Isaiah 22:8

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

They removed the defenses of Judah. At that time you looked for the weapons in the House of the Forest.

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  • 1 Kgs 7:2 : 2 He named it“The Palace of the Lebanon Forest”; it was 150 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. It had four rows of cedar pillars and cedar beams above the pillars.
  • 1 Kgs 10:17 : 17 He also made three hundred small shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold were used for each of these shields. The king placed them in the Palace of the Lebanon Forest.
  • 1 Kgs 14:27-28 : 27 King Rehoboam made bronze shields to replace them and assigned them to the officers of the royal guard who protected the entrance to the royal palace. 28 Whenever the king visited the LORD’s temple, the royal guard carried them and then brought them back to the guardroom.
  • Song 4:4 : 4 Your neck is like the tower of David built with courses of stones; one thousand shields are hung on it– all shields of valiant warriors.
  • Isa 36:1-3 : 1 Sennacherib Invades Judah In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah’s reign, King Sennacherib of Assyria marched up against all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. 2 The king of Assyria sent his chief adviser from Lachish to King Hezekiah in Jerusalem, along with a large army. The chief adviser stood at the conduit of the upper pool which is located on the road to the field where they wash and dry cloth. 3 Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace supervisor, accompanied by Shebna the scribe and Joah son of Asaph, the secretary, went out to meet him.

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    9You saw the many breaks in the walls of the City of David; you stored up water in the lower pool.

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