Isaiah 22:11
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
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10And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
Cross References
2 Kings 20:20Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and his power, and how he made the pool and the stream, to take water into the town, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 6:6But now I have made selection of Jerusalem, that my name might be there, and of David, to be over my people Israel.
2 Chronicles 32:3He took up with his rulers and men of war the question of stopping up the water-springs outside the town; and they gave him their support.
Isaiah 7:3Then the Lord said to Isaiah, Go out now, you and Shear-jashub, your son, and you will come across Ahaz at the end of the stream flowing from the higher pool, in the highway of the washerman's field;
Isaiah 17:7In that day a man's heart will be turned to his Maker, and his eyes to the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 37:26Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 22:9-15
Contempt of Divine Goodness; Contempt of Divine Judgments. ( b. c. 718.) 8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not… Read the whole commentary →