Holy Scripture

Isaiah 22:21

A church father on this verse
“For all these things will work for your destruction [i.e., Shebna's], since you have been deposed and rejected from the high priesthood, of which you showed yourself unworthy, God being a just judge who gives to each according to his worth. On you, then, he will bring these things; but on the other, Eliakim, whom he h…”
Eusebius of Caesarea, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON ISAIAH 148:6-20

Source: Septuagint

Original

21and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Judah.

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In context

19And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place.

20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

— Isaiah 22:21 —

22And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.

23And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne of his father’s house.

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