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2 Kings 19

2 Kings 19:23 KJV (With Strong’s)

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yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
thy messengers
mal'ak (Hebrew #4397)
a messenger; specifically, of God, i.e. an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher)
KJV usage: ambassador, angel, king, messenger.
Pronounce: mal-awk'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy
thou hast reproached
charaph. (Hebrew #2778)
to pull off, i.e. (by implication) to expose (as by stripping); specifically, to betroth (as if a surrender); figuratively, to carp at, i.e. defame; denominative (from 2779) to spend the winter
KJV usage: betroth, blaspheme, defy, jeopard, rail, reproach, upbraid.
Pronounce: khaw-raf'
Origin: a primitive root
the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
, and hast said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, With the multitude
rob (Hebrew #7230)
abundance (in any respect)
KJV usage: abundance(- antly), all, X common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), X very (age).
Pronounce: robe
Origin: from 7231
of my chariots
rekeb (Hebrew #7393)
a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e. the upper millstone
KJV usage: chariot, (upper) millstone, multitude (from the margin), wagon.
Pronounce: reh'-keb
Origin: from 7392
rekeb (Hebrew #7393)
a vehicle; by implication, a team; by extension, cavalry; by analogy a rider, i.e. the upper millstone
KJV usage: chariot, (upper) millstone, multitude (from the margin), wagon.
Pronounce: reh'-keb
Origin: from 7392
o I am come up
`alah (Hebrew #5927)
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative (as follow)
KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, + shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, X mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, + perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Pronounce: aw-law'
Origin: a primitive root
to the height
marowm (Hebrew #4791)
altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
KJV usage: (far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward.
Pronounce: maw-rome'
Origin: from 7311
of the mountains
har (Hebrew #2022)
a mountain or range of hills (sometimes used figuratively)
KJV usage: hill (country), mount(-ain), X promotion.
Pronounce: har
Origin: a shortened form of 2042
, to the sides
yrekah (Hebrew #3411)
properly, the flank; but used only figuratively, the rear or recess
KJV usage: border, coast, part, quarter, side.
Pronounce: yer-ay-kaw'
Origin: feminine of 3409
of Lebanon
Lbanown (Hebrew #3844)
(the) white mountain (from its snow); Lebanon, a mountain range in Palestine
KJV usage: Lebanon.
Pronounce: leb-aw-nohn'
Origin: from 3825
, and will cut down
karath (Hebrew #3772)
to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e. make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutting flesh and passing between the pieces)
KJV usage: be chewed, be con-(feder-)ate, covenant, cut (down, off), destroy, fail, feller, be freed, hew (down), make a league ((covenant)), X lose, perish, X utterly, X want.
Pronounce: kaw-rath'
Origin: a primitive root
ζthe tall
qowmah (Hebrew #6967)
height
KJV usage: X along, height, high, stature, tall.
Pronounce: ko-maw'
Origin: from 6965
cedar trees
'erez (Hebrew #730)
a cedar tree (from the tenacity of its roots)
KJV usage: cedar (tree).
Pronounce: eh-rez'
Origin: from 729
thereof, and the choice
mibchowr (Hebrew #4004)
select, i.e. well fortified
KJV usage: choice.
Pronounce: mib-khore'
Origin: from 977
fir trees
browsh (Hebrew #1265)
a cypress (?) tree; hence, a lance or a musical instrument (as made of that wood)
KJV usage: fir (tree).
Pronounce: ber-osh'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
thereof: and I will enter
bow' (Hebrew #935)
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: abide, apply, attain, X be, befall, + besiege, bring (forth, in, into, to pass), call, carry, X certainly, (cause, let, thing for) to come (against, in, out, upon, to pass), depart, X doubtless again, + eat, + employ, (cause to) enter (in, into, -tering, -trance, -try), be fallen, fetch, + follow, get, give, go (down, in, to war), grant, + have, X indeed, (in-)vade, lead, lift (up), mention, pull in, put, resort, run (down), send, set, X (well) stricken (in age), X surely, take (in), way.
Pronounce: bo
Origin: a primitive root
into the lodgings
malown (Hebrew #4411)
a lodgment, i.e. caravanserai or encampment
KJV usage: inn, place where...lodge, lodging (place).
Pronounce: maw-lone'
Origin: from 3885
of his borders
qets (Hebrew #7093)
an extremity; adverbially (with prepositional prefix) after
KJV usage: + after, (utmost) border, end, (in-)finite, X process.
Pronounce: kates
Origin: contracted from 7112
, and into ηthe forest
ya`ar (Hebrew #3293)
a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
KJV usage: (honey-)comb, forest, wood.
Pronounce: yah'-ar
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure
of his Carmel
Karmel (Hebrew #3760)
Karmel, the name of a hill and of a town in Palestine
KJV usage: Carmel, fruitful (plentiful) field, (place).
Pronounce: kar-mel'
Origin: the same as 3759
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by the hand of.
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Psa. 20:7• 7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. (Psa. 20:7)
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the tallness.
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or, the forest and his fruitful field,
Isa. 10:18• 18And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth. (Isa. 10:18)
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Carmel,
Cedar,
Fir; Fir-Tree,
Forest,
Lebanon,
Mountain Mount

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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By.
Heb. By the hand of.
messengers.
2 Kings 18:17• 17And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller's field. (2 Kings 18:17)
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2 Chron. 32:17• 17He wrote also letters to rail on the Lord God of Israel, and to speak against him, saying, As the gods of the nations of other lands have not delivered their people out of mine hand, so shall not the God of Hezekiah deliver his people out of mine hand. (2 Chron. 32:17)
With the multitude.
2 Kings 18:23,33‑34• 23Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my lord the king of Assyria, and I will deliver thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
 33Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered at all his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
 34Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah? have they delivered Samaria out of mine hand? (2 Kings 18:23,33‑34)
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Psa. 20:7• 7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. (Psa. 20:7)
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Isa. 10:7‑11,14• 7Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
 8For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
 9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
 10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
 11Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
 14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. (Isa. 10:7‑11,14)
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Isa. 37:24‑25• 24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
 25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places. (Isa. 37:24‑25)
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Ezek. 31:3‑18• 3Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
 4The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto all the trees of the field.
 5Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
 6All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young, and under his shadow dwelt all great nations.
 7Thus was he fair in his greatness, in the length of his branches: for his root was by great waters.
 8The cedars in the garden of God could not hide him: the fir trees were not like his boughs, and the chesnut trees were not like his branches; nor any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty.
 9I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.
 10Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
 11I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.
 12And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.
 13Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
 14To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
 15Thus saith the Lord God; In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
 16I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth.
 17They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword; and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen.
 18To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God. (Ezek. 31:3‑18)
tall cedar trees thereof.
Heb. tallness of the cedar-treesthereof.
the forest of his Carmel.
or, the forest, and his fruitful field.
• The Assyrian in his foolishness had lifted up his eyes against the Holy One of Israel. He had been the rod of the wrath of God, who had given him this power from long before, but he had become proud of his success and had not feared to lift himself up against God. (“Sennacherib and the Lord: 2 Kings 19” by H.L. Rossier)

J. N. Darby Translation

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By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots have I come up To the height of the mountain, to the recesses of Lebanon, And I will cut down its tall cedars, the choice of its cypresses; And I will enter into its furthest lodging-place, into the forest of its fruitful fieldc.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "forest of his Carmel."