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Elam takes up the quiver,
    Aram mounts the horses
    and Kir[a] uncovers the shields.
Your choice valleys are filled with chariots,
    horses are posted at the gates—
    and shelter over Judah is removed.[b]

On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest;

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Footnotes

  1. 22:6 Elam…Kir: the Assyrian forces presumably included auxiliary troops from various places.
  2. 22:8 Shelter over Judah is removed: the reference is obscure; it has been suggested that Judah’s protection was Jerusalem itself, and with the fall of the city the country was exposed. House of the Forest: an armory built by Solomon; its columns of wood suggested the trees of a forest; cf. 1 Kgs 7:2; 10:17.

Elam(A) takes up the quiver,(B)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir(C) uncovers the shield.
Your choicest valleys(D) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(E)

The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day(F)
    to the weapons(G) in the Palace of the Forest.(H)

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