Isaiah 22:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 22:8 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 10:17
And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
1 Kings 7:2
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
1 Kings 14:27-28
And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king's house. …
Isaiah 36:1-3
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. …
Song of Solomon 4:4
Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

Topics

Armory Israel, Prophecies Concerning

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-14)

What is meant by the covering of Judah, which in the beginning of this paragraph is said to be discovered, is not agreed. The fenced cities of Judah were a covering to the country; but these, being taken by the army of the Assyrians, ceased to be a shelter, so that the whole country lay exposed to be plundered. The weakness of Judah, its nakedness, and inability to keep itself, now appeared more t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

8. he discovered the covering--rather, “the veil of Judah shall be taken off” [Horsley]: figuratively for, exposing to shame as a captive (Is 47:3; Na 3:5). Sennacherib dismantled all “the defensed cities of Judah” (Is 36:1). thou didst look--rather, “thou shalt look.” house of ... forest--The house of armory built of cedar from the forest of Lebanon by Solomon, on a slope of Zion called Ophel (1K…