2 Kings 19:24

24 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

2 Kings 19:24 in Other Translations

24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'

24 I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their water. With the sole of my foot I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!’

24 I've dug wells in faraway places and drunk their exotic waters; I've waded and splashed barefoot in the rivers of Egypt."

24 I dug [wells], and I drank foreign waters. I dried up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.

2 Kings 19:24 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:24

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:24 In-Context

22 Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By your messengers you have ridiculed the Lord. And you have said, “With my many chariots I have ascended the heights of the mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its junipers. I have reached its remotest parts, the finest of its forests.

24 I have dug wells in foreign lands and drunk the water there. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

25 “ ‘Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.

26 Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.