2 Kings 19:22

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!

2 Kings 19:22 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:22

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:22 In-Context

20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says the LORD , the God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard you.'

21 "This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: 'She has despised you and mocked you, The virgin daughter of Zion; She has shaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

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

23 'Through 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 thickest forest.

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

Cross References

• 1. 2 Kings 19:4
• 2. 2 Kings 19:6
• 3. Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 30:11-15

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "on high"