Isaiah 22:6 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 22:6

Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

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ASV

And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

KJV

And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 6.) Searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain: and Elam took the quiver, the chariot of a man on horseback, and uncovered the shield the shield stripped the wall. The army of Babylon is described as entering the city, occupying the temple, and proudly advancing through the streets with chariots. And the fact that it uncovered the golden posts and the walls adorned with marble crusts, the shield that is used to cover others, elegantly resonates in Hebrew, and the meaning is most beautiful, that it did not protect anyone, but uncovered.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Chariots of men “The Syriac” - It is not easy to say what רכב אדם recheb adam, a chariot of men, can mean. It seems by the form of the sentence, which consists of three members, the first and the third mentioning a particular people, that the second should do so likewise.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְעֵילָם֙	ve.'ei.Lam	and Elam	H5867 →
נָשָׂ֣א	na.Sa'	it took up	H5375 →
אַשְׁפָּ֔ה	'ash.Pah	a quiver	H827 →
בְּרֶ֥כֶב	be.Re.khev	with chariotry of	H7393 →
אָדָ֖ם	'a.Dam	a man	H120 →
פָּֽרָשִׁ֑ים	pa.ra.Shim	horsemen	H6571 →
וְקִ֥יר	ve.Kir	and Kir	H7024 →
עֵרָ֖ה	'e.Rah	it uncovered	H6168 →
מָגֵֽן׃	ma.Gen	a shield	H4043 →

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

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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
Amos 1:5
I will break down the gates of Damascus; I will cut off the ruler of the Valley of Aven and the one who wields the scepter in Beth-eden. The people of Aram will be…
leads to
- 2 Kings 16:9
  So the king of Assyria responded to him, marched up to Damascus, and captured it. He took its people to Kir as captives and put Rezin to death.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Amos 9:7
  “Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 51:30
  The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
Through
Amos 9:7
“Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from…
leads to
- Jeremiah 47:4
  For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts…
- Deuteronomy 2:23
  And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor and settled in their place.)
- Jeremiah 9:25–26
  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will punish all who are circumcised yet uncircumcised:
Through
Isaiah 21:2
A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”
leads to
- Isaiah 33:1
  Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed.
- Jeremiah 49:34
  This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet concerning Elam at the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah.

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