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2 Kings 19:25 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 19 · verse 25
Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.2 Kings 19:25 · King James Version
2 Kings 19:25 in context
23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
26Therefore 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.
27But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- ancientqedemthe front, of place or timeH6924 →
- broughtbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- formedyâtsarto mould into a formH3335 →
- fencedbâtsarto gather grapesH1219 →
- citiesʻîyra city in the widest senseH5892 →
- heardshâmaʻto hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etcH8085 →
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We have here the gracious copious answer which God gave to Hezekiah's prayer. The message which he sent him by the same hand (Kg2 19:6, Kg2 19:7), one would think, was an answer sufficient to his prayer;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-34