Isaiah 22:8-11

8-11. He discovered the covering of Judah “He” is indefinite, but from the verses following it is quite evident that it refers to the Jews. The expression means, “The covering of Judah was removed.” The Jews become conscious of their own condition, and are alarmed.

Look… to the armour To the arsenal of shields, etc., in the house of the forest, so named from its Lebanon cedars of which it was made.

Breaches They look also to the bad condition of the walls, and to gathering from the outside lower pool adequate water supplies in the city.

Numbered the houses To see which can best be spared to take down, the stone to be used for repairing the walls. Estimating expenses and asserting materials for wall building may have had something to do with this numbering.

Between the two walls Or, pair of walls. This must mean that a basin was formed for collecting additional waters, a parallel wall to one then standing being reared for it.

Old pool The upper Gihon, probably three fourths of a mile outside, west, and higher than the city within the walls. To all these preparations the Jews looked, on awaking to their condition. But unto the maker… him that fashioned, etc. They did not look.

These words are to be taken as poetical equivalents for the Efficient Cause of all things. They were looking to arsenals, etc., but not to God. Long ago had God foreseen this, and ordered such a siege to punish and correct the Jews.