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2 Kings 19:17-27

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17 "Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands
18 and have cast their gods into the fire, 1for they were not gods but the work of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
19 "Now, O LORD our God, I pray, deliver us from his hand 2that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O 3LORD, are God."

God's Answer through Isaiah

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 4I have heard you.'
21 "This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 'She has despised you and mocked you, 5The virgin daughter of Zion; She 6has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!
22 'Whom have you 7reproached and 8blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the 9Holy One of Israel!
23 '10Through your messengers you have reproached the Lord, And you have said, "With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon; And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses. And I entered its farthest lodging place, its 11thickest forest.
24 "I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I 12dried up All the rivers of Egypt."
25 '13Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. 14Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn * fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 'Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were 15as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
27 'But 16I know your sitting down, And your going out and your coming in, And your raging against Me.
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2 Kings 19:17-27 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

Cross References 16

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. Lit "on high"
  • [b]. So with some ancient versions; M.T. "will cut...will enter"
  • [c]. So with some ancient versions; M.T. "will cut...will enter"
  • [d]. So with some ancient versions; M.T. "will dry up"
  • [e]. Lit "the besieged place"
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