2 Kings 19:23

23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. ^[a] I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

2 Kings 19:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:23

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:23 In-Context

21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

22 Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

24 I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. 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 should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

Footnotes

• [a]. Or pines or junipers or firs