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Text -- Isaiah 22:7 (NET)

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22:7 Your very best valleys were full of chariots; horsemen confidently took their positions at the gate.
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Dictionary Themes and Topics: WAR; WARFARE | Vision | Sennacherib | SHEBNA | KEY | Israel | Isaiah | ARRAY | more
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Wesley: Isa 22:7 - -- Valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots.

Valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots.

Wesley: Isa 22:7 - -- To assist the footmen while they made their assault, and to prevent those who endeavoured to escape.

To assist the footmen while they made their assault, and to prevent those who endeavoured to escape.

JFB: Isa 22:7 - -- East, north, and south of Jerusalem: Hinnom on the south side was the richest valley.

East, north, and south of Jerusalem: Hinnom on the south side was the richest valley.

JFB: Isa 22:7 - -- Rab-shakeh stood at the upper pool close to the city (Isa 36:11-13).

Rab-shakeh stood at the upper pool close to the city (Isa 36:11-13).

Calvin: Isa 22:7 - -- 7.And the choice of the valleys 84 was full of chariots. I do not find fault with the translation given by some interpreters, “in a chariot of ho...

7.And the choice of the valleys 84 was full of chariots. I do not find fault with the translation given by some interpreters, “in a chariot of horsemen,” but I have chosen rather to translate literally the words of the Prophet; for I think that he means “a military chariot.” At that time they made use of two kinds of chariots, one for carrying baggage, and another for the field of battle. Here he means those chariots in which the horsemen rode.

Had it been a threatening, it would have been proper to translate it in the future tense, “And it shall be;” but as the words which immediately follow are in the past tense, and as there is reason to believe that the Prophet is relating events which have already taken place, I have not hesitated to make this beginning agree with what follows. “The choice of the valleys” means “the choicest valleys.” He reminds the Jews of those straits to which they were reduced when the enemies were at their gates. They ought at that time to have sought help from God; but those wretched people became more strongly alienated from God, and more shamefully manifested their rebellion, which shewed them to be men utterly abandoned, and therefore he reproaches them with this hardened obstinacy.

TSK: Isa 22:7 - -- thy choicest valleys : Heb. the choice of thy valleys full : Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8, Isa 10:28-32, Isa 37:34; Jer 39:1-3 at : or, toward

thy choicest valleys : Heb. the choice of thy valleys

full : Isa 8:7, Isa 8:8, Isa 10:28-32, Isa 37:34; Jer 39:1-3

at : or, toward

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Barnes: Isa 22:7 - -- Thy choicest valleys - Hebrew, ‘ The choice of thy galleys;’ meaning the most fertile and most valued lands in the vicinity of the c...

Thy choicest valleys - Hebrew, ‘ The choice of thy galleys;’ meaning the most fertile and most valued lands in the vicinity of the city. The rich and fertile vales around Jerusalem would be occupied by the armies of the Assyrian monarch. What occurs in this verse and the following verses to Isa 22:14, is a prophetic description of what is presented historically in Isa. 36, and 2 Chr. 32. The coincidence is so exact, that it leaves no room to doubt that the invasion here described was that which took place under Sennacherib.

Set themselves in array - Hebrew, ‘ Placing shall place themselves;’ that is, they shall be drawn up for battle; they shall besiege the city, and guard it from all ingress or egress. Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib to besiege the city, took his station at the upper pool, and was so near the city that he could converse with the people on the walls Isa 36:11-13.

Poole: Isa 22:7 - -- Thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots: valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots: see Jos 17:16 . The horsemen shall set ...

Thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots: valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots: see Jos 17:16 .

The horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate to assist and defend the footmen whilst they made their assault, and withal to prevent and take those who endeavoured to escape.

Gill: Isa 22:7 - -- And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys,.... The valleys that were near Jerusalem, that used to be covered with the choicest corn or vin...

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys,.... The valleys that were near Jerusalem, that used to be covered with the choicest corn or vines, or with grass and flocks of sheep, and used to be exceeding delightful and pleasant:

shall be full of chariots; where they can be more easily driven than on mountains; these were chariots not for pleasure, but for war; chariots full of soldiers, to fight against and besiege Jerusalem:

and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate: to take them that come out of the city, and to force their way into it; as well as to protect and defend the foot, while they made the assault, and scaled the walls, and to be ready when the gates were opened to them.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 22:7 Heb “taking a stand, take their stand.” The infinitive absolute emphasizes the following finite verb. The translation attempts to bring ou...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Isa 22:1-25 - --1 The prophet laments the invasion of Jewry.8 He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy.15 He prophesies Shebna's deprivation,20 and the substitu...

MHCC: Isa 22:1-7 - --Why is Jerusalem in such terror? Her slain men are not slain with the sword, but with famine; or, slain with fear, disheartened. Their rulers fled, bu...

Matthew Henry: Isa 22:1-7 - -- The title of this prophecy is very observable. It is the burden of the valley of vision, of Judah and Jerusalem; so all agree. Fitly enough is Jer...

Keil-Delitzsch: Isa 22:6-7 - -- The advance of the besiegers, which leads to the destruction of the walls, is first described in Isa 22:6, Isa 22:7. "And Elam has taken the quiver...

Constable: Isa 7:1--39:8 - --III. Israel's crisis of faith chs. 7--39 This long section of the book deals with Israel's major decision in Isa...

Constable: Isa 13:1--35:10 - --B. God's sovereignty over the nations chs. 13-35 This major section of the book emphasizes the folly of ...

Constable: Isa 13:1--23:18 - --1. Divine judgments on the nations chs. 13-23 The recurrence of the Hebrew word massa', translat...

Constable: Isa 21:1--23:18 - --The second series of five oracles chs. 21-23 Compared to the first series of oracles aga...

Constable: Isa 22:1-25 - --The oracle against Jerusalem ch. 22 As in the first series of oracles, God's people occupy the fourth place in this second series, which points farthe...

Guzik: Isa 22:1-25 - --Isaiah 22 - Judgment on Jerusalem A. Isaiah denounces the city of Jerusalem. 1. (1-4) Isaiah is grieved over a joyous city. The burden against the...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Isaiah (Book Introduction) ISAIAH, son of Amoz (not Amos); contemporary of Jonah, Amos, Hosea, in Israel, but younger than they; and of Micah, in Judah. His call to a higher deg...

JFB: Isaiah (Outline) PARABLE OF JEHOVAH'S VINEYARD. (Isa. 5:1-30) SIX DISTINCT WOES AGAINST CRIMES. (Isa. 5:8-23) (Lev 25:13; Mic 2:2). The jubilee restoration of posses...

TSK: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah has, with singular propriety, been denominated the Evangelical Prophet, on account of the number and variety of his prophecies concerning the a...

TSK: Isaiah 22 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Isa 22:1, The prophet laments the invasion of Jewry; Isa 22:8, He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy; Isa 22:15, He prophesies S...

Poole: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE ARGUMENT THE teachers of the ancient church were of two sorts: 1. Ordinary, the priests and Levites. 2. Extraordinary, the prophets. These we...

Poole: Isaiah 22 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 22 The anguish of Judah: the prophet much grieved, Isa 22:1-5 , by the Persians, Medes, and Assyrians, Isa 22:6,7 . He reproveth their huma...

MHCC: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Isaiah prophesied in the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He has been well called the evangelical prophet, on account of his numerous and...

MHCC: Isaiah 22 (Chapter Introduction) (Isa 22:1-7) The siege and taking of Jerusalem. (Isa 22:8-14) The wicked conduct of its inhabitants. (Isa 22:15-25) The displacing of Shebna, and th...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Book of the Prophet Isaiah Prophet is a title that sounds very great to those that understand it, t...

Matthew Henry: Isaiah 22 (Chapter Introduction) We have now come nearer home, for this chapter is " the burden of the valley of vision," Jerusalem; other places had their burden for the sake of ...

Constable: Isaiah (Book Introduction) Introduction Title and writer The title of this book of the Bible, as is true of the o...

Constable: Isaiah (Outline) Outline I. Introduction chs. 1-5 A. Israel's condition and God's solution ch. 1 ...

Constable: Isaiah Isaiah Bibliography Alexander, Joseph Addison. Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah. 1846, 1847. Revised ed. ...

Haydock: Isaiah (Book Introduction) THE PROPHECY OF ISAIAS. INTRODUCTION. This inspired writer is called by the Holy Ghost, (Ecclesiasticus xlviii. 25.) the great prophet; from t...

Gill: Isaiah (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH This book is called, in the New Testament, sometimes "the Book of the Words of the Prophet Esaias", Luk 3:4 sometimes only t...

Gill: Isaiah 22 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO ISAIAH 22 This chapter contains two prophecies, one concerning the invasion of Judah and Jerusalem, not by the Medes and Persians, ...

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