Isaiah 22:23

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

He will be like a favorite chair in his father’s house. I will make him like a strong peg in a solid board.

Cross References

Job 36:7

He watches over those who live right. He lets them rule in high places.

Ezra 9:8

“But now, finally, you have been kind to us. You have let a few of us escape captivity and come to live in this holy place. Lord, you gave us new life and relief from our slavery.

Zechariah 10:4

“The cornerstone, the tent peg, the war bow, and the advancing soldiers will all come from Judah together.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust, and he takes away their sadness. He makes them important and seats them with princes and at the places for honored guests. The Lord made the whole world, and the whole world belongs to him.

Revelation 3:21

“I will let everyone who wins the victory sit with me on my throne. It was the same with me. I won the victory and sat down with my Father on his throne.

Ecclesiastes 12:11

Words from the wise are like sharp goads. When these sayings are written down and saved, they can be used to guide people, just as a shepherd uses a sharp stick to make his sheep go the right way.

Esther 10:3

Mordecai the Jew was second in importance to King Xerxes. He was the most important man among the Jews. His fellow Jews respected him very much, because he worked hard for the good of his people and brought peace to all the Jews.

Esther 4:14

If you keep quiet now, help and freedom for the Jews will come from another place. But you and your father’s family will all die. And who knows, maybe you have been chosen to be the queen for such a time as this.”

Isaiah 22:24

All the honored and important things of his father’s house will hang on him. All the adults and little children will depend on him. They will be like little dishes and big water bottles hanging on him.”

Isaiah 22:25

The Lord All-Powerful said, “At that time the peg that is now in the solid board will get weak and break. It will fall to the ground, and everything hanging on it will be destroyed. Then everything I said in this message will happen. It will happen because the Lord said it would.”