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2 Kings 19:22-24
New English Translation
2 Kings 19:22-24
New English Translation
22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?
At whom have you shouted,[a]
and looked so arrogantly?[b]
At the Holy One of Israel![c]
23 Through your messengers you taunted the Sovereign Master,[d]
‘With my many chariots[e]
I climbed up the high mountains,
the slopes of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars
and its best evergreens.
I invaded its most remote regions,[f]
its thickest woods.
24 I dug wells and drank
water in foreign lands.[g]
With the soles of my feet I dried up
all the rivers of Egypt.’
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 19:22 tn Heb “have you raised a voice.”
- 2 Kings 19:22 tn Heb “and lifted your eyes on high?”
- 2 Kings 19:22 sn This divine title pictures the Lord as the sovereign king who rules over his covenant people and exercises moral authority over them.
- 2 Kings 19:23 tn The word is אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay), “lord,” but some Hebrew mss have יְהוָה (yehvah), “Lord.”
- 2 Kings 19:23 tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has בְּרֶכֶב (berekhev), but this must be dittographic (note the following רִכְבִּי [rikhbi], “my chariots”). The marginal reading (Qere) בְּרֹב (berov), “with many,” is supported by many Hebrew mss and ancient versions, as well as the parallel passage in Isa 37:24.
- 2 Kings 19:23 tn Heb “the lodging place of its extremity.”
- 2 Kings 19:24 tn Heb “I dug and drank foreign waters.”
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