Isaiah 22:19

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹⁵Thus says the Lord GOD of Hosts: "Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: 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? ¹⁷Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 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. ¹⁹I will depose you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.²⁰On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 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. ²²I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. What he opens, no one can shut; what he shuts, no one can open. 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. ²⁴So they will hang on him the whole burden of his father's house: the descendants and the offshoots-all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

Bible Verse Review
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Job 40:11, Job 40:12, Psalms 75:6, Psalms 75:7, Ezekiel 17:24, Luke 1:52

Reciprocal: Esther 8:2 - his ring Ezekiel 28:16 - therefore

Cross-References

Genesis 21:31
So that place was called Beersheba, because it was there that the two of them swore an oath.

Joshua 15:28
Hazar-shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,

Judges 20:1
Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will drive thee from thy station,.... Or thou shalt be driven from it, according to my word; this is said by the prophet, and expresses his being degraded from his office by the king, according to the will of God:

and from thy state shall he pull thee down; either the king his master, or the Lord, who, by his providence, would so order it, that it should be: the phrases express indignation and force, and an entire removal of him from all offices in the king's house or government; for it does not at all seem likely, what is commonly suggested, that he was removed from his office of treasurer, or steward of the king's house, and put into a lower office, and made a scribe, as he is called,

Isaiah 37:2 besides, the words preceding show that he should be carried captive into another land.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And from thy state - From thy office; thy place of trust and responsibility.

Shall he pull thee down - That is, “God” shall do it. The prophet here uses the third person instead of the first. Such a change of person is very common in the writings of the prophets (see Stuart’s “Heb. Gram.” 563-565, sixth Ed.)

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 22:19. I will drive thee — אהרסך ehersecha, in the first person, Syr. Vulg.