2 Kings 19:23 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | RSV

By your messengers you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, `With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.

Commentaries

Albert Barnes

AlbertBarnes

18th Century

Presbyterian

18th Century

And you have said - Isaiah puts into words the thoughts of Sennacherib’s heart—thoughts of the most extreme self-confidence. (Compare Isaiah…

Charles Ellicott

CharlesEllicott

19th Century

Anglican

19th Century

The multitude. —This is the reading of the Hebrew margin, of many MSS., Isaiah, and all the versions. The Hebrew text has “with th…

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

All Sennacherib's movements were under Divine cognizance. God Himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place, which He undertak…

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