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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Isaiah 22:2

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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Modern study notes
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22:2 The reveling city was full of feasting and drinking (22:13; see 23:7; 32:13), probably in response to the Assyrian retreat. Now a new threat approaches—the Babylonian siege (586 BC). • The people died not in battle but by famine and disease. Siege warfare left the inhabitants of the city cut off from needed agricultural resources and in a terrible sanitation and health crisis.
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