2 Kings 19:17
in 2 Kings 19Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
KJV
Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
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This verse in 2 Kings 19
Commentary
5 notes on this verseBut those are deceived who think they can therefore be too hard for him. He is none of the gods whom men's hands have made, but he has himself made all things, Ps. cxv.
This site's exposition
enthroned between the cherubim
on 2 Kings 19:15-19
The prayer moves to a universal claim, "You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth", the claim the letter denied. He turns the letter's record back: the gods were cast "into the fire" as "only wood and stone". The nations' gods failed because "they were not gods".
This site's exposition
Truly, O LORD
Hezekiah grants the letter's facts before he answers its argument. The kings of Assyria had laid waste the lands listed in verses 12 and 13, and Samaria had fallen at 18:10. Henry held that those conquests prove nothing against the God who made all things, and he cites Psalm 115.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church1 voice
Prayer sometimes brings the dead back to life, but sometimes it may slay the living, as happened with the godly Peter: he brought Tabitha back to life by prayer, but he effected the death of Ananias and Sapphira. Elisha, that spiritual man, brought to life …
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Hezekiah received the letter . . . and went up into the house of the Lord--Hezekiah, after reading it, hastened into the temple, spread it in the childlike confidence of faith before the Lord, as containing taunts deeply affecting the divine honor, and implored deliverance from this proud defier of God and man.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
Indeed. It is true that the kings of Ashur destroyed the peoples and put their deities in fire.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 6 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אָמְנָ֖ם | ʾamenam | truly | H551 → | |
| יְהוָ֑ה | yahweh | O Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ | hecherivu | they have made desolate | H2717 → | 40 times |
| מַלְכֵ֥י | malkhei | [the] kings of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אַשּׁ֛וּר | ʾashur | Assyria | H804 → | 151 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הַגּוֹיִ֖ם | hagoyim | the nations | H1471 → | 561 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אַרְצָֽם׃ | ʾartzam | land their | H776 → | 2504 times |
אָמְנָ֖םtruly
ʾamenamH551 →
יְהוָ֑הO Yahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּthey have made desolate
hecherivuH2717 →40 times
מַלְכֵ֥י[the] kings of
malkheiH4428 →2525 times
אַשּׁ֛וּרAssyria
ʾashurH804 →151 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הַגּוֹיִ֖םthe nations
hagoyimH1471 →561 times
וְאֶת־and <obj.>
veetH853 →10935 times
אַרְצָֽם׃land their
ʾartzamH776 →2504 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Daniel 2:47The king said to Daniel, “Your God is truly the God of gods and Lord of kings, the Revealer of Mysteries, since you were able to reveal this mystery.”
it leads to
- Daniel 2:22
He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.
- Daniel 2:28
But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your…
- Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
- Daniel 2:22
Through
1 Chronicles 5:26So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh into exile. And…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 15:19
Then Pul king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver in order to gain his support and strengthen his own grip on the kingdom.
- 2 Kings 15:29
In the days of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and captured Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and he took the people…
- 2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the…
- 2 Kings 18:11
The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
- 2 Kings 15:19
Through
Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
it leads to
- Job 4:17
‘Can a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?
- Job 4:17
Where this verse is studied
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Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Kings; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Sahdona the Syrian, BOOK OF PERFECTION 41.