Isaiah 22:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:2 : 2 And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.
  • 1 Kgs 10:17 : 17 And he made three hundred smaller body-covers of hammered gold, with three pounds of gold in every cover: and the king put them in the house of the Woods of Lebanon.
  • 1 Kgs 14:27-28 : 27 So in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass, and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house. 28 And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.
  • Song 4:4 : 4 Your neck is like the tower of David made for a store-house of arms, in which a thousand breastplates are hanging, breastplates for fighting-men.
  • Isa 36:1-3 : 1 And it came about in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah that Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came up against all the walled towns of Judah and took them. 2 And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's 3 And there came out to him Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder.

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    9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

    10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

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    17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

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