Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles thee now, that thou have wholly gone up to the housetops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When thou build a new house, then thou shall make a guard rail for thy roof, that thou not bring blood upon thy house, if any man falls from there.
1 Samuel 3:1And the child Samuel served LORD before Eli. And the word of LORD was precious in those days; there was no frequent vision.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her, What troubles thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?
Psalms 147:19He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 22:1
We have now come nearer home, for this chapter is "the burden of the valley of vision," Jerusalem; other places had their burden for the sake of their being concerned in some way or other with Jerusalem, and were reckoned with either as spiteful enemies or deceitful friends to the people of God; but now let Jerusalem hear her own doom. This chapter concerns, I. The city of Jerusalem itself and the neighbourhood depending upon it. Here is, 1. A prophecy of the grievous distress they should shortly be brought into… Read the whole commentary →