Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Isaiah 22:20
I will call, by my Spirit fitting him, and by my powerful providence moving Hezekiah's heart to call him.
I will call, by my Spirit fitting him, and by my powerful providence moving Hezekiah's heart to call him.
MY SERVANT ELIAKIM - A man who will be faithful to me; who will be trustworthy, and to whom the interests of the city may be safely confided; a man who will not seek to betray it into the hands of the...
CHAPTER 22 The Burden of the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem) 1. _Jerusalem's deplorable state (Isaiah 22:1)_ 2. _The invading armies (Isaiah 22:5)_ 3. _The siege and the calamity (Isaiah 22:8)_ 4. Shebn...
SHEBNA TO BE DEPOSED AND ELIAKIM INSTALLED IN HIS OFFICE. This denunciation of Shebna, who seems to have been a foreigner, was probably due to the obnoxious character of his policy. Presumably he favo...
IN THAT DAY: i.e. in the day when this prophecy will be fulfilled. Compare Isaiah 22:25. ELIAKIM. Whom God sets up. Hezekiah's minister. Probably superseded by Shebna in the evil days of Manasseh. See...
Isaiah 22:15-25. A Philippic against an influential Politician Shebna, the minister here addressed, is supposed from his name and from Isaiah's indignation at his ambitious desire to have a magnifice...
Eliakim is called _my servant_as Isaiah is in ch. Isaiah 20:3....
The elevation of the head of the prophetic party at court....
b. INSOLENT AGENT TEXT: Isaiah 22:15-25 15 Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say, 16 What doest thou here? and...
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: ELIAKIM THE SON OF HILKIAH. Supposed by Kimchi to be the same as Azariah, son of Hilkiah, who perhaps...
DENUNCIATION OF SHEBNA This section contains Isaiah's only invective against an individual. He denounces Shebna, the king's chief minister, who may have been a leader of the party which favoured allia...
People must choose between trust in God and trust in human effort. In fact, whole nations must choose between trust in God and trust in human effort. These verses show this principle....
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 22 GOD WARNS *JERUSALEM V1 (A special message that God gave to Isaiah about *Jerusal...
וְ הָיָ֖ה בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֑וּא...
BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33, wit...
In the midst of the prophecies concerning the nations occurs one of protest against the indifference of Jerusalem to the prophet's messages. He first describes the joyous people as they stand in contr...
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will (u) call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: (u) To be steward again, out of which office he had been put, by the craft of Shebna....
_Eliacim, who had been displaced, ver. 15. He acted as regent after the departure of Manasses, who always followed his counsels at his return, Judith iv. 5. The priesthood was not then incompatible wi...
The Prophet gives, in these verses, a very pleasing account of the character of Eliakim, and of the Lord's approbation of him. I confess myself inclined to drop all considerations of the servant, to l...
20._And it shall come to pass in that day. _It is uncertain at what time Eliakim was substituted in the room of Shebna; for we shall see, in the thirty-seventh chapter, that Eliakim was steward of the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 THROUGH 23. In Chapter s 19 and 20 Egypt shall be smitten in that day; but Jehovah will heal it. Egypt, Assyria, and Israel shall together be blessed of Je...
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY,.... At the same time that Shebna was deposed from his high station: THAT I WILL CALL MY SERVANT ELIAKIM, THE SON OF HILKIAH; whom Kimchi thinks was the same wit...
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: Ver. 20. _I will call my servant Eliakim._] Such as honour God shall surely be honoured. He will call th...
_I will call my servant Eliakim_ By my Spirit fitting him for the work, and moving the heart of Hezekiah to call him to it. _And I will clothe him with, thy robe_, &c. There was a peculiar sort of rob...
THE ORACLE AGAINST SHEBNA...
And it shall come to pass in that day, when Shebna would be deposed, THAT I WILL CALL MY SERVANT ELIAKIM, THE SON OF HILKIAH, who may have been the same as Azariah, 1 Chronicles 6:13;...
15-25 This message to Shebna is a reproof of his pride, vanity, and security; what vanity is all earthly grandeur, which death will so soon end! What will it avail, whether we are laid in a magnifice...
Isaiah 22:20 day H3117 call H7121 (H8804) servant H5650 Eliakim H471 son H1121 Hilkiah H2518 Eliakim -...
ELIAKIM THE NEPOTIST (ISAIAH 22:20). This is the second failing First Minister. In some way Eliakim's case is sadder than that of Shebna. His life and service was so promising, but it was ruined by ne...
THE TWO MINISTERS (ISAIAH 22:15). This passage is presumably intended to come under the general heading of the Burden of the Valley of Vision, indicating problems among the leadership as well as among...
CONTENTS: The burden of the valley of vision, telling of coming grievous distress. CHARACTERS: God, Isaiah, Elam, Kir, Shebna, Eliakim. CONCLUSION: When God threatens His people with judgment, He ex...
Isaiah 22:1. _The valley of vision._ A valley near Jerusalem, so called because of a school of the prophets said to have been there. Isaiah 22:3. _All thy rulers are fled._ All thy captains of hundred...
_My servant Eliakim_ “MY SERVANT ELIAKIM” Who was he? Nobody can tell. Where else is he referred to in Holy Writ? Probably nowhere. Was he then a man without renown? That depends upon what you mean...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 22:1 The fourth oracle shows the light of the world, Jerusalem, growing dark. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 22:20 MY SERVANT. See Isaiah 20:3; Isaiah 37:35;...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 22:1 A PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM. The prophet, present in Jerusalem, either actually, or at any rate in spirit, _sees _the inhabitants crowded together upon the housetops, in a sta...
Now in chapter 22 he turns his attention to Jerusalem, which is referred to as the valley of vision. And this is, The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that you've gone up to the h...
2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:11; Isaiah 36:22; Isaiah 36:3
Call — By my powerful providence....