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2 Kings 19:24-34

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24 "I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I 1dried up All the rivers of Egypt."
25 '2Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. 3Now 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 4as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb, As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
27 'But 5I know your sitting down, And your going out and your coming in, And your raging against Me.
28 'Because of your raging against Me, And because your arrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I 6will put My hook in your nose, And My bridle in your lips, And 7I will turn you back by the way which you came.
29 'Then this shall be 8the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
30 '9The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
31 'For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and 10out of Mount Zion survivors. 11The zeal of the LORD will perform this.
32 'Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, "12He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.
33 "13By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,"' declares the LORD.
34 '14For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and 15for My servant David's sake.' "
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2 Kings 19:24-34 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 15

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. So with some ancient versions; M.T. "will dry up"
  • [b]. Lit "the besieged place"
  • [c]. Lit "complacency"
  • [d]. Lit "eating"
  • [e]. Lit "those who escape"
  • [f]. Some ancient mss read "the LORD of hosts"
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