KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
2 Kings 19:24–25
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2 Kings 19:24
24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
24I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of ‖besieged places.
- Or, fenced
2 Kings 19:25
25Hast 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.
25‖Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times that I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heapes.
- Or, hast thou not heard how I haue made it long agoe, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laide waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heapes?
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DEFINED WORDS
2 Kings 19:24
Dug; opened, excavated, or turned up the earth.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Having swallowed liquid; or intoxicated and impaired by strong drink.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Foreign; belonging to another country. Wonderful; causing surprise; exciting curiosity.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
The underside of the foot.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Made or became free from moisture or sap.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Surrounded or beset with hostile troops.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
Locations, positions, rooms, occasions, offices, or passages, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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2 Kings 19:25
Have: possess, hold, receive, or experience; also used as an auxiliary verb.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Before the present time; in time past.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Performed; executed; finished; a word by which agreement to a proposal is expressed.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Very old; as a noun, an elder or ruler.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
To go by, through, over, or beyond; to happen, cease, or be transferred.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Place or set down; also rested or remained in a recumbent position, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Loss, destruction, desolation, or useless expenditure; also to consume, ruin, squander, or grow weak.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Inclosed with a fence; guarded; fortified.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Ready to fall.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604
Piles or masses; as a verb, gathers or piles up.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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From verse 24
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Open the full verse study10And Ben-hadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me, and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people that follow me.
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Open the full verse study13Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.
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Open the full verse study30The king spake, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honour of my majesty?
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Open the full verse study9The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.
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Open the full verse study6And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
From verse 25
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Open the full verse study7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.
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Open the full verse study5¶ O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
6I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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Open the full verse study26Hast 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 defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
27Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study10Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
11Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.
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Open the full verse study27For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
28For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.
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Open the full verse study15Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or as if the staff should lift up itself, as if it were no wood.
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Open the full verse study16Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
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Open the full verse study11The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
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Open the full verse study10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.
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