Isaiah 22:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 22:17

Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,

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ASV

Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.

KJV

Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 15, 16, etc.) Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: Go, enter to him who dwells in the tabernacle, to Shebna, the overseer of the temple, and say to him: What are you doing here? or who are you here? for you have carved out a sepulchre here for yourself. You have carved out a lofty memorial for yourself diligently in the rock for your tent. Behold, the Lord will cast you down as one is cast down, like a cockerel; and he will lift you up like a cloak.

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The Church Fathers1 voice

Eusebius of Caesarea

COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 148:6-20 (339)

For all these things will work for your destruction [i.e., Shebna's], since you have been deposed and rejected from the high priesthood, of which you showed yourself unworthy, God being a just judge who gives to each according to his worth. On you, then, he will bring these things; but on the other, Eliakim, whom he has assessed as his good servant and slave, he will invest with your robe and will honor by placing on him the crown of the high priesthood, whose ministry you had hitherto been entrusted with. For he is a man worthy of it.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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 from Jerusalem, upon the rumour of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia coming against him, carried away Shebna and his company, as with an inundation: or as a man is carried captive, whose captivity is harder, and more severe and cruel, than a woman's, as the Rabbins (a) observe; a woman finding more mercy in captivity usually than a man does.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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 to Assyria. With a mighty captivity - Hebrew, גבר geber - ‘Of a man,’ or perhaps, ‘O man.’ If it means ‘the captivity of a man,’ the sense is, a strong, irresistible, mighty captivity where the word “man” is emphatic, and means such as a mighty man would make.

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֤ה	hi.Neh	there!	H2009 →
יְהוָה֙	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
מְטַלְטֶלְךָ֔	me.tal.tel.Kha	[is] about to hurl away you	H2904 →
טַלְטֵלָ֖ה	tal.te.Lah	hurling	H2925 →
גָּ֑בֶר	Ga.ver	O man	H1397 →
וְעֹטְךָ֖	ve.'o.te.Kha	and [is] about to grasp you	H5844 →
עָטֹֽה׃	'a.Toh	completely <to grasp>	H5844 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5844veotekhaand [is] about to grasp you17×

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 14:3
The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 15:30
  But David continued up the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went up. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. And all the people with him covered their heads and went up,…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 2:13
  “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.
- Psalms 40:14
  May those who seek my life be ashamed and confounded; may those who wish me harm be repelled and humiliated.
Through
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
leads to
- Job 10:3
  Does it please You to oppress me, to reject the work of Your hands and favor the schemes of the wicked?
- Psalms 73:3–7
  For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
- Jeremiah 12:1–2
  Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live…
Through
Esther 7:8
Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I…
leads to
- Esther 1:6
  Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of…
- Esther 6:12
  Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief.

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Isaiah