message.