Isaiah 22:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

Violently turn and toss thee - literally, whirling, He will whirl thee; i:e., He will, without intermission, whirl thee (Maurer). 'He will whirl thee round and round, and (then) cast thee away' as a stone in a sling is first whirled round repeatedly before the string is let go (Lowth).

Into a large country - perhaps Assyria.

There the chariots ... (shall be) the shame of thy Lord's house - it shall be a reproach to Hezekiah that he had been so weak as to elevate thee, and enable thee to have such chariots; or else thy glorious chariots which formerly thou hadst shall be the shame of thy lord's house, in that thou didst defile that house which was as it were God's sanctuary (Calvin). Rather, 'thy splendid chariots shall be there (or else, shall die with thee), oh then disgrace of thy lord's house (Noyes); "chariots of thy glory," mean 'thy magnificent chariots.' It is not meant that be would have these in a distant land, as he had in Jerusalem, but that he would be borne there in ignominy, instead of in his magnificent chariots. The sense is, I think, the only 'chariots of glory' that thou shalt have "there" will be the reproach which thou shalt bear, of having been "the shame of thy lord's house:" instead of thy former chariots of glory, thou shalt have the reproach of having been the shame of thy lord's house. The Jews say that he was tied to the tails of horses by the enemy, to whom he had designed to betray Jerusalem, as they thought he was mocking them; and so he died.

Isaiah 22:18

18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a largec country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.