Isaiah 22:2 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 22:2

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

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ASV

O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

KJV

Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Thou that art full of stirs - Of tumult, of commotion, of alarm. Or, perhaps, this whole description may mean that it was formerly a city distinguished for the hum of business, or for pleasure; a busy, active, enterprising city. The Hebrew will bear this, but I prefer the former interpretation, as indicating mingled alarm and consternation, and at the same time a disposition to engage in riot and revelry. A joyous city - A city exulting; rejoicing; given to pleasure, and to riot.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Slain with famine (so some); for Sennacherib's army having laid the country waste, and destroyed the fruits of the earth, provisions must needs be very scarce and dear in the city, which would be the death of many of the poorer sort of people, who would be constrained to feed on that which was unwholesome.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
תְּשֻׁא֣וֹת׀	te.shu.'ot	noises	H8663 →
מְלֵאָ֗ה	me.le.'Ah	full	H4392 →
עִ֚יר	'ir	O city	H5892 →
הֽוֹמִיָּ֔ה	ho.mi.Yah	turbulent	H1993 →
קִרְיָ֖ה	kir.Yah	O town	H7151 →
עַלִּיזָ֑ה	'a.li.Zah	jubilant	H5947 →
חֲלָלַ֙יִךְ֙	cha.la.La.yikh	slain [ones] your	H2491 →
לֹ֣א	lo'	not	H3808 →
חַלְלֵי־	cha.lei-	[are] slain of	H2491 →
חֶ֔רֶב	Che.rev	a sword	H2719 →
וְלֹ֖א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
מֵתֵ֥י	me.Tei	[are] dead of	H4191 →
מִלְחָמָֽה׃	mil.cha.Mah	battle	H4421 →

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Where the connections lead

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Through
Jeremiah 14:18
If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land…
leads to
- Ezekiel 7:15
  The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.
- Lamentations 1:20
  See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.
- Jeremiah 8:10
  Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all…
Through
Lamentations 2:20
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
leads to
- Lamentations 4:10
  The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Jeremiah 19:9
  I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’
- Psalms 78:64
  His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Through
Jeremiah 52:6
By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.
leads to
- Jeremiah 39:2
  And on the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah’s eleventh year, the city was breached.
Through
Isaiah 32:13
and for the land of my people, overgrown with thorns and briers—even for every house of merriment in this city of revelry.
leads to
- Hosea 9:6
  For even if they flee destruction, Egypt will gather them and Memphis will bury them. Their precious silver will be taken over by thistles, and thorns will overrun their tents.

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