Isaiah 22:16
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| Overview - Isaiah 22 | |
| 1 | The prophet laments the invasion of Jewry. |
| 8 | He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy. |
| 15 | He prophesies Shebna's deprivation, |
| 20 | and the substitution of Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ. |
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Isaiah 22:16 (King James Version)
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
- What hast
- 52:5 Micah 2:10
- hewed
- There are some monuments still remaining in Persia, of great antiquity, says Bp. Lowth, called Naksi Rustam, which give a clear idea of Shebna's pompous design for his sepulchre. They consist of several sepulchres, each of them hewn in a high rock near the top. The front of the rock to the valley below is adorned with carved work in relief, being the outside of the sepulchre. Some of these sepulchres are about thirty feet in the perpendicular from the valley, which is itself raised perhaps about half as much by the accumulation of the earth since they were made.
- 14:18 2 Samuel 18:18 ; 2 Chronicles 16:14 ; Job 3:14 ; Matthew 27:60
- as he
- or, O he.