Isaiah 22

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22

Prophecy concerning Jerusalem, Isaiah 22:1-14 . Sentence against Shebna, who was over the household, Isaiah 22:15-19 . Prophecy concerning Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, Isaiah 22:20 , Isaiah 22:21 . From Eliakim, Isaiah, (agreeably to the mode universally adopted in the prophetical writings, of making the things then present, or which were shortly to be accomplished, types or representations of things to be fulfilled upon a larger scale in distant futurity), makes a transition to the... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:1

Art - gone up to the house-tops "Are gone up to the house-tops" - The houses in the east were in ancient times, as they are still, generally, built in one and the same uniform manner. The roof or top of the house is always flat, covered with broad stones, or a strong plaster of terrace, and guarded on every side with a low parapet wall; see Deuteronomy 22:8 . The terrace is frequented as much as any part of the house. On this, as the season favors, they walk, they eat, they sleep, they... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:3

All thy rulers - are bound by the archers "All thy leaders - are fled from the bow" - There seems to be somewhat of an inconsistency in the sense according to the present reading. If the leaders were bound, אסרו usseru , how could they flee away? for their being bound, according to the obvious construction and course of the sentence, is a circumstance prior to their flight. I therefore follow Houbigant, who reads הסרו huseru , remoti sunt , "they are gone off." גלו galu , ... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:6

Chariots of men "The Syriac" - It is not easy to say what אדם רכב recheb adam , a chariot of men, can mean. It seems by the form of the sentence, which consists of three members, the first and the third mentioning a particular people, that the second should do so likewise. Thus ופרשים ארם ברכב berecheb aram uparashim , "with chariots the Syrian, and with horsemen:" the similitude of the letters ד daleth and ר resh is so great, and the mistakes arising from it are so frequent,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:8

The armor "The arsenal" - Built by Solomon within the city, and called the house of the forest of Lebanon; probably from the great quantity of cedar from Lebanon which was employed in the building. See 1 Kings 7:2 , 1 Kings 7:3 . read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:9

Ye gathered together the waters "And ye shall collect the waters" - There were two pools in or near Jerusalem, supplied by springs: the upper pool, or the old pool, supplied by the spring called Gihon, 2 Chronicles 32:30 , towards the higher part of the city, near Sion, or the city of David, and the lower pool, probably supplied by Siloam, towards the lower part. When Hezekiah was threatened with a siege by Sennacherib, he stopped up all the waters of the fountains without the city; and... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:11

Unto the maker thereof "To him that hath disposed this" - That is, to God the Author and Disposer of this visitation, the invasion with which he now threatens you. The very same expressions are applied to God, and upon the same occasion, Isaiah 37:26 ; : - "Hast thou not heard of old, that I have disposed it; And of ancient times, that I have formed it?" read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:13

Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die - This has been the language or all those who have sought their portion in this life, since the foundation of the world. So the poet: - Heu, heu nos miserif quam totus homuncio nil est! Sic erimus cuncti, postquam nos auferet orcus. Ergo vivamus, dum licet esse, bene read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:14

It was revealed in mine ears "The voice of Jehovah" - The Vulgate has vox Domini ; as if in his copy he had read יהוה קול kol Yehovah ; and in truth, without the word קול kol , voice, it is not easy to make out the sense of the passage; as appears from the strange versions which the rest of the ancients, (except the Chaldee), and many of the moderns, have given of it; as if the matter were revealed in or to the ears of Jehovah: εν τοις ωσι Κυριου , in the ears of the Lord,... read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 22:15

Go - unto Shebna - The following prophecy concerning Shebna seems to have very little relation to the foregoing, except that it might have been delivered about the same time; and Shebna might be a principal person among those whose luxury and profaneness is severely reprehended by the prophet in the conclusion of that prophecy, Isaiah 22:11-14 . Shebna the scribe, mentioned in the history of Hezekiah, chap. 36, seems to have been a different person from this Shebna, the treasurer or... read more

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