2 Kings 19:28
Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogance has come up into my 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 came.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
27But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
Cross References
2 Kings 19:33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says LORD.
Job 41:2Can thou put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage, and the peoples meditate vain things (LXX/NT)?
Psalms 10:13Why does the wicked man despise God, and say in his heart, Thou will not require [it]?
Psalms 46:6The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved, he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Psalms 74:4Thine adversaries have roared in the midst of thine assembly. They have set up their ensigns for signs.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 19:21-35
Sennacherib's Fall Predicted. ( b. c. 710.) 20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. 21 This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. 22 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted… Read the whole commentary →