Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 22:16

16 What hast thou here ? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high , and graveth an habitation for himself in a rock ?

Or, What dost thou here? what right hast thou to this Place and Office?

Either, 1. What Friends, in whom thou canst confide? Thou hast so ill managed thy self and thy Affairs, that thou art universally hated. Or, 2. What Kindred or Relations? For the Jews say, he was a Stranger by Birth; which is the more probable, because his Pedigree is not mentioned in any of those Places of Scripture where he is named.

As great and ambitious Men used to do.

Not in thine own Country, the proper Place for such a Monument; but in Ierusalem, which should not be defiled nor disparaged with it.

In an high and eminent Place, as Isa. 57. 7.

A fit Place both for Strength and State. Thus we read of a sepulchre hewed out in a rock, Mat. 27. 60.

g Either, 1. a Sepulchre, which is called a mans house, Iob 30. 23. or, 2. a Dwelling-house. He erected, or is compared to one that doth erect, a stately House to live in, and a stately Sepulchre to receive him when he dies. And these two are fitly joined together, because their Sepulchres were commonly built in or near their Houses. See Isa. 14. 18. Ioh. 19. 41.

Marginal references: Or, O he.