2 Kings 19:8 KJV — MannaFest

2 Kings 19:8

So Rab–shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

KJV

Parallel translations

4 additional translations

▾

ASV

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

WEB

When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.

YLT

And the chief of the butlers turneth back and findeth the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he hath heard that he hath journeyed from Lachish.

DBT

And Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

About this book

Old Testament

▾

2 Kings — Two kingdoms on parallel but diverging arcs. Elisha's ministry; Samaria falls to Assyria in 722 BC; Jerusalem falls to Babylon in 586 BC. Prophets interpose; kings refuse; the exile comes — and closes on a whisper of covenant hope.

Author: Compiler anonymous; Jewish tradition attributes to Jeremiah (same as 1 Kings)
Date: Events c. 852–560 BC; closing coda places composition in the mid-exile, c. 560 BC

Book overview →Read full book →Read chapter 19 →

⋯

Commentary voices

loading…

Cross-references

12 verses on the floor

2 Kings 18:14
And Hezekiah king of Judah sent to the king of Assyria to Lachish, saying, I have offended; return from me: that which thou puttest on me will I bear. And the king of Assyria appointed unto Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.
Joshua 10:29
Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
2 Kings 8:22
Yet Edom revolted from under the hand of Judah unto this day. Then Libnah revolted at the same time.
Joshua 15:39
Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
Micah 1:13
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

Show all 12 cross-references ▾

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Cross-references

loading…

Voices3

On this verse

Draft selections — awaiting the founder’s edit.

However, he was now alarmed with the rumour that the king of the Cushites, who bordered upon the Arabians, was coming out against him with a great army,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Hezekiah thereupon, by a very solemn prayer, recommended his case to God, the righteous Judge, and begged help from him,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

So Rab-shakeh . . . found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah--Whether Lachish had fallen or not, is not said. But Sennacherib had transferred his battering-rams against the apparently neighboring fortress of Libnah (Jos 10:29; compare Jos 10:31;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

On this verse

loading…

Words6

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H384118× in canon H392324× in canon H726232× in canon H5265146× in canon H804151× in canon H3898177× in canon

The quotation web

loading…

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

2KI 19:8JOS 15:39 JOS 10:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2KI 19:8JOS 10:29 JOS 21:13
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
2KI 19:8MIC 1:13 2KI 18:17
2KI 19:82KI 18:14 2KI 18:7
2KI 19:8JOS 15:39 2KI 22:1
2KI 19:8JOS 10:29 JOS 15:42
2KI 19:82KI 8:22 GEN 27:40
2KI 19:8MIC 1:13 2CH 32:9

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

Where the connections lead

loading…

Continue: 2 Kings 19 →