Isaiah 22:10 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. ”

Isaiah 22:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem - That is, you have taken an estimate of their number so as to ascertain how many can be spared to be pulled down to repair the walls; or you have mad...
Isaiah 22:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And ye have numbered the houses (m) of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. (m) Either to pull down such as might hurt, or else to know what men they were able to make....
Isaiah 22:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem's Inexcusable Frivolity. The prophecy apparently belongs to the time of Sennacherib's invasion. Its menacing tone contrasts with that of some other prophecies of the time. The people had...
Isaiah 22:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

10. And you numbered the houses of Jerusalem. He means that the city was closely examined on all sides, that there might not be a house or building which was not defended. Others think that...
Isaiah 22:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Isaiah 22:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And thou didst look in that day, &c.— Or, And thou shalt look, &c. The verbs may be rendered throughout in the future. The third member of the former part contains the causes of these jud...
Isaiah 22:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. Numbered the houses of Jerusalem - namely, in order to see which of them may be pulled do...
Isaiah 22:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Jerusalem Rebuked A severe rebuke of the conduct of the people of Jerusalem in a time of calamity. The crisis refered to cannot be certainly identified. The difficulty in assigning the passage to...
Isaiah 22:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

BOOK 4 JERUSALEM AND SENNACHERIB 701 B.C. INTO this fourth book we put all the rest of the prophecies of the Book of Isaiah, that have to do with the prophet's own time: Chapter s 1, 22 and 33,...
Isaiah 22:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

In the midst of the prophecies concerning the nations occurs one of protest against the indifference of Jerusalem to the prophet's messages. He first describes the joyous people as they stand in cont...
Isaiah 22:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Whatever were the histories in the siege of Judah, as this scripture records, I stay not to inquire; but I think, without violence to the expressions, by the uncovering of Judah, and the breaches of...
Isaiah 22:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem ,.... To know what number of men were in them, and how many could be spared to do duty, either as watchmen or soldiers; or to know how to levy the tax, a...
Isaiah 22:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. Ver. 10. And ye have numbered. ] This they did not till now, that they might make the city mor...
Isaiah 22:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And he Namely, the enemy Sennacherib, of whose invasion he seems to speak; discovered the covering of Judah Took those fenced cities which were a covering or safeguard, both to the people of Juda...
Isaiah 22:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Contempt of Divine Goodness; Contempt of Divine Judgments. B. C. 718. 8 And he discove...
Isaiah 22:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem; that they might exactly know their own strength, and the number of their people, and so lay the burdens more equally upon them, and make sufficient provisi...
Isaiah 22:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

God's People Must Choose Between Excessive And Unjustified Hilarity Resulting From False Confidence, or Mourning Over Sin and Trusting In Him ( Isaiah 22:1-11 ) Jerusalem is seen as having become...
Isaiah 22:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:1 . The valley of vision. A valley near Jerusalem, so called because of a school of the prophets said to have been there. Isaiah 22:3 . All thy rulers are fled. All thy captains of h...
Isaiah 22:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Isaiah 22:1-23 A PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM . The prophet, present in Jerusalem, either actually, or at any rate in spirit, sees the inhabitants crowded together upon the...
Isaiah 22:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oracle of the Valley of Vision
Isaiah 22:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 7:5 ; Exodus 34:13 ; Leviticus 15:13 ; Leviticus 15:28 ; Leviticus 23:15
Isaiah 22:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Numbered — That they might exactly know their own strength. The houses — Which stood upon or without the walls, and so gave their enemies advantage, and hindered the fortifying the city.

Isaiah 22:10 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 22:10 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 22:10 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 22:10 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:10 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 22:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:10 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:10 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 22:10 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 22:10 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 22:10 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes