Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.
1 Samuel 3:1The child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. The LORD’s word was rare in those days. There were not many visions, then.
2 Samuel 14:5The king said to her, “What ails you?” She answered, “Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned 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 →