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, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
1 Samuel 3:1And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered; Of a truth I am a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? thou Jordan, that thou turnest 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 did see.
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 →