Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, you shall make a wall around the roof. Otherwise, someone may slip and fall down violently, and so blood would be shed at your house, and you would be guilty.
1 Samuel 3:1Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the Lord before Eli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days; there was no manifest vision.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her, “What problem do you have?” And she responded: “Alas, I am a woman who is a widow. For my husband has died.
Psalms 114:5Merciful is the Lord, and just. And our God is compassionate.
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 →