2 Kings 19:23

Translations

Modern

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

Traditional

By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

Literal

By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: “By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Lebanon. And I will cut down the height of its cedars, the choice of its cypresses, and I will enter the ends of its borders, the forest of its orchard.

Latin

Per manum servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino, et dixisti: In multitudine curruum meorum ascendi excelsa montium in summitate Libani, et succidi sublimes cedros ejus, et electas abietes illius. Et ingressus sum usque ad terminos ejus, et saltum Carmeli ejus

Original

Hebrew

English

Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

Notes

2 Kings 19:23–24

the heights of the mountains … of Lebanon: In his records, Sennacherib described climbing high mountain passes and cutting down Lebanon's great trees. Sennacherib felt unbeatable, but he was just a man, no match for the all-knowing Lord of the universe (1 Chronicles 28:9).

2 Kings 19:21–28

The phrase Virgin Daughter is often used to describe a city or nation (Isaiah 23:12; 37:22; 47:1; Jeremiah 18:13). Here, it means that just as a young woman is saved from danger, God will save Jerusalem. The Lord's response came as a "taunt song," a common ancient Near Eastern literary form that celebrated an enemy's defeat (see Isaiah 14:3–20).

Theme notes and profiles

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

Events

Reign of Hezekiahc. 726 BC

Related verses

Psalm 20:7
Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God.
2 Kings 18:17
Nevertheless, the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh, along with a great army, from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. They advanced up to Jerusalem and stationed themselves by the aqueduct of the upper pool, on the road to the Launderer’s Field.
Isaiah 10:18
The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
2 Kings 18:33–34
Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
Isaiah 37:24–25
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
Isaiah 10:14
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
Ezekiel 31:3–18
Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
2 Kings 18:23
Now, therefore, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria. I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them!
2 Chronicles 32:17
He also wrote letters mocking the LORD, the God of Israel, and saying against Him: “Just as the gods of the nations did not deliver their people from my hand, so the God of Hezekiah will not deliver His people from my hand.”
Isaiah 10:7–11
But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations.
2 Chronicles 26:10
Since he had much livestock in the foothills and in the plain, he built towers in the desert and dug many cisterns. And since he was a lover of the soil, he had farmers and vinedressers in the hill country and in the fertile fields.

Parallels

Isaiah 37:21–35

People

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God

Places

Lebanon: A mountainous region known for its cedar trees

Glossary

Assyria, Assyrians Hezekiah Kings, Books of First and Second Pine Tree Psalms, Book of Tirhakah Warfare

Topics

Ambition: Sennacherib Assyria: As a Power, Was: Proud and Haughty Assyria: Sennacherib King of Reproved for Pride and Blasphemy Carmel: A Fertile and Picturesque Mountain in Palestine: Forests of Chariots used in War by The: Assyrians Confidence: Sennacherib False Confidence: Sennacherib, in the Siege of Jerusalem Forests: Carmel Forests: Often Destroyed by Enemies Hezekiah: King of Judah: Prophecies Concerning Jerusalem: Besieged by Sennacherib Jerusalem: Calamities of, Mentioned: Besieged but not Taken by Sennacherib Lebanon: Cedars of Lebanon: Difficulties of Passing, Surmounted by Assyrian Army Lebanon: Other Trees of Mountains: Abounded With: Forests Mountains: Carmel Prophecy: Miscellaneous, Fulfilled: Destruction of Sennacherib's Army, and his Death Trees: Fir Trees: Often Suffered From: Desolating Armies

2 Kings 19:23

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