Isaiah 22:1
A message about the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem). What's happening? Why has everyone gone up onto the rooftops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, be sure to install a railing around your roof, so that you won't be held guilty if someone dies falling from it.
1 Samuel 3:1The boy Samuel served before the Lord under Eli's supervision. At that time messages from the Lord were rare—visions were not common.
2 Samuel 14:5“What's the matter?” the king asked her. “Sadly I'm a widow. My husband is dead,” she replied.
Psalms 114:5Red Sea—why did you run away? Jordan River—why did you retreat?
Psalms 147:19He proclaims his word to Jacob; his rules and laws to Israel.
Isaiah 13:1This is the message Isaiah, son of Amoz, received about Babylon.
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 →