2 Kings 19:23 meaning and explanation
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.
2 Kings 19:23, Berean Standard Bible
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These words come from the LORD's answer to Hezekiah through Isaiah, spoken against Sennacherib, king of Assyria, whose army threatened Jerusalem. The Assyrian king had boasted through his envoys about his chariots and his conquests, but the LORD reframes the boast as taunting not Judah but God himself.
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