Isaiah Chapter 22 verse 10 Holy Bible
and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;
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And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
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and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have broken down the houses to fortify the wall;
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And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
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and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall;
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And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 10. - Ye have numbered... have broken down; rather, ye numbered... ye broke down. The "numbering" was probably in order to see how many could be spared for pulling down. The repair of the walls with materials thus furnished was a sign of extreme haste and urgency. It would seem from vers. 7, 8 that the repairs were not begun until the town was invested.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(10) Ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem.--The preparations for defence are continued. The houses were numbered that some might be pulled down and others left, as strategical plans might determine. (Comp. 2Chronicles 32:5.) So in what was probably a contemporary psalm we have, "Walk about Zion . . . tell the towers thereof . . . mark ye well her bulwarks" (Psalm 48:12). So in the later siege of Jerusalem houses were thrown down by (or, more accurately, on account of) the mounds that were employed by the besiegers (Jeremiah 33:4).
