2 Kings 19
King James Version · 37 verses · 711 cross-references linking it to 318 other chapters
Explore 2 Kings 19 in the interactive map- 1And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.28 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:37, 1 Kings 21:27, Genesis 37:34, 2 Chronicles 32:20–22, Isaiah 37:1–7
- 2And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.17 cross-references: Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, 2 Kings 22:13–14, 2 Chronicles 26:22, Isaiah 37:2–5
- 3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.17 cross-references: Jeremiah 30:5–7, Hebrews 3:15–16, Hosea 13:13, Isaiah 26:17–18, Isaiah 66:9
- 4It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab–shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.43 cross-references: 2 Samuel 16:12, Ezekiel 36:37, James 5:16–17, Joshua 14:12, Romans 9:27
- 5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
- 6And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.24 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:17, 2 Kings 18:35, Isaiah 37:6–38, 2 Chronicles 20:15, 2 Kings 18:30
- 7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.24 cross-references: 2 Kings 7:6, Obadiah 1:1, 2 Chronicles 32:21, Job 15:21, Psalms 50:3
- 8So Rab–shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.16 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:14, Joshua 10:29, 2 Kings 8:22, Isaiah 37:8–9, Joshua 15:42
- 9And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,11 cross-references: 1 Samuel 23:27, Isaiah 37:9, 2 Kings 18:17
- 10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.19 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 18:29–30, 2 Chronicles 32:15–19, Isaiah 37:10–14
- 11Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?7 cross-references: 2 Kings 17:5–11, 2 Chronicles 32:13–14, 2 Kings 19:17–18, Isaiah 10:8–11
- 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?22 cross-references: 2 Kings 17:6, Genesis 11:31, Ezekiel 27:23, Isaiah 37:12, 1 Chronicles 5:26
- 13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?15 cross-references: 2 Kings 18:34, Jeremiah 39:5, Numbers 13:21, Zechariah 9:2, Isaiah 11:11
- 14And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.12 cross-references: Isaiah 37:14, Psalms 123:1–4, Psalms 91:1–2, 1 Kings 8:28–30, Psalms 74:10–11
- 15And 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.51 cross-references: Exodus 25:22, Daniel 4:34–35, Isaiah 44:8, 2 Kings 5:15, Jeremiah 10:10–12
- 16Lord, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.16 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 6:40, 2 Kings 19:4, Psalms 31:2, Isaiah 37:17, 1 Kings 8:29
- 17Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,22 cross-references: Luke 22:59, 2 Kings 17:6, Job 9:2, Isaiah 5:9, 1 Corinthians 14:25
- 18And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.14 cross-references: Acts 17:29, Jeremiah 10:3–9, Isaiah 44:9–20, Isaiah 46:1–2, 2 Samuel 5:21
- 19Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.31 cross-references: Psalms 83:18, 1 Kings 8:43, Psalms 67:1–2, 1 Kings 20:28, Exodus 9:15–16
- 20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.22 cross-references: 2 Kings 20:5, 2 Chronicles 32:20–21, Jeremiah 33:3, 1 John 5:14–15, Isaiah 65:24
- 21This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.33 cross-references: Lamentations 2:13, Job 16:4, Jeremiah 14:17, Matthew 27:39, Lamentations 2:15
- 22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.39 cross-references: Isaiah 5:24, Psalms 71:22, 2 Thessalonians 2:4, Isaiah 30:11–12, Jeremiah 51:5
- 23By 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.18 cross-references: Psalms 20:7, 2 Kings 18:17, Isaiah 10:18, 2 Kings 18:23, Isaiah 10:7–11
- 24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.7 cross-references: Exodus 15:9, 2 Samuel 17:13, Isaiah 19:6, 1 Kings 20:10, Daniel 4:30
- 25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.15 cross-references: Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 10:5–6, Isaiah 37:26–27, Psalms 33:11, Psalms 76:10
- 26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.18 cross-references: 1 Peter 1:24, Numbers 14:9, James 1:10–11, Psalms 102:11, Jeremiah 51:30
- 27But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.11 cross-references: Isaiah 37:28–29, Jeremiah 23:23–24, Psalms 139:1–11, Psalms 121:8, Deuteronomy 28:6
- 28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.35 cross-references: Ezekiel 29:4, 2 Kings 19:33, Ezekiel 38:4, Amos 4:2, Isaiah 30:28
- 29And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.17 cross-references: Leviticus 25:20–22, 2 Kings 20:8–9, Exodus 3:12, Luke 2:12, Isaiah 37:30
- 30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.11 cross-references: Isaiah 27:6, 2 Kings 19:4, Isaiah 10:20–22, 2 Chronicles 32:22–23, Isaiah 37:31–32
- 31For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.17 cross-references: Isaiah 9:7, Romans 11:5, Isaiah 10:20, Romans 9:27, Ezekiel 20:9
- 32Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it.13 cross-references: 2 Samuel 20:15, Isaiah 8:7–10, Isaiah 10:24–25, Ezekiel 21:22, Isaiah 10:28–32
- 33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord.4 cross-references: 2 Kings 19:28, 2 Kings 19:36
- 34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.27 cross-references: 1 Kings 11:12–13, 2 Kings 20:6, 1 Kings 15:4, Isaiah 31:5, Jeremiah 33:26
- 35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.37 cross-references: 2 Chronicles 32:21–22, 2 Samuel 24:16, Exodus 12:29–30, Psalms 76:5–7, 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
- 36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.16 cross-references: Jonah 1:2, 2 Kings 19:33, 2 Kings 19:28, 2 Kings 19:7, Jonah 3:2–10
- 37And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.20 cross-references: Ezra 4:2, Genesis 8:4, 2 Kings 19:7, Jeremiah 51:27, 2 Chronicles 32:14
Explained connections
- Hezekiah's prayer
Spreading the Assyrian letter before the LORD in the temple, Hezekiah prays for deliverance. The prayer appears word for word in both books, and the Assyrian army is struck down.
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People in 2 Kings 19
God, Hezekiah, Isaiah, Sennacherib, Amoz, Rabshakeh, Judah, Eliakim, Shebna, Tirhakah, David, Adrammelech, Sharezer, Esar-haddon
Places in 2 Kings 19
Assyria, Jerusalem, Libnah, Lachish, Cush, Eden, Gozan, Telassar, Haran, Rezeph, Ivvah, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, Hamath, Zion, Lebanon, Mount Zion, Nineveh