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2 Kings 19:28

Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

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  • WEB World English Bible

    Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’

  • KJV King James Version

    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.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Because of thy raging against Me, and for that thy tumult is come up into Mine ears, therefore will I 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.

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Cross-references (22)

Passages linked to 2 Kings 19:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Ezekiel 29:4 I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales. I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
  • 2 Kings 19:33 He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
  • Ezekiel 38:4 I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
  • Amos 4:2 The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
  • Job 41:2 Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
  • Isaiah 30:28 His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
  • 2 Kings 19:36-37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
  • Psalms 2:1-5 Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying, “Let’s break their bonds apart, and cast their cords from us.” He who sits in the heavens will laugh. The Lord will have them in derision. Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
  • Psalms 7:6 Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
  • Psalms 10:13-14 Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?” But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.
  • Psalms 32:9 Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
  • Psalms 46:6 The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice and the earth melted.
  • Psalms 65:7 You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
  • Psalms 74:4 Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
  • Psalms 74:23 Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
  • Psalms 83:2 For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
  • Psalms 93:3-4 The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
  • Ezekiel 19:9 They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, so that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
  • Luke 6:11 But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
  • John 15:18 If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
  • John 15:23-24 He who hates me, hates my Father also. If I hadn’t done among them the works which no one else did, they wouldn’t have had sin. But now they have seen and also hated both me and my Father.
  • Acts 7:51 “You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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Explain this verse (13 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain I will bridle thy rage, and turn thee to…

I will bridle thy rage, and turn thee to and fro as pleaseth me.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ki 19:28 Because thy rage against me and thy…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Thy tumult, i.e. thy tumultuous noise, thy clamours and…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain My hook, &c. - What a comfort is it,…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 28. I will put my hook in thy…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 2Ki 19:28. Thy rage and thy tumult is come…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Thy tumult - Rather, “thy arrogance.”
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Ring, or hook, like that with which fishes are…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 28. Thy tumult — Rather, thy arrogance; a reference…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 28. is come up into mine ears] So the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (28) Because thy rage . . . is come…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult rather,…
Alexander MacLaren 1905 · Public Domain 2 Kings

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