2 Kings 19:28

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.’

Berean Standard Bible

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 know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.

29And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. But in the third year you will sow and reap; you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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Cross References

2 Kings 19:33He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.

Job 41:2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?

Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

Psalms 10:13Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Psalms 46:6Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.

Psalms 74:4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as 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 →

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