King James Version
2 Kings 19:27 in the King James Version says “But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. abode: or, sitting” — study this verse from 2 Kings chapter 19 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. abode: or, sitting”
2 Kings 19:27 · 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?
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
Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
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“thy abode”
H3427properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
“and thy going out”
H3318to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim
“But I know”
H3045to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including o
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“and thy rage”
H7264to quiver (with any violent emotion, especially anger or fear)
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