Isaiah 22:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Isaiah 22:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Kings 20:20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2 Chronicles 32:30
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Nehemiah 3:16
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
2 Chronicles 32:1-6
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself. …

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Armory Ezekias Faithfulness Gihon Hezekiah Israel, Prophecies Concerning Jebus Jerusalem

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. 9)

9. Ye have seen--rather, “Ye shall see.” city of David--the upper city, on Zion, the south side of Jerusalem (2Sa 5:7, 9; 1Ki 8:1); surrounded by a wall of its own; but even in it there shall be “breaches.” Hezekiah’s preparations for defense accord with this (2Ch 32:5). ye gathered--rather, “ye shall gather.” lower pool--(See on Is 22:11). Ye shall bring together into the city by subterranean pas…