Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 22:2
Noises — Of joyful shouts. Tumultuous — Through revelling and jollity. Battle — But either by famine or pestilence in the siege, or in their flight.
Noises — Of joyful shouts. Tumultuous — Through revelling and jollity. Battle — But either by famine or pestilence in the siege, or in their flight.
THOU THAT ART FULL OF STIRS - Of tumult, of commotion, of alarm. Or, perhaps, this whole description may mean that it was formerly a city distinguished for the hum of business, or for pleasure; a busy...
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...
JERUSALEM'S INEXCUSABLE FRIVOLITY. The prophecy apparently belongs to the time of Sennacherib's invasion. Its menacing tone contrasts with that of some other prophecies of the time. The people had pro...
STIRS. outcries. Referring to the time of this prophecy....
_full of stirs_ R.V. FULL OF SHOUTINGS. _joyous city_ JUBILANT CITY, as ch. Isaiah 32:13. A festive disposition seems to have characterised the inhabitants of Jerusalem in Isaiah's time; cf. also ch....
Isaiah 22:1-14. The inexpiable sin of Jerusalem The key to this passage the most lurid and minatory of all Isaiah's prophecies is the irreconcileable antagonism between the mood of the prophet and th...
The joy of the people and the sorrow of the prophet....
WHAT AILETH THEE NOW, &C.— The former part of this discourse sets forth the distress of Jerusalem from the Chaldees and Assyrians; and in these verses we have, _first,_ the fate of the city; the commo...
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 2. JUDAH a. IRREVERENT ATTITUDES TEXT: Isaiah 22:1-14 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 O thou that...
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. THOU THAT ART - rather, wast, for it could not now be said to be "a jo...
The joy is the forced gaiety of despair (Isaiah 22:13). SLAIN] It is implied that they have died through famine....
JERUSALEM REBUKED A severe rebuke of the conduct of the people of Jerusalem in a time of calamity. The crisis refered to cannot be certainly identified. The difficulty in assigning the passage to Sen...
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...
Isaiah is surprised that the happy people do not realise the real situation. An enemy is preparing to attack and Judah is without any proper defence....
תְּשֻׁאֹ֣ות ׀ מְלֵאָ֗ה עִ֚יר הֹֽומִיָּ֔ה קִרְיָ֖ה עַלִּיזָ֑ה...
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...
Thou that art full of (c) shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain (d) with the sword, nor dead in battle. (c) Which was wont to be full of people and joy. (d) But...
_Battle. He taxes the king with cowardice._...
The valley of vision, must mean Judah, for the Psalmist describes it as such, Psalms 125:2. And the holy city, Jerusalem, is called a land of vision, on account of the prophet's dwelling in it, and de...
2._Thou that art full of noises. _He means that it was exceedingly populous; for where great multitudes of people are brought together, noise abounds; and therefore, amidst so crowded a population, th...
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...
THOU ART FULL OF STIRS,.... Or, "wast full of stirs"; through the multitude of people walking about in it, and the vast hurry of business done in it; but now all hush and quiet, the streets clear of p...
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. Ver. 2. _Thou that art full of stirs._] _Clamoribus fragosis,_ _a_ How...
_The burden of the valley of vision_ Of Judah, and especially of Jerusalem, called a _valley_, because a great part of it stood in a valley between the opposite hills of Zion and Acra, and between Acr...
Thou that art, rather, "wert," FULL OF STIRS, of noisy and joyful tumult and excitement, A TUMULTUOUS CITY, A JOYOUS CITY, a fortress filled with jubilating people, THY SLAIN MEN ARE NOT SLAIN WITH TH...
THE ORACLE OF THE VALLEY OF VISION...
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, but were overtaken. The servants of God, who for...
THOU ART FULL OF STIRS; or, thou who wast full of stirs, or noises, to wit, of joyful shouts, as the following words limit it, and as this word is used, MALACHI 4:7, though elsewhere it be taken for d...
Isaiah 22:2 full H4392 noise H8663 tumultuous H1993 (H8802) city H5892 joyous H5947 city H7151 slain H2491 slain...
GOD'S PEOPLE MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN EXCESSIVE AND UNJUSTIFIED HILARITY RESULTING FROM FALSE CONFIDENCE, OR MOURNING OVER SIN AND TRUSTING IN HIM (ISAIAH 22:1) Jerusalem is seen as having become a scene o...
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...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 22:1 The fourth oracle shows the light of the world, Jerusalem, growing dark. ⇐ ⇔...
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...
Amos 6:3; Isaiah 22:12; Isaiah 22:13; Isaiah 23:7; Isaiah 32:13;...