Isaiah 22:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncoveredb the shield. ”

Isaiah 22:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And Elam - The southern part of Persia, perhaps used here to denote Persia in general (see the note at Isaiah 21:2 ). Elam, or Persia, was at this time subject to Assyria, and their forces were...
Isaiah 22:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

And Elam (i) bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. (i) He reminds them how God delivered them once from Sennacherib, who brought the Persians and Syrians...
Isaiah 22:6 - 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 22:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Elam. Kir. The south and north limits of the Chaldsean forces. quiver. Hebrew. 'ashpah. Occurs only here in "former" portion, and only in Isaiah 49:2 in the "latter" portion. chariots. Se...
Isaiah 22:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. But Elam carrying the quiver. Here commentators think that the discourse proceeds without any interruption, and that he makes known to the Jews the same judgment which he formerly proclai...
Isaiah 22:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. Chariots of men "The Syriac" - It is not easy to say what רכב אדם recheb adam, a chariot of men, can mean....
Isaiah 22:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

And Elam, &c.— And Elam beareth the quiver; with chariots cometh the Syrian, and with horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield. Lowth. The second member of the first part of this prophesy begi...
Isaiah 22:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. Elam - the country stretching east from the Lower Tigris, answering to what was afterward called Pers...
Isaiah 22:6 - 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 22:6 - 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 22:6 - 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 22:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The Prophet, like a true servant of the Lord, though himself had the least hand in bringing down the judgments of God, yet he will be the first to lament them. Alas! when God's corrections are in our...
Isaiah 22:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen ,.... Or the Elamites, as the Targum and Septuagint, that is, the Persians, who were at this time subject to the Assyrians, and served in...
Isaiah 22:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. Ver. 6. And Elam, ] i.e., The Persians (great archers, as Corabo testifieth, lib. xvi.), as Kir sta...
Isaiah 22:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And Elam bare the quiver This second member of the first part of this prophecy, which begins here, seems evidently to refer to the Assyrian invasion; for the Medes and Elamites, or Persians, were u...
Isaiah 22:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Consternation of Jerusalem. B. C. 718. 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ai...
Isaiah 22:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Elam; the Persians, who now, and for a long time after. were subject to the Assyrian and Chaldean emperors, and were employed by them in their Wars. Bare the quiver, being expert bow-men, as appe...
Isaiah 22:6 - 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 22:6 - 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 22:6 - 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 22:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Oracle of the Valley of Vision
Isaiah 22:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 16:9 ; Amos 1:5 ; Amos 9:7 ; Genesis 10:22 ; Isaiah 15:1 ; Isaiah 21:2 ; Jeremiah 49:35-39
Isaiah 22:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Elam — The Persians, who now, and for a long time after, were subject to the Assyrian and Chaldean emperors. Quiver — Being expert bowmen. Horsemen — As some fought on foot, so others fought from c...

Isaiah 22:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 22:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 22:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 22:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 22:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 22:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 22:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 22:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 22:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 22:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 22:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes