Isaiah Chapter 22

The Burden of Jerusalem

Burdens are judgments, countries around Israel, each representing a system, principle or philosophy of man, same today as well
Babylon: The World
Moab:
Damascus:
Egypt
Desert of the Sea
Dumah
Edom: the Flesh
Arabia: War

2 Chronicles 32:2-6
And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem, He took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the fountains which were without the city: and they did help him. So there was gathered much people together, who stopped all the fountains, and the brook that ran through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance. And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake comfortably to them, saying,

In preparation for war, Hezekiah built walls to hold the water, still seen there today
He also made weapons (darts) and shields for protection in battle

Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Housetops, Rooftops

The "Valley of Vision" is Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel, "the daughter of my people"(v.4), covering of Judah (v.8), "the houses of Jerusalem" (v.10))
The housetops could have a lawn
The Gospel was to be proclaimed from the housetops, so most likely it was used as a way to announce events, etc.
Rooves had battlements

(BAT'TLEMENT, n. [This is said to have been bastillement, from bastille, a fortification.]
A wall raised on a building with openings or embrasures, or the embrasure itself.)
Rahab used the roof to hide two spies for Joshua
Samson brought down a roof of several thousand in his final act of revenge
King David fell from grace looking at Bathsheba from his roof
He then was on the roof getting intelligence on Absalom
The booths for the Feast of Tabernacles were on the rooves.
A man sick with palsy was lowered from and through a roof to Jesus to be healed

2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

This is word for word the exact same verse as 2 Kings 19:26.

Jeremiah 48:38
There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith the LORD.

Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

Luke 12:3
Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Joshua 2:6
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.

Judges 16:27
Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were upon the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.

2 Samuel 11:2
And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king's house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon.

2 Samuel 18:24
And David sat between the two gates: and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate unto the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold a man running alone.

Nehemiah 8:16
So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.

Mark 2:4
And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay.

Isaiah 22:2
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.

They are acting restless, like they do when a battle is on, hyperactive
It is for a different reason
Thus far it is only a surrounding siege, not a deadly war, no one is dead-yet
This was to starve people to death or have them surrender
Romans, best at this, up to twenty five years was the preparation if you enlisted, you agreed to it!
Many become cannibals (Jospeheus)
This is the origin of Hezekiah's Tunnel

Isaiah 22:3
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

They (the Northern Kingdom of Israel) are taken captive instead

2 Kings 18:11
And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes:

Isaiah 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah is mourning this, not wanting his own people ("my people") to look at him
There is no comfort to give, so he wants none. This is nothing light

Isaiah 22:5
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

This judgment is from God and brings: trouble, destruction, confusion, sadness, mourning

Isaiah 22:6
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

Now, the invasion
Elam is what is now modern day Iran,

Jeremiah 49:35-38
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might. And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come. For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them: And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.

But....

Jeremiah 49:39
But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 22:7
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.

Isaiah 22:8
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

This is Hezekiah's tunnel
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2010/07/top-ten-biblical-discoveries-in-archaeology-%E2%80%93-7-hezekiahs-tunnel/
This is looking to works, and not to God
Again, more proof this is Jerusalem

Isaiah 22:9
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

This is top Hezekiah (he fixed walls, he used the Gihon Spring
The tunnel was because the water was outside of the wall
You can go through tunnel this today on a tourist trip
This later forms, among other things, the pool of Siloam

Isaiah 22:10
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

Nothing spared to make this wall
Imagine going house to house and asking for or demanding donations of materials to rebuild a wall from their house
Yet even more proof this is Jerusalem

Isaiah 22:11
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

This also proves that the "valley of vision" is Jerusalem in Israel
They built a wall to capture and keep water to survive, still there today
They looked to their works, not to God to save them

Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Every sign of mourning, in one verse.
Priests were forbidden to shave completely their heads, and this is shaving of the heads

Isaiah 22:13
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

Paul quoted this

1 Corinthians 15:32
If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

Isaiah 22:14
And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.

So Hezekiah will have to die before things get right in Israel at this time

Isaiah 22:15
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

Secretary of the treasurer
Shebna is treated more in Isaiah, but also 2 Kings
Shebna played both sides of the fence, helping relay the message of a threat from Sennacherib to Hezekiah, and said nothing to Sennacherib in defense of Israel, just like a politician would, playing both sides of the fence
Today he would say, "Sennacherib says he's gonna come up and kick your butts, so you better do hat he says! God will NOT protect you!"

SHEBNA THE SCRIBE

2 Kings 18:18
And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

2 Kings 18:26
Then said Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, and Shebna, and Joah, unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, to thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and talk not with us in the Jews' language in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

2 Kings 18:37
Then came Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

2 Kings 19:2
And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 22:15
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

Isaiah 36:3
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

Isaiah 36:11
Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews' language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.

Isaiah 36:22
Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.

Isaiah 37:2
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 22:16
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?

This corrupt politician was building his own expensive tomb as a remembrance
This "habitation" was to be his "final resting place" as we say today
He was never buried in it!
This was for his legacy to do something for his name

HABITA'TION, n. [L. habitatio, from habito, to dwell, from habeo, to hold, or as we say in English, to keep.

1. Act of inhabiting; state of dwelling.
2. Place of abode; a settled dwelling; a mansion; a house or other place in which man or any animal dwells.
The stars may be the habitations of numerous races of beings.
The Lord blesseth the habitation of the just. Prov 3.

Isaiah 22:17
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee

Shebna could or could not be the Scribe of the Scriptures
God will see that someone will bury him

2 Kings 18:18
And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

2 Kings 19:2
And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 22:15
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,

Isaiah 36:3
Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph's son, the recorder.

Isaiah 37:2
And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

Isaiah 22:18
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.

His sepulcher will be a waste of time and money, nothing to boast about at that point

Isaiah 22:19
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

Interesting use of words, STATION

STATION, n. [L.]

The act of standing.
Their manner was to stand at prayer--on which their meetings for that purpose received the name of stations.
A state of rest.
All progression is preformed by drawing on or impelling forward what was before in station or at quiet. [Rare.]
The spot or place where one stands, particularly where a person habitually stands, or is appointed to remain for a time; as the station of a sentinel. Each detachment of troops had its station.
Post assigned; office; the part or department of public duty which a person is appointed to perform. The chief magistrate occupies the first political station in a nation. Other officers fill subordinate stations. The office of bishop is an ecclesiastical station of great importance. It is the duty of the executive to fill all civil and military stations with men of worth.
Situation; position.
The fig and date, why love they to remain in middle station?
Employment; occupation; business.
By sending the sabbath in retirement and religious exercises, we gain new strength and resolution to perform Gods will in our several stations the week following.
Character; state.
The greater part have kept their station.
Rank; condition of life. He can be contented with a humble station.
In church history, the fast of the fourth and sixth days of the week, Wednesday and Friday, in memory of the council which condemned Christ, and of his passion.
In the church of Rome, a church where indulgences are to be had on certain days.

Isaiah 22:20-22
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

This is the same as the Church of Philadelphia
This has to be Christ (Revelation 3:7)

Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;

Isaiah 22:23
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.

The LORD Jesus Christ is someone we can hang everything and anything on
This is Eliakim and Jesus Christ, back and forth

Isaiah 22:24
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

Back to Eliakim

Isaiah 22:25
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Shebna, a type of anti-Christ
This nail is not in a sure place. Hang something on Shebna and it will fall
The nail in a real sure place is Jesus Christ