Isaiah 22:24
Good News Translation
"But all his relatives and dependents will become a burden to him. They will hang on him like pots and bowls hanging from a peg!

New Revised Standard Version
And they will hang on him the whole weight of his ancestral house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

Contemporary English Version
His children and relatives will be supported by him, like pans hanging from a peg on the wall.

New American Bible
On him shall hang all the glory of his ancestral house: descendants and offspring, all the little dishes, from bowls to jugs.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.

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Genesis 41:44,45 And the king said to Joseph: I am Pharao: without thy commandment no man shall move hand or foot in all the land of Egypt. . . .

Genesis 47:11-25 But Joseph gave a possession to his father and his brethren in Egypt, in the best place of the land, in Ramesses, as Pharao had commanded. . . .

Daniel 6:1-3 It seemed good to Darius, and he appointed over the kingdom a hundred and twenty governors, to be over his whole kingdom. . . .

Matthew 28:18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth.

John 5:22-27 For neither does the Father judge any man: but hath given all judgment to the Son. . . .

John 20:21-23 He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. . . .

vessels of small

Ezekiel 15:3 Shall wood be taken of it, to do any work, or shall a pin be made of it for any vessel to hang thereon?

Romans 9:22,23 What if God, willing to shew his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath, fitted for destruction, . . .

2 Timothy 2:20,21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour. . . .

vessels of flagons.

Context
A Message for Shebna
23And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father. 24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.25In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.…
Cross References
Isaiah 22:23
And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.

Isaiah 22:25
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.

Zechariah 6:13
Yea, he shall build a temple to the Lord: and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit, and rule upon his throne: and he shall be a priest upon his throne, and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

Isaiah 22:23
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