Isaiah 22:7

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹This is an oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops, ²O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle. ³All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place. 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." 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. ⁶Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield. ⁷Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

thy choicest valleys: Heb. the choice of thy valleys

full: Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Isaiah 10:28-32, Isaiah 37:34, Jeremiah 39:1-3

at: or, toward

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 19:17 - and set Jeremiah 1:15 - and they

Cross-References

Genesis 8:20
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. Taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.

Genesis 22:2
"Take your son," God said, "your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you."

Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

Exodus 12:3
Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

Matthew 26:39
Going a little farther, He fell facedown and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will."

Matthew 26:42
A second time He went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cup cannot pass unless I drink it, may Your will be done."

John 18:11
"Put your sword back in its sheath!" Jesus said to Peter. "Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given Me?"

Romans 8:15
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys,.... The valleys that were near Jerusalem, that used to be covered with the choicest corn or vines, or with grass and flocks of sheep, and used to be exceeding delightful and pleasant:

shall be full of chariots; where they can be more easily driven than on mountains; these were chariots not for pleasure, but for war; chariots full of soldiers, to fight against and besiege Jerusalem:

and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate: to take them that come out of the city, and to force their way into it; as well as to protect and defend the foot, while they made the assault, and scaled the walls, and to be ready when the gates were opened to them.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thy choicest valleys - Hebrew, ‘The choice of thy galleys;’ meaning the most fertile and most valued lands in the vicinity of the city. The rich and fertile vales around Jerusalem would be occupied by the armies of the Assyrian monarch. What occurs in this verse and the following verses to Isaiah 22:14, is a prophetic description of what is presented historically in Isaiah 36:0, and 2 Chronicles 32:0. The coincidence is so exact, that it leaves no room to doubt that the invasion here described was that which took place under Sennacherib.

Set themselves in array - Hebrew, ‘Placing shall place themselves;’ that is, they shall be drawn up for battle; they shall besiege the city, and guard it from all ingress or egress. Rabshakeh, sent by Sennacherib to besiege the city, took his station at the upper pool, and was so near the city that he could converse with the people on the walls Isaiah 36:11-13.