King James Version
“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. long: or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps?”
2 Kings 19:25 · KJV
By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. By: Heb. By the hand of tall: Heb. tallness, etc of his Carmel: or, and his fruitful field
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. besieged: or, fenced
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. long: or, how I have made it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laid waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heaps?
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. of small: Heb. short of hand
But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. abode: or, sitting
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“Hast thou not heard”
H8085to hear intelligently (often with implication of attention, obedience, etc.; causatively, to tell, etc.)
“long ago”
H7350remote, literally or figuratively, of place or time; specifically, precious; often used adverbially (with preposition)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“times”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“it and of ancient”
H6924the front, of place (absolutely, the fore part, relatively the east) or time (antiquity); often used adverbially (before, anciently, eastward)
“that I have formed”
H3335to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e., form a resolution)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“it to pass that thou shouldest be to lay waste”
H7582to rush; by implication, to desolate
“heaps”
H1530something rolled, i.e., a heap of stone or dung (plural ruins), by analogy, a spring of water (plural waves)
“into ruinous”
H5327properly, to go forth, i.e., (by implication) to be expelled, and (consequently) desolate; causatively, to lay waste; also (specifically), to quarrel
“cities”
H5892a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
“fenced”
H1219to gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e., inaccessible by height or fortification)
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