2 Kings 19:24
“I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of besieged places.”
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2 Kings 19:24 Context
22Whome hast thou reproched and blasphemed? and against whome hast thou exalted thy voyce, and lift vp thine eyes on high? euen against the Holy One of Israel. 23By thy messengers thou hast reproched the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my charets, I am come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice firre trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forrest of his Carmel. 24I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of besieged places. 25Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times that I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heapes. 26Therefore their Inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded, they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.
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Other Translations for 2 Kings 19:24
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
- King James Version
"I dug {wells} and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt."
- New American Standard Version (1995)
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
- American Standard Version (1901)
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
- Basic English Bible
I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.
- Darby Bible
I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
- Webster's Bible
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.'
- World English Bible
I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
- Youngs Literal Bible
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for 2 Kings 19:24
19:24 Strange waters - Such as were never discovered by others. Dried up - And as I can furnish my army with water digged out of the earth; so I can deprive my enemies of their water, and can dry up their rivers, and that with the sole of my feet; with the march of my vast and numerous army, who will easily do this, either by marching through them, and each carrying away part with them: or by making new channels, and driving the waters of the river into them.