2 Kings 19:26

And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.

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In The King James Version

Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

In Context

25But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.

27Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.

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Cross References

Numbers 11:23And the Lord answered him: “Can the hand of the Lord be ineffective? Soon now, you shall see whether my word will be fulfilled in this work.”

Psalms 48:4My mouth will speak wisdom, and the meditation of my heart will speak prudence.

Psalms 102:11For according to the height of the heavens above the earth, so has he reinforced his mercy toward those who fear him.

Psalms 129:6From the morning watch, even until night, let Israel hope in the Lord.

Jeremiah 37:10Therefore, when the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem because of Pharaoh’s army,

Jeremiah 51:30The strong ones of Babylon have ceased to do battle. They have lived in fortresses. Their health has been devoured, and they have become like women. Her tabernacles have been set ablaze; her bars have been broken.

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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