Isaiah 22:7

7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.

Isaiah 22:7 in Other Translations

KJV
7 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
ESV
7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
NLT
7 Chariots fill your beautiful valleys, and charioteers storm your gates.
MSG
7 Your fine valleys are noisy with war, chariots and cavalry charging this way and that.
CSB
7 Your best valleys were full of chariots, and horsemen were positioned at the gates.

Isaiah 22:7 Meaning and Commentary

Isaiah 22:7

And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys,
&c.] The valleys that were near Jerusalem, that used to be covered with the choicest corn or vines, or with grass and flocks of sheep, and used to be exceeding delightful and pleasant: shall be full of chariots;
where they can be more easily driven than on mountains; these were chariots not for pleasure, but for war; chariots full of soldiers, to fight against and besiege Jerusalem: and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate:
to take them that come out of the city, and to force their way into it; as well as to protect and defend the foot, while they made the assault, and scaled the walls, and to be ready when the gates were opened to them.

Isaiah 22:7 In-Context

5 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9 You saw that the walls of the City of David were broken through in many places; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Joshua 15:8
  • 2. S 2 Chronicles 32:1-2
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