2 Kings 19:24
Good News Translation
You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.

New Revised Standard Version
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.’

Contemporary English Version
I dried up every stream in the land of Egypt, and I drank water from wells I had dug."

New American Bible
I myself dug wells and drank foreign waters, Drying up all the rivers of Egypt beneath the soles of my feet.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

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I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

I have digged, etc.

with the sole.

Exodus 15:9 The enemy said: I will pursue and overtake, I will divide the spoils, my soul shall have its fill: I will draw my sword, my hand shall slay them.

2 Samuel 17:13 And if he shall enter into any city, all Israel shall cast ropes round about that city, and we will draw it into the river, so that there shall not be found so much as one small stone thereof.

1 Kings 20:10 And the messengers returning brought him word. And he sent again, and said: Such and such things may the gods do to me, and more may they add, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.

Daniel 4:30 The same hour the word was fulfilled upon Nabuchodonosor, and he was driven away from among men, and did eat grass, like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven: till his hairs grew like the feathers of eagles, and his nails like birds' claws.

besieged places.

Context
The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied
23By the hand of thy servants thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said: With the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the height of the mountains, to the top of Libanus, and have cut down its tall cedars, and its choice fir trees. And I have entered into the furthest parts thereof, and the forest of its Carmel. 24I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.25Hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? from the days of old I have formed it, and now I have brought it to effect: that fenced cities of fighting men should be turned to heaps of ruins:…
Cross References
Genesis 26:15
Stopped up at that time all the wells, that the servants of his father, Abraham, had digged, filling them up with earth:

Isaiah 19:6
And the rivers shall fail: the streams of the banks shall be diminished, and be dried up. The reed and the bulrush shall wither away.

2 Kings 19:23
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