2 Kings 19:17
Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their land,
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 9:8And the whole house of Achab shall perish: and I will cut off from Achab every male, and the guarded and fortified in Israel;
2 Kings 17:6In the ninth year of Hoshea' did the king of Assyria capture Samaria, and he led Israel away as exiles into Assyria, and settled them in Chalach and in Chabor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of Media.
2 Kings 18:33Have the gods of the nations delivered in anywise each his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
Job 9:2Truly I know that it is so: and how could a mortal be righteous before God?
Isaiah 7:17The Lord will bring over thee, and over thy people, and over thy father's house, days that have not come, from the day that Ephraim withdrew from Judah,—the king of Assyria.
Jeremiah 26:15But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye will surely place [the guilt of] innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for in truth hath the Lord sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.
Matthew Henry on 2 Kings 19:9-20
Sennacherib Sends to Hezekiah. ( b. c. 710.) 8 So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. 9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying, 10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. 11… Read the whole commentary →