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2 Kings 19:18-28

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18 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, 1but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they were destroyed.
19 So now, O Lord our God, save us, please, from his hand, 2that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that 3you, O Lord, are God alone. ”

Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennacherib king of Assyria 4I have heard.
21 This is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him: “She despises you, she scorns you— 5the virgin daughter of Zion; she 6wags her head behind you—the daughter of Jerusalem.
22 “Whom have you 7mocked and 8reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against 9the Holy One of Israel!
23 10By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 11‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of 12Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most 13fruitful forest.
24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams 14of Egypt. ’
25 “Have you not heard that 15I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what 16now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,
26 while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become 17like 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 18and 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 19put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and 20I will turn you back on the way by which you came.
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2 Kings 19:18-28 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 19

This chapter relates that King Hezekiah, on a report made to him of Rabshakeh's speech, sent a message to the prophet Isaiah to pray for him, who returned him a comfortable and encouraging answer, 2Ki 19:1-7 and that upon Rabshakeh's return to the king of Assyria, he sent to Hezekiah a terrifying letter, 2Ki 19:8-13, which Hezekiah spread before the Lord, and prayed unto him to save him and his people out of the hands of the king of Assyria, 2Ki 19:14-19, to which he had a gracious answer sent him by the prophet Isaiah, promising him deliverance from the Assyrian army, 2Ki 19:20-34, which accordingly was destroyed by an angel in one night, and Sennacherib fleeing to Nineveh, was slain by his two sons, 2Ki 19:35-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Cross References 20

  • 1. 19:18 2 Chr. 32:19; Ps. 115:4
  • 2. 19:19 Josh. 4:24; Ps. 83:18
  • 3. 19:19 [See ver. 15 above]
  • 4. 19:20 [ch. 20:5]
  • 5. 19:21 Lam. 2:13
  • 6. 19:21 Job 16:4; Ps. 22:7; 109:25; Lam. 2:15
  • 7. 19:22 ver. 4
  • 8. 19:22 ver. 6
  • 9. 19:22 Ps. 71:22; Isa. 5:24; 60:9; Jer. 51:5
  • 10. 19:23 ch. 18:17
  • 11. 19:23 Ps. 20:7
  • 12. 19:23 See Judg. 9:15
  • 13. 19:23 2 Chr. 26:10; [Isa. 10:18]
  • 14. 19:24 Isa. 19:6
  • 15. 19:25 [Isa. 45:7]
  • 16. 19:25 [Isa. 10:5]
  • 17. 19:26 Ps. 129:6
  • 18. 19:27 [1 Sam. 29:6]
  • 19. 19:28 Ezek. 29:4; 38:4; [Job 41:2; Isa. 30:28; Amos 4:2]
  • 20. 19:28 ver. 33, 36
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version® (ESV®) © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. All rights reserved. ESV Text Edition: 2025

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