2 Kings 19:24

24 I dug [wells] and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.'

2 Kings 19:24 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:24

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:24 In-Context

22 Whom have you mocked and reviled? And against whom have you have raised [your] voice and have haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By the hand of your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up [to] the height of the mountains. [To] the remote areas of Lebanon, I have felled the tallest of its cedars, the choicest of its cypresses. I have entered the place of overnight lodging. Even [to] the edge of forest of its fertile land.

24 I dug [wells] and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.'

25 Have you not heard? From long ago I have determined it, from the days of old I have planned it, and now I am bringing it to pass. It shall be turned into a pile of rocks; fortified cities are ruined.

26 Their inhabitants, short of hand, shall be dismayed; and they shall be ashamed. They have become green plants of the open field, and tender grass, green grass of the roof and blight before the standing grain.