Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 22:7
Valleys — Valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots. Gate — To assist the footmen while they made their assault, and to prevent those who endeavoured to escape.
Valleys — Valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots. Gate — To assist the footmen while they made their assault, and to prevent those who endeavoured to escape.
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...
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...
AT. toward....
_And it shall come to pass_ strictly, AND IT CAME TO PASS, in the scene beheld by the prophet. _set themselves … gate_ TAKE UP THEIR STATION TOWARDS THE GATE....
The connexion here becomes very uncertain. It seems clear that Isaiah 22:5 (from its form) must refer to the future, while Isaiah 22:8 undoubtedly go back to what is past. The transition must apparent...
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...
AND ELAM, &C.— _And Elam beareth the quiver; with chariots cometh the Syrian, and with horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield._ Lowth. The second member of the first part of this prophesy begins here...
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...
And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. THY CHOICEST VALLEYS - east, north, and south of Jerusal...
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...
SHALL BE.. SHALL SET] RV 'were.. set.' S. DISCOVERED, etc.] RV 'took away the covering,' which concealed the danger from the people's eyes. THOU DIDST LOOK] The people of Judah are addressed. Instead...
Enemy forces are surrounding *Jerusalem to prepare for the final attack....
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...
וַ יְהִ֥י מִבְחַר ־עֲמָקַ֖יִךְ מָ֣לְאוּ רָ֑כֶב...
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...
The Prophet, like a true servant of the Lord, though himself had the least hand in bringing down the judgments of God, yet he will be the first to lament them. Alas! when God's corrections are in our...
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 li...
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, [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 t...
And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. Ver. 7. _Thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots._...
_And Elam bare the quiver_ This second member of the first part of this prophecy, which begins here, seems evidently to refer to the Assyrian invasion; for the Medes and Elamites, or Persians, were un...
And it shall come to pass that thy choicest valleys, the most fruitful sections of Judah, SHALL BE FULL OF CHARIOTS, AND THE HORSEMEN SHALL SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AT THE GATE, ready to storm the city...
THE ORACLE OF THE VALLEY OF VISION...
CHOICEST VALLEYS: _ Heb._ the choice of the valleys AT THE GATE: Or, towards...
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 CHOICEST VALLEYS SHALL BE FULL OF CHARIOTS: valleys were the most proper places for the use of chariots: see JOSHUA 17:16. THE HORSEMEN SHALL SET THEMSELVES IN ARRAY AT THE GATE, to assist and def...
Isaiah 22:7 choicest H4005 valleys H6010 full H4390 (H8804) chariots H7393 horsemen H6571 set H7896 (H8804) array...
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. ⇐ ⇔...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 22:7 FULL OF CHARIOTS. The jubilant shouting (v. Isaiah 22:2) is replaced by enemy chariots....
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...
Isaiah 10:28; Isaiah 37:34; Isaiah 8:7; Isaiah 8:8; Jeremiah 39:1...