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2 Kings 19:27

Old Testament Historical ASV (1901)

What does 2 Kings 19:27 say?

The American Standard Version records this verse as: “But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.” Read the surrounding verses and the named sources below before drawing broader conclusions.

The verse

But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
2 Kings 19:27 — American Standard Version

Context — 2 Kings 19

American Standard Version (1901) — public domain. Click any verse for its study page.
24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.
25Hast 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.
26Therefore 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 grain blasted before it is grown up.
27But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.
28Because of thy raging against me, and because thine arrogancy is come up into mine ears, therefore will I 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.
29And this shall be the sign unto thee: Ye shall eat this year that which groweth of itself, 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 fruit thereof.
30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
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What do historical commentaries say?

Barnes' Notes
Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · Notes on the Whole Bible · 19th-century historical commentary
“See 1 Kings 3:7 note. return to 'Top of Page'”
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Wesley's Explanatory Notes
John Wesley (1703–1791) · Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Old Testament notes · 18th-century historical commentary
“I know - Though thou dost not know me, yet I throughly know thee, and all thy designs and actions, all thy secret contrivances in the place of thy abode, in thy own kingdom and court; and the execution of thy designs abroad, what thou intendest in thy going out, and with what farther thoughts thou comest in, or returnest to thy own land. 4 Kings (2 Kings) 19:28”
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Tyndale Open Study Notes
Tyndale House Publishers · Tyndale Open Study Notes · Modern study notes
“19:27-28 I know you well: See Pss 44:21; 94:11. • hook . . . bit: The Assyrian annals mention similar mistreatment of prisoners; the Lord would do to Sennacherib what he and his predecessors had done to those they subjugated.”
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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Cross-reference reference work
“I know: Psa 139:1-11; Jer 23:23, Jer 23:24 abode: or, sitting thy going out: Deu 28:6, Deu 28:19; Psa 121:8; Isa 37:28, Isa 37:29 4 Kings (2 Kings) 19:28”
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