2 Kings 19:28

Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

27But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.

29And this will be the sign to you: you will get your food this year from what comes up of itself; and in the second year from the produce of the same; and in the third year you will put in your seed and get in the grain and make vine-gardens and take of their fruit.

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:33By the way he came he will go back, and he will not get into this town, says the Lord.

Job 41:2\41:11\Who ever went against me, and got the better of me? There is no one under heaven!

Psalms 2:1Why are the nations so violently moved, and why are the thoughts of the people so foolish?

Psalms 10:13Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Psalms 46:6\46:5\God has taken his place in her; she will not be moved: he will come to her help at the dawn of morning.

Psalms 74:4Sending out their voices like lions among your worshippers; they have put up their signs to be seen.

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 →

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