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2 Kings 19:22-24

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22 "Whom have you 1mocked and 2reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against 3the Holy One of Israel!
23 4By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 5'With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of 6Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most 7fruitful forest.
24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams 8of 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 8

  • 1. ver. 4
  • 2. ver. 6
  • 3. Psalms 71:22; Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 60:9; Jeremiah 51:5
  • 4. 2 Kings 18:17
  • 5. Psalms 20:7
  • 6. See Judges 9:15
  • 7. 2 Chronicles 26:10; [Isaiah 10:18]
  • 8. Isaiah 19:6
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