2 Kings 19:23

23 ¹By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ²‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of ³Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most ⁴fruitful forest.

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 concerning him: “She despises you, she scorns you— the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you—the daughter of Jerusalem.

22 “Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest lodging place, its most fruitful forest.

24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt. ’

25 “Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

Cross References

• 1. 19:23 ch. 18:17
• 2. 19:23 Ps. 20:7
• 3. 19:23 See Judg. 9:15
• 4. 19:23 2 Chr. 26:10; [Isa. 10:18]