Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou mayest not bring blood upon thy house, if any man shall fall from thence.
1 Samuel 3:1And the child Samuel ministered to 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 to her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
Psalms 147:19He showeth his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments 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 →