2 Kings 19:28

28 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will 1put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and 2I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

2 Kings 19:28 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:28

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:28 In-Context

26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops, blighted before it is grown.
27 "But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.
28 Because you have raged against me and your complacency has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
29 "And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
30 And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

Cross References 2

  • 1. Ezekiel 29:4; Ezekiel 38:4; [Job 41:2; Isaiah 30:28; Amos 4:2]
  • 2. ver. 33, 36
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