2 Kings 19:28
in 2 Kings 19Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
KJV
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
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This verse in 2 Kings 19
Commentary
4 notes on this verseI will put my hook in thy nose - This seems to be an allusion to the method of guiding a buffalo; he has a sort of ring put into his nose, to which a cord or bridle is attached, by which he can be turned to the right, or to the left, or round about, according to the pleasure of his driver.
This site's exposition
thy going out, and thy coming in
on 2 Kings 19:27-28
God's claim to know Sennacherib's abode, going out and rage answers the king's own boast of knowing every road in the region: everything Sennacherib claims to survey, he is himself already known by. The hook in the nose and the bridle in the lips are an animal's furniture, the same imagery Scripture uses of Leviathan at Job 41 and of Egypt's own king at Ezek 29:4, and here it turns Assyria's proud advance into a beast being led back the way it came.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
This shall be a sign to them of God's favour, and that he is reconciled to them, and his anger is turned away ( Isa. xii. 1 ), a wonder in their eyes (for so a sign sometimes signifies), a token for good, and an earnest of the further mercy God has in store for them, that a good issue shall be put to their present distress in every respect.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Thy tumult - Rather, “thy arrogance.” I will put my hook in nose - Rather, “my ring.” The sculptures show that the kings of Babylon and Assyria were in the habit of actually passing a ring through the flesh of their more distinguished prisoners, of attaching a thong or a rope to it, and of thus leading them about as with a “bridle.” In Assyria the ring was, at least ordinarily, passed through the lower lip; while in Babylonia it appears to have been inserted into the membrane of the nose. Thus Sennacherib would be here threatened with a punishment which he was perhaps in the habit of inflicting.
The words behind it
16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יַ֚עַן | yaan | because | H3282 → | 99 times |
| הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ֣ | hitragezkha | raging you | H7264 → | |
| אֵלַ֔י | ʾelai | against me | H413 → | 5510 times |
| וְשַׁאֲנַנְךָ֖ | veshaanankha | and arrogance your | H7600 → | |
| עָלָ֣ה | ʾalah | it has come up | H5927 → | 890 times |
| בְאָזְנָ֑י | veazenai | in ears my | H241 → | 187 times |
| וְשַׂמְתִּ֨י | vesamti | and I will put | H7760 → | 584 times |
| חַחִ֜י | chachi | hook my | H2397 → | |
| בְּאַפֶּ֗ךָ | beapekha | in nose your | H639 → | 276 times |
| וּמִתְגִּי֙ | umitgi | and bridle my | H4964 → | |
| בִּשְׂפָתֶ֔יךָ | bisfateikha | on lips your | H8193 → | 176 times |
| וַהֲשִׁ֣בֹתִ֔יךָ | vahashivotikha | and I will bring back you | H7725 → | 1056 times |
| בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְ | baderekh | by the way | H1870 → | 707 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| בָּ֥אתָ | bata | you came | H935 → | 2568 times |
| בָּֽהּ׃ | bah | by it |
יַ֚עַןbecause
yaanH3282 →99 times
הִתְרַגֶּזְךָ֣raging you
hitragezkhaH7264 →
אֵלַ֔יagainst me
ʾelaiH413 →5510 times
וְשַׁאֲנַנְךָ֖and arrogance your
veshaanankhaH7600 →
עָלָ֣הit has come up
ʾalahH5927 →890 times
בְאָזְנָ֑יin ears my
veazenaiH241 →187 times
וְשַׂמְתִּ֨יand I will put
vesamtiH7760 →584 times
חַחִ֜יhook my
chachiH2397 →
בְּאַפֶּ֗ךָin nose your
beapekhaH639 →276 times
וּמִתְגִּי֙and bridle my
umitgiH4964 →
בִּשְׂפָתֶ֔יךָon lips your
bisfateikhaH8193 →176 times
וַהֲשִׁ֣בֹתִ֔יךָand I will bring back you
vahashivotikhaH7725 →1056 times
בַּדֶּ֖רֶךְby the way
baderekhH1870 →707 times
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
בָּ֥אתָyou came
bataH935 →2568 times
בָּֽהּ׃by it
bah
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 30:28His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
it leads to
- Isaiah 37:29
Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’
Reached by 4 separate paths from here.
- Isaiah 8:8
It will pour into Judah, swirling and sweeping over it, reaching up to the neck; its spreading streams will cover your entire land, O Immanuel!
- Isaiah 11:4
but with righteousness He will judge the poor, and with equity He will decide for the lowly of the earth. He will strike the earth with the rod of His mouth and slay the…
- 2 Thessalonians 2:8
And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival.
- Isaiah 37:29
Through
Amos 4:2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 16:16
But for now I will send for many fishermen, declares the LORD, and they will catch them. After that I will send for many hunters, and they will hunt them down on every mountain…
- Psalms 89:35
Once and for all I have sworn by My holiness— I will not lie to David—
- Habakkuk 1:15–16
The foe pulls all of them up with a hook; he catches them in his dragnet, and gathers them in his fishing net; so he rejoices gladly.
- Jeremiah 16:16
Through
Ezekiel 29:4But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 38:4
I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all…
- Ezekiel 38:4
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 and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil, The Books of the Kings and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.