2 Kings 19:17
New International Version
“It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands.

New Living Translation
“It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.

English Standard Version
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands

Berean Standard Bible
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

King James Bible
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

New King James Version
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

New American Standard Bible
It is true, LORD; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

NASB 1995
“Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands

NASB 1977
“Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands

Legacy Standard Bible
Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands

Amplified Bible
It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have devastated the nations and their lands

Christian Standard Bible
LORD, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
LORD, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.

American Standard Version
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Truly, LORD JEHOVAH, the Kings of Assyria have ravaged the nations and their lands

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,

Contemporary English Version
It is true, our LORD, that Assyrian kings have turned nations into deserts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.

English Revised Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have leveled nations.

Good News Translation
We all know, LORD, that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate,

International Standard Version
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated nations and their territories,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Literal Standard Version
Truly, O YHWH, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations and their land,

Majority Standard Bible
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

New American Bible
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands.

NET Bible
It is true, LORD, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

New Revised Standard Version
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

New Heart English Bible
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Webster's Bible Translation
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

World English Bible
Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Young's Literal Translation
'Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Hezekiah's Prayer
16Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. 17Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands. 18They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.…

Cross References
2 Kings 19:16
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

2 Kings 19:18
They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone--the work of human hands.

2 Kings 19:37
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.

Isaiah 10:10
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,


Treasury of Scripture

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

Of a truth.

Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

Isaiah 5:9
In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Jeremiah 26:15
But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

the kings.

2 Kings 16:9
And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

2 Kings 17:6,24
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes…

1 Chronicles 5:26
And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.

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2 Kings 19
1. Hezekiah, in mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them.
6. Isaiah comforts them.
8. Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah.
14. Hezekiah's prayer.
20. Isaiah's prophecy of the destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion.
35. An angel slays the Assyrians.
36. Sennacherib is slain by his own sons.














(17) Of a truth.--It is even as Sennacherib boasteth.

Destroyed.--Rather, laid waste. Perhaps put under the ban--the expression of 2Kings 19:11--should be read.

Their lands.--Heb., their land, referring to each conquered country.

Verse 17. - Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria - i.e. Sennacherib, and his predecessors - the long line of monarchs who have sat on the Assyrian throne for many past ages - have destroyed the nations and their lands; rather, have laid waste, as in the parallel passage of Isaiah (Isaiah 37:18). "Destroyed" is too strong a word. Hezekiah fully admits the boast of the Assyrian monarch, that he and his predecessors have had a wonderful career of success (comp. Isaiah 10:5-14); but he refuses to regard this past success as ensuring success in the future. All is in the hand of God, and will be determined as God pleases. It is not an iron necessity that rules the world, but a personal will, and this well may be affected by prayer, to which (ver. 19) he therefore has recourse.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Truly,
אָמְנָ֖ם (’ā·mə·nām)
Conjunction
Strong's 551: Verily, truly

O LORD,
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

the kings
מַלְכֵ֥י (mal·ḵê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 4428: A king

of Assyria
אַשּׁ֛וּר (’aš·šūr)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 804: Ashshur

have laid waste
הֶחֱרִ֜יבוּ (he·ḥĕ·rî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 2717: To parch, to desolate, destroy, kill

these nations
הַגּוֹיִ֖ם (hag·gō·w·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1471: A foreign nation, a Gentile, a troop of animals, a flight of locusts

and their lands.
אַרְצָֽם׃ (’ar·ṣām)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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