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Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I 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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A Humiliating Reversal
Commentators explain that the "hook in thy nose" was not just a figure of speech. Assyrian and Babylonian kings literally put rings through the noses or lips of high-ranking prisoners to lead them in humiliation. God promises to subject the arrogant King Sennacherib to the very same degrading treatment he inflicted on others, demonstrating a powerful, ironic reversal of justice.
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2 Kings
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Thy tumult - Rather, “your arrogance.”
I will put my hook in thy nose - Rather, “my ring.” The sculptures show that the kings o…
19th Century
Anglican
Because thy rage ... is come up. —Literally, Because of your rage ... and of your self confidence ([Ref…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)
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All Sennacherib's movements were under Divine cognizance. God Himself undertakes to defend the city; and that person, that place, which He undertak…
