2 Kings 19:18

And they have placed their gods into the fire; for they are no gods, but the work of man's hands, wood and stone: and these have they destroyed.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.

In Context

17Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their land,

19And now, O Lord our God, save us, I beseech thee, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, thou alone.

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Cross References

2 Samuel 5:21And they left behind there their idols, and David and his men burnt them.

Psalms 115:4Their idols are sliver and gold, the work of the hands of man.

Isaiah 44:9The makers of graven images are all vanity; and their costly idols cannot profit; and they are their own witnesses, that they see not and know not, in order that they may be ashamed.

Jeremiah 10:3For the statutes of these people concern what is vanity; for it is but a tree which a man hath cut out of a forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Jeremiah 16:20How? can a man make unto himself gods, which are yet no gods?

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 →

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