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Long ago I ordained it. In days of old I planned it; now I have brought it to pass, that you have turned fortified cities into piles of stone. <a href="/nlt/2_kings/19.htm">New Living Translation</a> “But have you not heard? I decided this long ago. Long ago I planned it, and now I am making it happen. I planned for you to crush fortified cities into heaps of rubble. <a href="/esv/2_kings/19.htm">English Standard Version</a> “Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins, <a href="/bsb/2_kings/19.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/kjv/2_kings/19.htm">King James Bible</a> Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/nkjv/2_kings/19.htm">New King James Version</a> ‘Did you not hear long ago How I made it, From ancient times that I formed it? Now I have brought it to pass, That you should be For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins. <a href="/nasb_/2_kings/19.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> ‘Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it about, That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps. <a href="/nasb/2_kings/19.htm">NASB 1995</a> &#8216Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/nasb77/2_kings/19.htm">NASB 1977 </a> ‘Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/lsb/2_kings/19.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> ‘Have you not heard? Long ago I did it; From days of old I formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you should devastate fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/amp/2_kings/19.htm">Amplified Bible</a> ‘Have you not heard [asks the God of Israel]? Long ago I did it; From ancient times I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, That you [king of Assyria] should [be My instrument to] turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/csb/2_kings/19.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/hcsb/2_kings/19.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/asv/2_kings/19.htm">American Standard Version</a> Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/cev/2_kings/19.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Sennacherib, now listen to me, the Lord. I planned all this long ago. And you don't even realize that I alone am the one who decided that you would do these things. I let you make ruins of fortified cities. <a href="/erv/2_kings/19.htm">English Revised Version</a> Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/gwt/2_kings/19.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> " 'Haven't you heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the distant past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/gnt/2_kings/19.htm">Good News Translation</a> "Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/isv/2_kings/19.htm">International Standard Version</a> Didn't you hear? I determined it years ago! I planned this from ancient times, and now I've brought it to pass, to turn fortified cities into piles of ruins <a href="/msb/2_kings/19.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/net/2_kings/19.htm">NET Bible</a> Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins. <a href="/nheb/2_kings/19.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Haven't you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <a href="/wbt/2_kings/19.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldst be to lay waste fortified cities in ruinous heaps. <a href="/web/2_kings/19.htm">World English Bible</a> Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/2_kings/19.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Have you not heard from afar [that] I made it, "" From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, "" And it becomes a desolation, "" Ruinous heaps [are] fortified cities, <a href="/ylt/2_kings/19.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Hast thou not heard from afar, it I made, From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, And it becometh a desolation, Ruinous heaps are fenced cities, <a href="/slt/2_kings/19.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Didst thou not hear from remoteness I made it from days before and I formed it? and now I brought it in, and thou wilt be to set fortified cities for desolate ruins.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/2_kings/19.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Hast 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 ruin: <a href="/cpdv/2_kings/19.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins. <a href="/nabre/2_kings/19.htm">New American Bible</a> “Have you not heard? A long time ago I prepared it, from days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it about: You are here to reduce fortified cities to heaps of ruins, <a href="/nrsvce/2_kings/19.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> “Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should make fortified cities crash into heaps of ruins,<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/2_kings/19.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of the days of old how I prepared it? And now I have brought it to pass, that you lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps; <a href="/hpbt/2_kings/19.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Have you not heard that from a distance I have made it, and from the first days I have prepared it, and now I have brought it, that you may be for a wilderness and a desolation as a fortress city?<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/2_kings/19.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Hast thou not heard? Long ago I made it, In ancient times I fashioned it; Now have I brought it to pass, Yea, it is done; that fortified cities Should be laid waste into ruinous heaps. <a href="/sep/2_kings/19.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities. <a href="/parallel/2_kings/19-25.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/FiLs3w_mMFQ?start=6896" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/2_kings/19.htm">The Fall of Sennacherib Prophesied</a> …24I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.” 25<a href="/hebrew/3808.htm" title="3808: hă·lō- (Adv-NegPrt) -- Not. Or lowi; or loh; a primitive particle; not; by implication, no; often used with other particles.">Have you not</a> <a href="/hebrew/8085.htm" title="8085: šā·ma‘·tā (V-Qal-Perf-2ms) -- To hear. A primitive root; to hear intelligently.">heard?</a> <a href="/hebrew/7350.htm" title="7350: lə·mê·rā·ḥō·wq (Prep-l, Prep-m:: Adj-ms) -- Or rachoq; from rachaq; remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious; often used adverbially.">Long ago</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ‘ā·śî·ṯî (V-Qal-Perf-1cs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">I ordained</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’ō·ṯāh (DirObjM:: 3fs) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self.">it;</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: lə·mî·mê (Prep-l, Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">in days</a> <a href="/hebrew/6924.htm" title="6924: qe·ḏem (N-ms) -- The front, of place, time. Or qedmah; from qadam; the front, of place or time; often used adverbially.">of old</a> <a href="/hebrew/3335.htm" title="3335: wî·ṣar·tî·hā (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjPerf-1cs:: 3fs) -- Probably identical with yatsar;); to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e. Form a resolution).">I planned it.</a> <a href="/hebrew/6258.htm" title="6258: ‘at·tāh (Adv) -- Now. From eth; at this time, whether adverb, conjunction or expletive.">Now I have</a> <a href="/hebrew/935.htm" title="935: hă·ḇê·ṯî·hā (V-Hifil-Perf-1cs:: 3fs) -- To come in, come, go in, go. A primitive root; to go or come.">brought it to pass,</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: ū·ṯə·hî (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConjImperf.Jus-2ms) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">that you should crush</a> <a href="/hebrew/7582.htm" title="7582: lah·šō·wṯ (Prep-l:: V-Hifil-Inf) -- To make a din or crash, crash into ruins. A primitive root; to rush; by implication, to desolate."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1219.htm" title="1219: bə·ṣu·rō·wṯ (Adj-fp) -- To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose. A primitive root; to clip off; specifically to gather grapes; also to be isolated.">fortified</a> <a href="/hebrew/5892.htm" title="5892: ‘ā·rîm (N-fp) -- Excitement. Or par; or ayar; from uwr a city in the widest sense.">cities</a> <a href="/hebrew/1530.htm" title="1530: gal·lîm (N-mp) -- A heap, wave, billow. From galal; something rolled, i.e. A heap of stone or dung, by analogy, a spring of water.">into piles</a> <a href="/hebrew/5327.htm" title="5327: niṣ·ṣîm (V-Nifal-Prtcpl-mp) -- A primitive root; properly, to go forth, i.e. to be expelled, and desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also, to quarrel.">of rubble.</a> 26Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, are dismayed and ashamed. They are like plants in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the rooftops, scorched before it is grown.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm">Isaiah 37:26</a> Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. <a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5-15</a> Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger; the staff in their hands is My wrath. / I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets. / But this is not his intention; this is not his plan. For it is in his heart to destroy and cut off many nations. ... <a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10</a> I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and all My good pleasure I will accomplish.’ <a href="/isaiah/14-24.htm">Isaiah 14:24-27</a> The LORD of Hosts has sworn: “Surely, as I have planned, so will it be; as I have purposed, so will it stand. / I will break Assyria in My land; I will trample him on My mountain. His yoke will be taken off My people, and his burden removed from their shoulders.” / This is the plan devised for the whole earth, and this is the hand stretched out over all the nations. ... <a href="/isaiah/45-7.htm">Isaiah 45:7</a> I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things. <a href="/isaiah/41-4.htm">Isaiah 41:4</a> Who has performed this and carried it out, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the LORD—the first and the last—I am He.” <a href="/isaiah/44-7.htm">Isaiah 44:7-8</a> Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place. / Do not tremble or fear. Have I not told you and declared it long ago? You are My witnesses! Is there any God but Me? There is no other Rock; I know not one.” <a href="/isaiah/48-3.htm">Isaiah 48:3-5</a> I foretold the former things long ago; they came out of My mouth and I proclaimed them. Suddenly I acted, and they came to pass. / For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze. / Therefore I declared it to you long ago; I announced it before it came to pass, so that you could not claim, ‘My idol has done this; my carved image and molten god has ordained it.’ <a href="/job/12-23.htm">Job 12:23</a> He makes nations great and destroys them; He enlarges nations, then disperses them. <a href="/psalms/33-10.htm">Psalm 33:10-11</a> The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations; He thwarts the devices of the peoples. / The counsel of the LORD stands forever, the purposes of His heart to all generations. <a href="/psalms/46-8.htm">Psalm 46:8-10</a> Come, see the works of the LORD, who brings devastation upon the earth. / He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire. / “Be still and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted over the earth.” <a href="/psalms/75-6.htm">Psalm 75:6-7</a> For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert, / but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another. <a href="/psalms/135-6.htm">Psalm 135:6</a> The LORD does all that pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and in all their depths. <a href="/proverbs/21-1.htm">Proverbs 21:1</a> The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases. <a href="/daniel/4-35.htm">Daniel 4:35</a> All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. There is no one who can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’”</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Have you not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that you should be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.Hast thou not, etc.<a href="/psalms/33-11.htm">Psalm 33:11</a> The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.<a href="/psalms/76-10.htm">Psalm 76:10</a> Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.<a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5,6,15</a> O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/2_samuel/20-18.htm">Ago</a> <a href="/1_samuel/27-8.htm">Ancient</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-21.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-20.htm">Design</a> <a href="/1_kings/20-42.htm">Determined</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-20.htm">Ears</a> <a href="/1_kings/22-22.htm">Effect</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-18.htm">Fashioned</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">Fenced</a> <a href="/1_kings/7-33.htm">Formed</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">Fortified</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Heaps</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-20.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/2_kings/16-5.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Masses</a> <a href="/1_kings/12-33.htm">Ordained</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-5.htm">Past</a> <a href="/2_kings/10-8.htm">Piles</a> <a href="/2_samuel/21-5.htm">Planned</a> <a href="/2_samuel/21-21.htm">Purposing</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm">Ruinous</a> <a href="/1_kings/18-30.htm">Ruins</a> <a href="/2_kings/14-10.htm">Shouldest</a> <a href="/2_kings/14-10.htm">Shouldst</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-18.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/2_kings/14-5.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/2_kings/13-25.htm">Times</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/2_kings/18-24.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-16.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/2_kings/4-10.htm">Walls</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-17.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/ezra/5-11.htm">Ago</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/4-22.htm">Ancient</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-14.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-5.htm">Cities</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-23.htm">Design</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/2-1.htm">Determined</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm">Ears</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-22.htm">Effect</a> <a href="/job/10-8.htm">Fashioned</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/8-5.htm">Fenced</a> <a href="/job/10-8.htm">Formed</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/8-5.htm">Fortified</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/31-6.htm">Heaps</a> <a href="/2_kings/20-5.htm">Heard</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/7-23.htm">Lay</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/31-7.htm">Masses</a> <a href="/2_kings/23-5.htm">Ordained</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/9-20.htm">Past</a> <a href="/job/27-16.htm">Piles</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/7-11.htm">Planned</a> <a href="/job/24-14.htm">Purposing</a> <a href="/job/30-24.htm">Ruinous</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/34-6.htm">Ruins</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/17-7.htm">Shouldest</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/17-7.htm">Shouldst</a> <a href="/2_kings/22-6.htm">Stone</a> <a href="/2_kings/24-16.htm">Strong</a> <a href="/2_kings/21-6.htm">Times</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/2-22.htm">Towns</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/2_kings/20-2.htm">Turned</a> <a href="/2_kings/25-4.htm">Walls</a> <a href="/1_chronicles/5-9.htm">Waste</a><div class="vheading2">2 Kings 19</div>1. <a href="/2_kings/19-1.htm">Hezekiah, in mourning, sends to Isaiah to pray for them.</a> 6. <a href="/2_kings/19-6.htm">Isaiah comforts them.</a> 8. <a href="/2_kings/19-8.htm">Sennacherib, going to encounter Tirhakah, sends a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah.</a> 14. <a href="/2_kings/19-14.htm">Hezekiah's prayer.</a> 20. <a href="/2_kings/19-20.htm">Isaiah's prophecy of the destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion.</a> 35. <a href="/2_kings/19-35.htm">An angel slays the Assyrians.</a> 36. <a href="/2_kings/19-36.htm">Sennacherib is slain by his own sons.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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This rhetorical question implies that the message being delivered is something that should already be known. It suggests that the audience, likely the Assyrian king Sennacherib, is being reminded of God's sovereignty and past actions. This phrase emphasizes the importance of listening to God's word and recognizing His authority, as seen throughout the Old Testament.Long ago I ordained it; This phrase highlights God's eternal plan and foreknowledge. It reflects the biblical theme that God is in control of history and events, as seen in <a href="/isaiah/46-10.htm">Isaiah 46:10</a>, where God declares the end from the beginning. The use of "ordained" suggests a divine decree, indicating that what is happening is part of God's predetermined plan.in days of old I planned it. This reinforces the idea of God's timeless sovereignty. The reference to "days of old" connects to the ancient promises and covenants God made with Israel, such as those with Abraham, Moses, and David. It underscores the continuity of God's plan throughout history, as seen in passages like <a href="/psalms/33-11.htm">Psalm 33:11</a>.Now I have brought it to pass, This indicates the fulfillment of God's plan in the present moment. It shows that God's purposes are not just theoretical but are actively being realized in history. This aligns with the biblical narrative of God intervening in human affairs, as seen in the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan.that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble. This phrase describes the specific action God has allowed the Assyrians to undertake as part of His judgment. The imagery of crushing fortified cities reflects the historical reality of Assyrian military campaigns, known for their brutality and effectiveness. It also serves as a reminder of God's power to use even pagan nations to accomplish His purposes, as seen in <a href="/habakkuk/1-6.htm">Habakkuk 1:6-11</a>. This can be seen as a type of Christ in that, just as God used Assyria to fulfill His purposes, He later uses Christ to bring about redemption and the ultimate fulfillment of His plan.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/h/hezekiah.htm">Hezekiah</a> The King of Judah during the time of the Assyrian threat. He is known for his faithfulness to God and his efforts to reform the religious practices of Judah. 2. <a href="/topical/s/sennacherib.htm">Sennacherib</a> The King of Assyria who invaded Judah and laid siege to Jerusalem. He is a central figure in this account as the antagonist who challenges the power of God. 3. <a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a> The prophet who delivers God's message to Hezekiah, providing assurance of divine intervention against the Assyrian threat. 4. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The capital city of Judah, which is under threat from the Assyrian army. It represents the spiritual and political heart of the Jewish people. 5. <a href="/topical/a/assyrian_invasion.htm">Assyrian Invasion</a> The historical event where the Assyrian army, led by Sennacherib, invades Judah, threatening its cities and people.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a> Recognize that God is in control of history and events. He ordains and plans long before they come to pass. <a href="/topical/d/divine_purpose.htm">Divine Purpose</a> Understand that God has a purpose for everything, even the actions of those who oppose Him. Trust in His ultimate plan. <a href="/topical/f/faith_in_adversity.htm">Faith in Adversity</a> Like Hezekiah, we should turn to God in times of trouble, trusting in His power to deliver and protect. <a href="/topical/p/prophetic_assurance.htm">Prophetic Assurance</a> Value the role of God's word through prophets and scripture as a source of comfort and guidance in challenging times. <a href="/topical/h/historical_fulfillment.htm">Historical Fulfillment</a> Reflect on how God's plans have been fulfilled throughout history, strengthening our faith in His promises for the future.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_2_kings_19.htm">Top 10 Lessons from 2 Kings 19</a> <a href="/q/what_does_christianization_mean.htm">What are ministering spirits?</a> <a href="/q/what_does_the_bible_say_on_mars.htm">What does the Bible say about colonizing Mars?</a> <a href="/q/how_reconcile_psalm_84_with_temple's_fall.htm">How do we reconcile the psalm's praise of God's dwelling place (Psalm 84:1, 4) with later events that saw the Temple destroyed?</a> <a href="/q/how_do_skeptics_view_micah_3_12's_timing.htm">In Micah 3:12, the destruction of Jerusalem is foretold--how do skeptics explain discrepancies with other accounts or timelines of Jerusalem's fall?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/2_kings/19.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(25) Hast thou not heard . . .?--Hast thou not heard? In the far past it I made; in the days of yore did I fashion it; now have I brought it to pass. The "it"--the thing long since foreordained by Jehovah--is defined by the words: "that thou shouldest be to lay waste," &c. (Comp. <a href="/isaiah/22-11.htm" title="You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked to the maker thereof, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago.">Isaiah 22:11</a>; <a href="/context/isaiah/46-10.htm" title="Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:">Isaiah 46:10-11</a>; <a href="/context/isaiah/10-5.htm" title="O Assyrian, the rod of my anger, and the staff in their hand is my indignation.">Isaiah 10:5-15</a>.)<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/2_kings/19.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 25. - Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it? The strain suddenly changes - the person of the speaker is altered. It is no longer Sennacherib who reveals the thoughts of his own heart, but Jehovah who addresses the proud monarch. "Hast thou not heard, how from long ago I have acted thus? Hast thou never been taught that revolutions, conquests, the rise and fall of nations, are God's doing, decreed by him long, long age - ay, from the creation of the world? Art thou not aware that this is so, either from tradition, or by listening to the voice of reason within thine own heart?" It is implied that such knowledge ought to he in the possession of every man. And of ancient times that I have formed it? A rhetorical repetition of the previous question, needful for the balance of clauses, in which Hebrew poetry delights, but adding nothing to the sense. Now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. The idea was very familiar to Isaiah and his contemporaries. Years before, when Assyria first became threatening, Isaiah, speaking in the person of Jehovah, had exclaimed, "O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets" (<a href="/isaiah/10-5.htm">Isaiah 10:5, 6</a>). But the heathen kings whom God made his instruments to chasten sinful nations imagined that they conquered and destroyed and laid waste by their own strength (see <a href="/isaiah/10-7.htm">Isaiah 10:7-14</a>). <a href="/commentaries/2_kings/19-25.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>Have you not הֲלֹֽא־ (hă·lō-) Adverb - Negative particle <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3808.htm">Strong's 3808: </a> Not, no heard? שָׁמַ֤עְתָּ (šā·ma‘·tā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_8085.htm">Strong's 8085: </a> To hear intelligently Long ago לְמֵֽרָחוֹק֙ (lə·mê·rā·ḥō·wq) Preposition-l, Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7350.htm">Strong's 7350: </a> Remote, of place, time, precious I ordained עָשִׂ֔יתִי (‘ā·śî·ṯî) Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> To do, make it; אֹתָ֣הּ (’ō·ṯāh) Direct object marker | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_853.htm">Strong's 853: </a> Untranslatable mark of the accusative case in days לְמִ֥ימֵי (lə·mî·mê) Preposition-l, Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of old קֶ֖דֶם (qe·ḏem) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6924.htm">Strong's 6924: </a> The front, of place, time I planned it. וִֽיצַרְתִּ֑יהָ (wî·ṣar·tî·hā) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3335.htm">Strong's 3335: </a> To mould into a, form, as a, potter, to determine Now I have עַתָּ֣ה (‘at·tāh) Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6258.htm">Strong's 6258: </a> At this time brought it to pass, הֲבֵיאתִ֗יהָ (hă·ḇê·ṯî·hā) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_935.htm">Strong's 935: </a> To come in, come, go in, go that you should crush וּתְהִ֗י (ū·ṯə·hî) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive imperfect Jussive - second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be fortified בְּצֻרֽוֹת׃ (bə·ṣu·rō·wṯ) Adjective - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1219.htm">Strong's 1219: </a> To cut off, make inaccessible, enclose cities עָרִ֥ים (‘ā·rîm) Noun - feminine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5892.htm">Strong's 5892: </a> Excitement into piles גַּלִּ֥ים (gal·lîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1530.htm">Strong's 1530: </a> Something rolled, a heap of stone, dung, a spring of water of rubble. נִצִּ֖ים (niṣ·ṣîm) Verb - Nifal - Participle - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5327.htm">Strong's 5327: </a> To go forth, to be expelled, desolate, to lay waste, to quarrel <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/2_kings/19-25.htm">2 Kings 19:25 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/2_kings/19-25.htm">OT History: 2 Kings 19:25 Haven't you heard how I have done (2Ki iiKi ii ki 2 kg 2kg) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/2_kings/19-24.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="2 Kings 19:24"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="2 Kings 19:24" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="2 Kings 19:26"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="2 Kings 19:26" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>