Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
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Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
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Passages linked to 2 Kings 19:11 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 2 Kings 17:5-11 Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the nations whom Yahweh cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they made. The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right against Yahweh their God; and they built high places for themselves in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city; and they set up for themselves pillars and Asherah poles on every high hill, and under every green tree; and there they burned incense in all the high places, as the nations whom Yahweh carried away before them did; and they did wicked things to provoke Yahweh to anger;
- 2 Kings 19:17-18 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 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.
- 2 Chronicles 32:13-14 Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand? Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?
- Isaiah 10:8-11 For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings? Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?” As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria; shall I not, as I have done to Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings…
2Ki 19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Ver. 11. Behold, thau hast heard.] See 2Ki 18:33-35.
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To all lands, by destroying them utterly.] Not all, nor utterly neither; but the tongue, that little member, boasteth great things. {Jas 3:5} He talketh here like some Pyrgopolynices or Therapontigonoplatagidorias in Plautus. {a}
{a} In Curcul.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain No, certainly, never expect it: such questions oft imply…
No, certainly, never expect it: such questions oft imply a denial, as Gen 18:17.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain All lands - This boast is in strict accordance…
All lands - This boast is in strict accordance with the general tenor of the Assyrian inscriptions. Hyperbole is the general language of the East; but in this instance it was not so extreme as in some others. The Assyrians under Sargon and Sennacherib had enjoyed an uninterrupted series of military successes: they had succeeded in establishing their pre-eminence from the Median desert to the banks of the Nile, and from the shores of Lake Van to those of the Persian Gulf.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. by destroying them utterly] The verb implies ‘dooming’,…
11. by destroying them utterly] The verb implies ‘dooming’, ‘devoting as if to a curse’. Hence the LXX. represents it by ἀναθεματίσαι.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (11) All lands, by destroying them utterly.—All the countries,…
(11) All lands, by destroying them utterly.—All the countries, by putting them under the ban, i.e., solemnly devoting all that lived in them to extermination.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria…
Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. (see the comment on 2Ki_18:33) The fact was indisputable (secret. 17). The question remained Would this triumphant career of success necessarily continue?
And shalt thou be delivered? A perfect induction is impossible in practical matters. Anything short of a perfect induction is short of a proof.
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