Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
digged, and drunk water—In II Kings 19:24, it is "strange waters." I have marched into foreign lands where I had to dig wells for the supply of my armies; even the natural destitution of water there did not impede my march.
rivers of . . . besieged places—rather, "the streams (artificial canals from the Nile) of Egypt." "With the sole of my foot," expresses that as soon as his vast armies marched into a region, the streams were drunk up by them; or rather, that the rivers proved no obstruction to the onward march of his armies. So Isaiah 19:4-6, referring to Egypt, "the river—brooks of defense—shall be dried up." HORSLEY, translates the Hebrew for "besieged places," "rocks."
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Isaiah 37:25:
Isaiah 8:8
Obadiah 1:18
Nahum 1:9
Habakkuk 1:16
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