2 KINGS 19:23 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“By 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.”
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.' — Sennacherib's boastful claims continue: control of water supplies and subjugation of Egypt through military might. The image of drying up Egypt's streams through footsteps alone represents hyperbolic claim of power and dominance. Isaiah allows Sennacherib's boasts to stand, using them as contrast to the actual source of power that matters: the LORD.
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