2 Kings 19:22-24

22 'Whom have you ¹reproached and ²blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, And haughtily lifted up your eyes? Against the ³Holy One of Israel!

23 '⁴Through 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 ⁵thickest forest.

24 "I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I ⁶dried up All the rivers of Egypt."

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2 Kings 19:22-24 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 6

1. 2 Kings 19:4
2. 2 Kings 19:6
3. Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 30:11-15
4. 2 Kings 18:17
5. 2 Chronicles 26:10; Isaiah 10:18
6. Isaiah 19:6

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"