Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem - That is, you have taken an estimate of their number so as to ascertain how many can be spared to be pulled down to repair the walls; or you have made an estimate of the amount of materials for repairing the walls, which would be furnished by pulling down the houses in Jerusalem.
To fortify the wall - The houses in Jerusalem were built of stone, and therefore they would furnish appropriate materials for repairing the walls of the city. In II Chronicles 32:5, it is said that Hezekiah not only repaired the broken walls of the city on the approach of Sennacherib, but ' raised up the towers, and another wall without, and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in abundance.'
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Isaiah 22:10:
2 Chronicles 32:5
2 Chronicles 32:7
Isaiah 22:1
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