2 Kings 19:13
in 2 Kings 19Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?
KJV
Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
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This verse in 2 Kings 19
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Compare the marginal reference 2Ki 17:24. 2Ki 19:12 refers to former Assyrian successes, 2Ki 19:13 to comparatively recent ones.
This site's exposition
Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee
on 2 Kings 19:10-13
The second message repeats Rabshakeh's argument in the king's own name, naming city after conquered city, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, so that Judah's God is filed among the local deities none of them saved. The list is the whole of Sennacherib's theology: every nation's god has failed against Assyria, so this one will fail too. The letter never allows that Israel's God might not be one more national god among the gods of Gozan and Haran, and that is precisely the ground Hezekiah's prayer stands on at verse 15.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
), the king of Hamath and the king of Arpad. Whether he means the prince or the idol, he means to make himself appear greater than either, and therefore very formidable, and the terror of the mighty in the land of the living.
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Hezekiah thereupon, by a very solemn prayer, recommended his case to God, the righteous Judge, and begged help from him,
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
He was a powerful monarch, another Sesostris, and both he and Sabaco have left many monuments of their greatness. The name and figure of Tirhakah receiving war captives, are still seen in the Egyptian temple of Medinet Abou. This was the expected succor which was sneered at by Rab-shakeh as "a bruised reed" (2Ki 18:21).
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
He exiled and twisted. The king of Ashur exiled and twisted them. 6 Alternatively, this refers to Eretz Yisroel.—Radak
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
10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַיּ֤וֹ | ʾaiyo | where [is]? he | H335 → | |
| מֶֽלֶךְ־ | melekh- | [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| חֲמָת֙ | chamat | Hamath | H2574 → | 35 times |
| וּמֶ֣לֶךְ | umelekh | and [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| אַרְפָּ֔ד | ʾarpad | Arpad | H774 → | |
| וּמֶ֖לֶךְ | umelekh | and [the] king of | H4428 → | 2525 times |
| לָעִ֣יר | lair | Lair | H5892 → | 1090 times |
| סְפַרְוָ֑יִם | sefarvayim | Sepharvaim | H5617 → | 6 times |
| הֵנַ֖ע | hena' | Hena | H2012 → | |
| וְעִוָּֽה׃ | veivah | and Ivvah | H5755 → | 4 times |
אַיּ֤וֹwhere [is]? he
ʾaiyoH335 →
מֶֽלֶךְ־[the] king of
melekh-H4428 →2525 times
חֲמָת֙Hamath
chamatH2574 →35 times
וּמֶ֣לֶךְand [the] king of
umelekhH4428 →2525 times
אַרְפָּ֔דArpad
ʾarpadH774 →
וּמֶ֖לֶךְand [the] king of
umelekhH4428 →2525 times
לָעִ֣ירLair
lairH5892 →1090 times
סְפַרְוָ֑יִםSepharvaim
sefarvayimH5617 →6 times
הֵנַ֖עHena
hena'H2012 →
וְעִוָּֽה׃and Ivvah
veivahH5755 →4 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
Isaiah 11:11On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and…
it leads to
- Zechariah 10:8–12
I will whistle for them to gather, for I have redeemed them; and they will be as numerous as they once were.
- Micah 7:12
On that day they will come to you from Assyria and the cities of Egypt, even from Egypt to the Euphrates, from sea to sea and mountain to mountain.
- Isaiah 10:20
On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy…
- Hosea 3:4–5
For the Israelites must live many days without king or prince, without sacrifice or sacred pillar, and without ephod or idol.
- Leviticus 26:40–42
But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me—
- Zechariah 10:8–12
Through
Zechariah 9:2and also against Hamath, which borders it, as well as Tyre and Sidon, though they are very shrewd.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 49:23
Concerning Damascus: “Hamath and Arpad are put to shame, for they have heard a bad report; they are agitated like the sea; their anxiety cannot be calmed.
- Ezekiel 28:12
“Son of man, take up a lament for the king of Tyre and tell him that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You were the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect…
- Jeremiah 49:23
Through
Jeremiah 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of…
it leads to
- 2 Kings 23:33
And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and…
- 2 Kings 23:33
Where this verse is studied
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About 2 Kings
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.