2 Kings 19:28

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26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As ^athe grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.

27 ‘But ^aI know your dwelling place,
Your going out and your coming in,
And your rage against Me.

28 Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore ^aI will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
^bBy the way which you came.

29 ‘This shall be a ^asign to you:
You shall eat this year such as grows¹ of itself,
And in the second year what springs from the same;
Also in the third year sow and reap,
Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

30 ^aAnd the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah
Shall again take root downward,
And bear fruit upward.

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Barnes' Notes

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2 Kings 19:28

Thy tumult - Rather, "thy arrogance."

I will put my hook in nose - Rather, "my ring." The sculptures show that the kings of Babylon and Assyria were in the habit of actually passing a ring through the flesh of their more distinguished prisoners, of attaching a thong or a rope to it, and of thus leading them about as with a "bridle." In Assyria the ring was, at least ordinarily, passed through the lower lip; while in Babylonia it appears to have been inserted into the membrane of the nose. Thus Sennacherib would be here threatened with a punishment which he was perhaps in the habit of inflicting.

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