2 Kings 19:21-28

21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: “ ‘Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and mocks you. Daughter Jerusalem tosses her head as you flee.

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.

27 “ ‘But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.

28 Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.’

2 Kings 19:21-28 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.

Cross References

• 1. Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 33:1
• 2. Isaiah 47:1; Jeremiah 14:17; Jeremiah 18:13; Jeremiah 31:4; Jeremiah 46:11; Lamentations 2:13; Amos 5:2
• 3. Psalms 53:5
• 4. Proverbs 1:26; Proverbs 3:34; Psalms 22:7-8
• 5. Job 16:4; Psalms 44:14; Psalms 64:8; Psalms 109:25; Jeremiah 18:16
• 6. S 2 Kings 18:25
• 7. Leviticus 19:2; 1 Samuel 2:2; Job 6:10; Psalms 16:10; Psalms 22:3; Psalms 71:22; Psalms 78:41; Psalms 89:18; Isaiah 1:4; Isaiah 6:3; Isaiah 57:15; Hosea 11:9; Isaiah 5:24
• 8. Isaiah 10:18; Jeremiah 21:14; Ezekiel 20:47
• 9. Psalms 20:7; Jeremiah 50:37
• 10. Isaiah 10:34; Isaiah 14:8; Isaiah 33:9; Ezekiel 31:3
• 11. Isaiah 40:21,28
• 12. Isaiah 22:11; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 45:7
• 13. Micah 1:6
• 14. Isaiah 13:7; Ezekiel 7:17; Zephaniah 3:16
• 15. Psalms 6:10; Psalms 71:24; Psalms 83:17; Isaiah 41:23; Jeremiah 8:9
• 16. Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 53:2; Jeremiah 23:5
• 17. Job 8:12; Psalms 37:2; Psalms 129:6
• 18. Psalms 139:1-4
• 19. 2 Chronicles 33:11; Ezekiel 19:9; Ezekiel 29:4; Ezekiel 38:4; Amos 4:2
• 20. Isaiah 30:28
• 21. ver 33