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Isaiah 22:13 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 13. 13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
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Quick Meaning
The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine” at Isaiah 22:13 as part of “Jerusalem Feasts Instead of Grieving in the Valley of Vision.”
Read It With
- Isaiah 22:1–14
Read Isaiah 22:13 with 22:1–14. By itself, “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine” can be detached from the speaker, addressee, historical horizon, poetic movement, or outcome that gives it force. The complete unit establishes: Rooftop celebration, slain leaders, breached walls, weapon stores, water projects, and the failure to regard the city's maker lead to an unforgiven charge.
Why This Verse Appears Here
This received unit develops “Jerusalem Feasts Instead of Grieving in the Valley of Vision” through its own speaker, addressee, scene, poem, oracle, sign, or historical episode. Its non-interchangeable movement is: Rooftop celebration, slain leaders, breached walls, weapon stores, water projects, and the failure to regard the city's maker lead to an unforgiven charge. This verse's placement is specific: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine” at Isaiah 22:13 as part of “Jerusalem Feasts Instead of Grieving in the Valley of Vision.”
Follow the Context
- The unit opens at 22:1 with the address, scene, poem, sign, question, or action named in its title.
- Rooftop celebration, slain leaders, breached walls, weapon stores, water projects, and the failure to regard the city's maker lead to an unforgiven charge.
- By 22:14 the movement reaches its warning, promise, answer, response, or transition before the next unit begins.
What This Verse Is Not Saying
“Let us eat and drink” reports fatalistic celebration under siege and does not condemn ordinary feasting or grief practices.
What Remains True
Hope for a community must hold justice, belonging, safety, worship, grief, and repair together. In Isaiah 22:13, that bounded truth is carried through this verse's role: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine” at Isaiah 22:13 as part of “Jerusalem Feasts Instead of Grieving in the Valley of Vision.”
How It Can Shape Life
- Serve real communities with accountable justice and welcome while refusing territorial absolutism, misogyny, or claims that one modern city exhausts the poetry. This response follows Isaiah 22:1–14's specific concern, “Jerusalem Feasts Instead of Grieving in the Valley of Vision.” This verse directs that response through its exact role: The prophetic poem or speech in Isaiah carries the next action, claim, image, or measurement through “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine” at Isaiah 22:13 as part of “Jerusalem Feasts Instead of Grieving in the Valley of Vision.”
Teach It Back
Explain Isaiah 22:13's precise role in Isaiah 22:1–14. Include “And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine,” state the unit's historical or literary limit, give one proportionate truth and action, and explicitly reject one harmful use.
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Isaiah 22:1–14, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Isaiah
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology at the exact unit, without treating morphology as apparatus, lexicon, composition history, or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Isa.xml, OSIS 22:1–14 with Hebrew/KJV versification difference checked
Open the fixed Hebrew Isaiah file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Isaiah
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2016; current official PDF
Supports: Verse-level controls for Hebrew, syntax, poetry, older KJV language, chronology, names, textual issues, and material translation alternatives.
Exact location: Official NET Isaiah PDF, translator, study, and textual notes attached to Isaiah 22:1–14 in the complete 205-page book PDF
Open the official NET Isaiah PDF ↗open university study guide series
First Isaiah study-guide course
John J. Collins and Joel S. Baden
Yale Bible Study, 2020; current public course
Supports: Eighth-century Assyrian setting, Isaiah traditions, later growth, justice, Zion, signs, royal language, nations, and policy, with proposals kept visible.
Exact location: Yale Bible Study, First Isaiah course, Historical Context and nation-oracle framing; applied to Isaiah 22:1–14
Open the Yale First Isaiah course ↗modern scholarly book course
Isaiah course: summary, outline, background, introductory issues, themes, and reception
Fred Gaiser; revised by Michael Chan
Enter the Bible, Luther Seminary, revised August 2024
Supports: Whole-book historical, literary, theological, ethical, and reception synthesis across Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, and postexilic horizons.
Exact location: Enter the Bible Isaiah course, Outline Book 1B, Background, and Theological Themes on the nations; applied to Isaiah 22:1–14
Open the Enter the Bible Isaiah course ↗