Isaiah 37:24

By your servants you have defied the Lord and have said, 'With the multitude of my chariots 1 I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the highest elevations of Lebanon. 1 I will cut down its tall cedars and choice cypress trees there, 1 and I will enter into its farthest high places, its most fruitful forest. 1

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In The King James Version

By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

In Context

23Whom have you defied and insulted? Against whom have you exalted your voice 1 and lifted up your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel. 1

25I have dug wells and drunk water; + 37:25 Some ancient and modern versions have I have dug wells and drunk water in foreign lands . 1 I dried up all the rivers of Egypt under the soles of my feet.' 1

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Cross References

Exodus 15:9The enemy said, 'I will pursue, I will overtake, I will share out the plunder; 1 my desire will be satisfied on them; 1 I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.' 1

Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots and others in horses, 1 but we call on Yahweh our God. 1

Isaiah 10:18Yahweh will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful land, both soul and body; 1 it will be like when a sick man's life wastes away. 1

Isaiah 29:17In just a little while, 1 Lebanon will be turned into a field, and the field will become a forest. 1

Isaiah 36:15Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely rescue us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”'

Jeremiah 22:6For Yahweh says this concerning the house of the king of Judah, 1 'You are like Gilead, or like the summit of Lebanon to me. Yet I will turn you into a wilderness, 1 into cities with no inhabitants. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 37:22-38

Sennacherib Threatened; Sennacherib Destroyed. ( b. c. 710.) 21 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria: 22 This is the word which 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. 23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and… Read the whole commentary →

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