22:8
This is almost certainly talking about the Assyrian attack. The “Palace of the Forest” was built by King Solomon (1 Kings 7:2) and was a storehouse, and they would look in there for weapons, but find none. By the time Assyria attacked Judah was in a very sorry state.
22:9-11
This tells of many action taken by the defenders of the city. They worked hard, they did everything humanly possible, everything but one thing, the one thing that could have saved them. They did not look to the Lord. They did not look to the one who made the city, the one of whose plans it was a part. In the church we can so often follow the same sad line. The church is God’s church, created by Him for His purposes, and yet so often we will not look to Him. Remember the situation Isaiah is looking at. The nation is under very real military threat from Assyria, the danger is a real and present danger. It is so easy in those sorts of situations to be overwhelmed by the circumstances, to think that we have to focus on the practical steps to the exclusion of all else, to the exclusion of God. We must not do that, we must turn to the Lord.
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