Isaiah 22:8-9

22:8 They ¹  removed the defenses ²  of Judah.

At that time ³  you looked

for the weapons in the House of the Forest. ⁴ 

22:9 You saw the many breaks

in the walls of the city of David; ⁵ 

you stored up water in the lower pool.

[22:8]  ¹ tn Heb “he,” i.e., the enemy invader. NASB, by its capitalization of the pronoun, takes this to refer to the Lord.

[22:8]  ² tn Heb “covering.”

[22:8]  ³ tn Heb “in that day” (so KJV), likewise at the beginning of v. 12.

[22:8]  ⁴ sn Perhaps this refers to a royal armory, or to Solomon’s “House of the Forest of Lebanon,” where weapons may have been kept (see 1 Kgs 10:16-17).

[22:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “the breaks of the city of David, you saw that they were many.”