Isaiah Chapter 22 verse 6 Holy Bible
And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men `and' horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
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And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
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-- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.
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And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
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Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
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And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men -- horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - Elam bare the quiver. Elam, the country extending from the Zagros range to the Lower Tigris, and watered by the Choaspes, Eulaeus, Pasitigris, and other rivers, was an independent kingdom from a very early date (Genesis 14:1, 9), and in Isaiah's time was generally hostile to Assyria. Sargon, however, relates that he conquered a portion of the country, planted colonies in it from the more western parts of his empire, and placed both colonists and natives under the governor of Babylon ('Records of the Past,' vol. 9. p. 16). It is thus quite possible that both Sargon and Sennacherib may have had a contingent of Elamites in their armies. With chariots of men and horsemen; rather, with troops of men (who were) horsemen (comp. Isaiah 21:7). Kir uncovered the shield. "Kir" is mentioned in 2 Kings as the place to which Tiglath-Pileser transported the inhabitants of Damascus (2 Kings 16:9), and by Amos (Amos 9:7) as the original country from which the Syrians were derived. It has been recently identified with Kirkhi, near Diarbekr, or with Kirruri, in the Urumiyah country (Cheyne); but neither identification is marc than possible. (On uncovering shields as a preliminary to engaging in battle, see Caesar, 'Do Bell. Gall.,' 2:21.)
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) Elam . . . Kir . . .--The two nations are named as the chief elements of the Assyrian army then invading Judaea. Elam, previously named as the destroyer of Babylon (Isaiah 21:2), was at this time, as the inscriptions of Sargon show, subject to Assyria (Records of the Past, vii. 29). As in later history (Herod. i. 73, iii. 21; Jeremiah 49:35), it was conspicuous chiefly for its archers. "Kir," named in 2Kings 16:11 as the region to which Tiglath-pileser carried off the people of Damascus, has been identified with the region near the river Kyros, the modern Georgia. There are, however, both linguistic and historical grounds against this identification, and we must be content to look on it as an otherwise unknown region of Mesopotamia. To "uncover the shield" was to draw it out of its leather case (comp. "Scutis tegumenta detrahere"; Caes. Bell. Gall. 2:21), and so to be prepared for battle.