2 Kings 19:15

Translations

Modern

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Traditional

And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

Literal

And Hezekiah prayed before the face of YHWH and said, “O YHWH, God of Israel, dwelling between the cherubim, You alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

Latin

…et oravit in conspectu ejus, dicens: Domine Deus Israël, qui sedes super cherubim, tu es Deus solus regum omnium terræ: tu fecisti cælum et terram.

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English

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Notes

2 Kings 19:14–19

Hezekiah got Sennacherib’s disrespectful letter and took it straight to the temple of the Lord. He prayed to God with both praise (2 Kings 19:15) and requests (2 Kings 19:16–19).

Theme notes and profiles

Assyria Hezekiah Isaiah God as Holy Warrior God’s Judgment of His People Invasion Nehemiah’s Confidence in God

Events

Reign of Hezekiahc. 726 BC

Related verses

Exodus 25:22
And I will meet with you there above the mercy seat, between the two cherubim that are over the ark of the Testimony; I will speak with you about all that I command you regarding the Israelites.
Jeremiah 10:10–12
But the LORD is the true God; He is the living God and eternal King. The earth quakes at His wrath, and the nations cannot endure His indignation.
Isaiah 44:8
Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.”
Daniel 9:3–4
So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
1 Kings 18:39
When all the people saw this, they fell facedown and said, “The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!”
2 Kings 5:15
Then Naaman and all his attendants went back to the man of God, stood before him, and declared, “Now I know for sure that there is no God in all the earth except in Israel. So please accept a gift from your servant.”
Daniel 4:34–35
But at the end of those days I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked up to heaven, and my sanity was restored to me. Then I praised the Most High, and I honored and glorified Him who lives forever: “For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
Isaiah 44:6
Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
John 1:1–3
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Psalm 102:25
In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Genesis 2:4
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
Isaiah 45:22
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

Parallels

Isaiah 37:14–20

People

Hezekiah: A righteous king of Judah Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes

Glossary

Assyria, Assyrians Blasphemy Hezekiah Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven Kings, Books of First and Second Psalms, Book of Sennacherib Tirhakah Warfare

Topics

Assyria: Sennacherib King of Prayed Against by Hezekiah Assyria: Sennacherib King of Reproved for Pride and Blasphemy Cherubim of Gold: God's Presence Manifested Between Earth: Created by God God: Creator God: Personality of God: Sovereign Jerusalem: Calamities of, Mentioned: Besieged but not Taken by Sennacherib Mercy-Seat: The Shekinah Upon Prayer: Answered: Hezekiah and Isaiah, for Deliverance from Sennacherib Prayer: Pleas offered In Religion: Outstanding Religious Persons: Hezekiah Shekinah: The Visible Sign of God's Presence on the Ark of the Testimony in the Holy of Holies Temple: Solomon's for Prayer and Worship Unity of God: All Saints Acknowledge, in Worshipping Him

2 Kings 19:15

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