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2 Kings 19:28 KJV
2 Kings · chapter 19 · verse 28
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.2 Kings 19:28 · King James Version
2 Kings 19:28 in context
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.
28Because 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.
29And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- tumultshaʼănânsecureH7600 →
- bridlemethega bitH4964 →
- ragerâgazto quiverH7264 →
- earsʼôzenbroadnessH241 →
- hookchâcha ring for the noseH2397 →
- noseʼaphproperly, the nose or nostrilH639 →
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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