Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
art—rather, "wert"; for it could not now be said to be "a joyous city" (Isaiah 32:13). The cause of their joy (Isaiah 22:13) may have been because Sennacherib had accepted Hezekiah's offer to renew the payment of tribute, and they were glad to have peace on any terms, however humiliating (II Kings 18:14-16), or on account of the alliance with Egypt. If the reference be to Zedekiah's time, the joy and feasting are not inapplicable, for this recklessness was a general characteristic of the unbelieving Jews (Isaiah 56:12).
not slain with the sword—but with the famine and pestilence about to be caused by the coming siege (Lamentations 4:9). MAURER refers this to the plague by which he thinks Sennacherib's army was destroyed, and Hezekiah was made sick (Isaiah 37:36; Isaiah 38:1). But there is no authority for supposing that the Jews in the city suffered such extremities of plague at this time, when God destroyed their foes. BARNES refers it to those slain in flight, not in open honorable "battle"; Isaiah 22:3 favors this.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 22:2:
Isaiah 22:1
Isaiah 32:13
Isaiah 43:14
Jeremiah 51:55
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