Isaiah 22:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. ”

• Isaiah 22:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Behold, the Lord will carry thee away - Of the historical fact here referred to we have no other information. To what place he was to be carried, we know not. It is probable, however, that it was...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Shebna to be Deposed and Eliakim Installed in his Office. This denunciation of Shebna, who seems to have been a foreigner, was probably due to the obnoxious character of his policy. Presumably he f...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah. App-4. will carry thee away with. mighty captivity, &c. . will hurl thee with the hurling of [a mighty] man.

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. Behold, the Lord will carry thee away. As if he had said, “Thou shalt be cast out of that place into a distant country, where thou shalt die ignominiously.” גבר ( gĕbĕr) is commonly tr...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. Cover thee - That is, thy face. This was the condition of mourners in general, and particularly of condemned...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Behold, &c.— Or, Behold, the Lord will throw thee out hence with a mighty throw, &c. Isaiah 22:18 . He will toss and whirl thee, as if he were whirling a ball, &c. and there [ sh...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. Carry thee away with a mighty captivity - rather, mªTalTelkaa ( H2904 ) TalTeelaah ( H2925...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Denunciation of Shebna This section contains Isaiah's only invective against an individual. He denounces Shebna, the king's chief minister, who may have been a leader of the party which favoured a...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - 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,...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - 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...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The removal of Shebna from the office of treasurer, no doubt, took place in the history of Judah; perhaps in the event of the invasion. But the introduction of the subject here seems to have referenc...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity ,.... Or with the captivity of a man; so the Targum, of a mighty man, Sennacherib king of Assyria; who, as the Jews say z, when he went...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. Ver. 17. Behold, the Lord will carry thee away, &c. ] Or, Is casting thee out with casting, O thou mi...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  What hast thou here? Or, What dost thou here? What right hast thou to this place and office? And whom hast thou here? What relations or family? That thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre That...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Downfall of Shebna; The Advancement of Eliakim. B. C. 714.       15 Thus saith the Lord...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  I will carry thee away with a mighty captivity; will cause thee to be carried into captivity by a strong hand, or by the hand of a mighty man, from which therefore thou shalt not be able to escape....

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Self-Important First Minister ( Isaiah 22:15-19 ). The first to be dealt with is Shebna, the self-important First Minister. God determined to get him out of the way to a place where he could d...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - 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...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Shebna Shebna In the councils of Hezekiah there was a strong party favourable to an alliance between Judah and Egypt. At the head of the party stood Shebna. He occupied a post corresponding to...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - 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...

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• Isaiah 22:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Oracle Against Shebna

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Esther 7:8 ; Isaiah 22:18 ; Jeremiah 14:3 ; Job 9:24

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• Isaiah 22:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  Will carry — Will cause thee to be carried into captivity by a strong hand. Cover — This may be an allusion to the ancient custom of covering the faces of condemned persons.

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