Isa 22:2 | TNotes | STEP | 22:2 The reveling city was full of feasting and drinking (22:13 ; see 23:7 ; 32:13 ), probably in response to the Assyrian retreat. Now a new threat approaches—the Babylonian siege (586 BC ). • The people died not in battle but by famine and disease . Siege warfare left the inhabitants of the city cut off from needed agricultural resources and in a terrible sanitation and health crisis.

‏ Isaiah 22:2

22:2 ^a The reveling city was full of feasting and drinking (22:13 ^b; see 23:7 ^c; 32:13 ^d), probably in response to the Assyrian retreat. Now a new threat approaches—the Babylonian siege (586 BC).

• The people died not in battle but by famine and disease. Siege warfare left the inhabitants of the city cut off from needed agricultural resources and in a terrible sanitation and health crisis.