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    Isaiah 22

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    A city summoned to mourning answers with a feast, while one official is rolled into a ball and another is made into a peg for the family crockery.

    The feast in the Valley of Visionvv. 1–14

    The Valley of Vision is all rooftops, commotion, fleeing rulers, broken walls and cries to the mountains. Elam arrives with a quiver, Kir with a shield, and Jerusalem responds with the practical arts of panic: weapons, water, house-counting and demolition. Yet the summons is for mourning, and the answer is cattle, sheep, wine and a motto brisk enough to be carved on a tavern sign. The offence is not ignorance of danger; the walls are being repaired in full view of it. It is that the One who made and planned everything is not considered.

    Shebna's tomb and the flying officialvv. 15–19

    Shebna, steward of the palace, is found arranging an elevated tomb for himself. The reply is gloriously physical: the mighty man is shaken, rolled into a ball and slung into a wide land, while the chariots remain behind as a disgrace. His office is removed with the same briskness as his imagined permanence.

    The peg and the household vesselsvv. 20–25

    Eliakim son of Hilkiah is summoned into Shebna's place, dressed in the robe and sash, given authority and entrusted with the key to the house of David. He is pictured as a firm peg and a throne of glory, with the entire household hanging from him—descendants, offshoots, bowls and every kind of jar. Then, with the chapter's fondness for furniture that refuses to stay put, the peg gives way and the whole load falls.

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    1. Isa 22:1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

    2. Isa 22:2O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

    3. Isa 22:3All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

    4. Isa 22:4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

    5. Isa 22:5For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

    6. Isa 22:6Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

    7. Isa 22:7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.

    8. Isa 22:8He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.

    9. Isa 22:9You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

    10. Isa 22:10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

    11. Isa 22:11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

    12. Isa 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

    13. Isa 22:13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

    14. Isa 22:14The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

    15. Isa 22:15This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:

    16. Isa 22:16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

    17. Isa 22:17Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,

    18. Isa 22:18roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.

    19. Isa 22:19I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.

    20. Isa 22:20On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

    21. Isa 22:21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

    22. Isa 22:22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

    23. Isa 22:23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

    24. Isa 22:24So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

    25. Isa 22:25In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

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    • 22Revelation 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
    • 22Matthew 16:18–19And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
    • 22Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
    • 22Matthew 18:18–19Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
    • 22Revelation 1:18the Living One. I was dead, and behold, now I am alive forever and ever! And I hold the keys of Death and of Hades.
    • 13Isaiah 56:12“Come, let me get the wine, let us imbibe the strong drink, and tomorrow will be like today, only far better!”
    • 20Isaiah 36:3Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to him.
    • 202 Kings 18:18Then they called for the king. And Eliakim son of Hilkiah the palace administrator, Shebnah the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the recorder, went out to them.
    • 12Micah 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.
    • 12Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
    • 14Ezekiel 24:13Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.
    • 20Isaiah 37:2And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz
    • 1Jeremiah 21:13Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
    • 2Isaiah 32:13and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
    • 4Jeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.
    • 62 Kings 16:9So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.

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