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John Trapp on Isaiah 22:16

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Isaiah22:16

Ver. 16. What haſt thou here?] What inheritance, poſſeſſion?

And whom haſt thou here?] ſc. of thy ſtock and kindred?Terrae filius. Art not thou a forraigner, a new man, an upſtart muſhroom? why then doſt thou cut thee out ſuch a coſtly and ſtately Sepulchre in Jeruſalem, as if thou wert of the ſtock-Royal? or as if thou wert ſure to dye here in thy neſt? Will it not prove a true [non-Latin text not transcribed], as the Greeks call it? Some conceive that for the ſafeguard of his Tomb, and other trinkets, Shebna was one of thoſe Princes, 2 King. 19. that gave the King counſel to fortifie ſo ſtrongly. The Hebrews ſay, that he likewiſe ſecretly kept correſpondency with the enemy, that he might have a ſtake in ſtore, which way ſoever the dice chanced to turn: yea that he treacherouſly agreed with the enemy to deliver the City into his hands: and therefore it was but time to take him a link lower, as Hezekiah did upon this Prophecy of Iſaiah. Some add, that for betraying the City he hoped to be made King there till his death; and therefore hewed him out a Mauſolaeum or Royal Sepulchre there, and that among thoſe of the Houſe of David, ſay the Rabbins.

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