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Selected Verse: 2 Kings 19:21 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| 2Ki 19:21 |
Strong Concordance |
This is the word [01697] that the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696] concerning him; The virgin [01330] the daughter [01323] of Zion [06726] hath despised [0959] thee, and laughed thee to scorn [03932]; the daughter [01323] of Jerusalem [03389] hath shaken [05128] her head [07218] at thee [0310]. |
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King James |
This 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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Concerning him - i. e., "concerning Sennacherib." Kg2 19:21-28 are addressed to the great Assyrian monarch himself, and are God's reply to his proud boastings.
The virgin, the daughter of Zion, - Rather, holy eastern city, is here distinguished from Jerusalem, the western one, and is given the remarkable epithet "virgin," which is not applied to her sister; probably because the true Zion, the city of David, had remained inviolable from David's time, having never been entered by an enemy. Jerusalem, on the other hand, had been taken, both by Shishak Kg1 14:26 and by Jehoash Kg2 14:13. The personification of cities as females is a common figure (compare marginal references).
Hath shaken her head at thee - This was a gesture of scorn with the Hebrews (compare the marginal references; Mat 27:39). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Virgin - So he calls Zion, or Jerusalem; because she was pure in good measure from that gross idolatry wherewith other people were defiled, which is called spiritual whoredom: and to signify, that God would defend her from the rape which Sennacherib intended to commit upon her with no less care than parents do their virgin daughters from those who seek to force and deflower them. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee - "So truly contemptible is thy power, and empty thy boasts, that even the young women of Jerusalem, under the guidance of Jehovah, shall be amply sufficient to discomfit all thy forces, and cause thee to return with shame to thy own country, where the most disgraceful death awaits thee." When Bishop Warburton had published his Doctrine of Grace, and chose to fall foul on some of the most religious people of the land, a young woman of the city of Gloucester exposed his graceless system in a pamphlet, to which she affixed the above words as a motto! |
39 And [1161] they that passed by [3899] reviled [987] him [846], wagging [2795] their [846] heads [2776],
13 And Jehoash [03060] king [04428] of Israel [03478] took [08610] Amaziah [0558] king [04428] of Judah [03063], the son [01121] of Jehoash [03060] the son [01121] of Ahaziah [0274], at Bethshemesh [01053], and came [0935] to Jerusalem [03389], and brake down [06555] the wall [02346] of Jerusalem [03389] from the gate [08179] of Ephraim [0669] unto the corner [06438] gate [08179], four [0702] hundred [03967] cubits [0520].
26 And he took away [03947] the treasures [0214] of the house [01004] of the LORD [03068], and the treasures [0214] of the king's [04428] house [01004]; he even took away [03947] all: and he took away [03947] all the shields [04043] of gold [02091] which Solomon [08010] had made [06213].
21 This is the word [01697] that the LORD [03068] hath spoken [01696] concerning him; The virgin [01330] the daughter [01323] of Zion [06726] hath despised [0959] thee, and laughed thee to scorn [03932]; the daughter [01323] of Jerusalem [03389] hath shaken [05128] her head [07218] at thee [0310].
22 Whom hast thou reproached [02778] and blasphemed [01442]? and against whom hast thou exalted [07311] thy voice [06963], and lifted up [05375] thine eyes [05869] on high [04791]? even against the Holy [06918] One of Israel [03478].
23 By [03027] thy messengers [04397] thou hast reproached [02778] the Lord [0136], and hast said [0559], With the multitude [07230] of my chariots [07393] [07393] I am come up [05927] to the height [04791] of the mountains [02022], to the sides [03411] of Lebanon [03844], and will cut down [03772] the tall [06967] cedar trees [0730] thereof, and the choice [04004] fir trees [01265] thereof: and I will enter [0935] into the lodgings [04411] of his borders [07093], and into the forest [03293] of his Carmel [03760].
24 I have digged [06979] and drunk [08354] strange [02114] waters [04325], and with the sole [03709] of my feet [06471] have I dried [02717] up all the rivers [02975] of besieged places [04693].
25 Hast thou not heard [08085] long ago [07350] how I have done [06213] it, and of ancient [06924] times [03117] that I have formed [03335] it? now have I brought [0935] it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste [07582] fenced [01219] cities [05892] into ruinous [05327] heaps [01530].
26 Therefore their inhabitants [03427] were of small [07116] power [03027], they were dismayed [02865] and confounded [0954]; they were as the grass [06212] of the field [07704], and as the green [03419] herb [01877], as the grass [02682] on the housetops [01406], and as corn blasted [07711] before [06440] it be grown up [07054].
27 But I know [03045] thy abode [03427], and thy going out [03318], and thy coming in [0935], and thy rage [07264] against me.
28 Because thy rage [07264] against me and thy tumult [07600] is come up [05927] into mine ears [0241], therefore I will put [07760] my hook [02397] in thy nose [0639], and my bridle [04964] in thy lips [08193], and I will turn thee back [07725] by the way [01870] by which thou camest [0935].