Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one should in any wise fall from it.
1 Samuel 3:1And the boy Samuel ministered to Jehovah before Eli. And the word of Jehovah was rare in those days; a vision was not frequent.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her, What aileth thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
Psalms 147:19He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto 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 →