Rulers — Zedekiah and his chief commanders, whose flight he foretells. Found — That remain there with Zedekiah in the siege; for those who had fled to the Chaldeans saved their lives and liberties. Bound — In fetters, Jeremiah 52:11. Fled — Who fled from Jerusalem, but were pursued and overtaken by their enemies, and bound, as others had been.
Verse Isaiah 22:3. _ALL THY RULERS - ARE BOUND BY THE ARCHERS_ - "All thy leaders - are fled from the bow"] There seems to be somewhat of an inconsistency in the sense according to the present readin...
ALL THY RULERS ARE FLED TOGETHER - The general idea in this verse is plain. It is designed to describe the consternation which would take place on the approach of the invader, and especially the timid...
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...
FROM FAR. afar, or far away....
The joy of the people and the sorrow of the prophet....
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...
_thy rulers_ THY CHIEFTAINS, the same word as in Isaiah 1:10, there in its civil, here in its military sense. _they are bound by the archers_ Better: WITHOUT BOW (which they had thrown away) THEY WER...
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...
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. ALL THY RULERS - or generals (Joshua 10:24; Judges 11:6;...
22:3 bow. (c-13) Possibly meaning, 'made prisoners by the archers.'...
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...
_Which._. FAR] RV 'they fled afar off.'...
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...
כָּל ־קְצִינַ֥יִךְ נָֽדְדוּ ־יַ֖חַד מִ קֶּ֣שֶׁת...
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...
All thy rulers have fled together, they are (e) bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [who] have fled from (f) far. (e) And led into captivity. (f) Who have fled from...
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...
3._All thy rulers are fled together. _This verse has been interpreted in various ways. The fact is abundantly plain, but there is some difficulty about the words. As מ (_mem_) signifies _before _and _...
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...
ALL THY RULERS ARE FLED TOGETHER,.... Either the rulers of Jerusalem, civil and ecclesiastical, that should have been at the head of the people, and have encouraged them, fled together to the housetop...
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [which] have fled from far. Ver. 3. _All thy rulers are fled together._] _Vagantur,_ As...
_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...
THE ORACLE OF THE VALLEY OF VISION...
All thy rulers, the officers of the Jewish army, ARE FLED TOGETHER, THEY ARE BOUND BY THE ARCHERS, taken captive with ease, because they are without weapons, they do not even draw a bow to defend them...
BY THE ARCHERS: _ Heb._ of the bow...
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...
THY RULERS; Zedekiah and his chief commanders, whose flight he foretells. THEY ARE BOUND BY THE ARCHERS, Heb. _from the bow_, i.e. so as they were disenabled from using the bow; which is a usual Hebra...
Isaiah 22:3 rulers H7101 fled H5074 (H8804) together H3162 captured H631 (H8795) archers H7198 found H4672 ...
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...
2 Kings 25:18; 2 Kings 25:4; Isaiah 3:1; Jeremiah 39:4; Jer