Isaiah 22:3 - Exposition

All thy rulers are fled together ; rather, all thy chief men . We must make allowance for Oriental hyperbole. The meaning is that numbers of the principal men, regarding resistance as vain, had endeavored to make their escape from the doomed town, but had been captured and bound by the enemies' archers. All that are found in thee ; rather, belonging to thee . The reference is to those who had made their escape and were fleeing far away. The archers seize them, and bind them all together . We often see a number of captives bound together by a single rope in the Egyptian bas-reliefs. Which have fled from far ; rather, which were flying far away .