Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What disturbs you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for your roof, that you bring not blood upon yours 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 disturbs you? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
Psalms 147:19He shows 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 →