| Verse | Translation | Text |
| 2Ki 19:26 | Strong Concordance | 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]. |
| King James | Therefore 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. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| The weakness of the nations exposed to the Assyrian attacks was as much owing to the divine decrees as was the strength of the Assyrians themselves. The grass on the house tops - Compare the marginal reference. The vegetation on the flat roofs of Oriental houses is the first to spring up and the first to fade away. |