2 Kings 19:11
9 Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “Look, he has set out to fight against you.” So Sennacherib again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,
10 “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
13 Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. Will you then be spared?
- KJV
- Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
- WEB
- Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
- ASV
- Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
- DARBY
- Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered?
- BLB
- Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, devoting them to destruction. And shall you be delivered?
- ÅB
- Du har hørt hva kongene i Assyria har gjort med alle landene, at de har ødelagt dem, og du skulle bli reddet?
- OTB
- Se, du har hørt hva kongene av Assyria har gjort med alle landene, og ødelagt dem fullstendig. Så vil du bli frelst?
- B1930
- Du har hørt hvad kongene i Assyria har gjort med alle landene, at de har ødelagt dem, og du skulde bli reddet?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 10:8–11
“Are not all my commanders kings?” he says.
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:13–14
Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Have the gods of these nations ever been able to deliver their land from my hand?
Read in context2 Kings 19:17–18
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.
Read in context2 Kings 17:5–11
Then the king of Assyria invaded the whole land, marched up to Samaria, and besieged it for three years.
Read in context