2 Kings 19:24

King James Version

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I dug wellsand drank water in foreign lands.I dried up all the streams of Egyptwith the soles of my feet.’

Hebrew Names Version
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Mitzrayim.

English Standard Version
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'

New Century Version
I have dug wells in foreign countries and drunk water there. By the soles of my feet, I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt."

New English Translation
I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.'

Amplified Bible
"I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of [the Lower Nile of] Egypt."

New American Standard Bible
"I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the soles of my feet I dried up All the streams of Egypt."

World English Bible
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Geneva Bible (1587)
I haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in.

Legacy Standard Bible
I dug wells and drank foreign waters,And with the sole of my feet I dried upAll the rivers of Egypt."

Berean Standard Bible
I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt."

Contemporary English Version
I dried up every stream in the land of Egypt, and I drank water from wells I had dug."

Complete Jewish Bible
I dug [wells] in foreign lands, and I drank the water. The soles of my [soldiers'] feet dried up all the rivers of Egypt."

Darby Translation
I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

Easy-to-Read Version
I dug wells, and drank water from new places. I dried up the rivers of Egypt and walked on the land there."

George Lamsa Translation
I will dig and drink strange waters, and with the hoofs of my horses I will dry up all the great rivers.

Good News Translation
You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.

Lexham English Bible
I dug wells and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps all the canals of Egypt.'

Literal Translation
I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I dried up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
I haue dygged and dronke vp the straunge waters, and with ye soles of my fete haue I dryed vp the See.

American Standard Version
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Bible in Basic English
I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
I haue digged and druncke straunge waters: & with the steppe of my goyng wil I drye al the water pooles that are besieged.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

King James Version (1611)
I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of besieged places.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I have refreshed myself, and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.

English Revised Version
I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and Y kittide doun the forest of Carmele therof; and Y drank alien watris, and Y made drie with the steppis of `the feet of myn `alle watris closid.

Update Bible Version
I have dug and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Webster's Bible Translation
I have digged and drank strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

New King James Version
I have dug and drunk strange water, And with the soles of my feet I have dried up All the brooks of defense."

New Living Translation
I have dug wells in many foreign lands and refreshed myself with their water. With the sole of my foot I stopped up all the rivers of Egypt!'

New Life Bible
I dug wells and drank the water of other lands. I dried up all the rivers of Egypt with the bottom of my feet."

New Revised Standard
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I, have digged, and have drunk foreign waters, - and have dried up, with the soles of my feet, all the streams of besieged places.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have cut down, and I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut up waters.

Revised Standard Version
I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'

Young's Literal Translation
I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

THE MESSAGE
I've dug wells in faraway places and drunk their exotic waters; I've waded and splashed barefoot in the rivers of Egypt."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"I dug wells and drank foreign waters, And with the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of Egypt."

Contextual Overview

²⁰ Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard. ²¹ This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee. ²² Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. ²³ 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. ²⁴ I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. ²⁵ 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. ²⁶ 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 house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. ²⁷ But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. ²⁸ 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. ²⁹ 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.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I have digged: etc. I have conquered strange countries, and marched through the driest places, in which I have digged wells for my army.

with the sole: My infantry have been so numerous, that they alone have been sufficient to dry up all the rivers of besieged places, either by drinking them, or by diverting their course into other channels. Exodus 15:9, 2 Samuel 17:13, 1 Kings 20:10, Daniel 4:30

besieged places: or, fenced places

Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 17:12 - we will light Psalms 12:3 - tongue Isaiah 19:6 - and the Isaiah 37:25 - with the sole

Cross-References

Genesis 19:23
The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.

Genesis 19:24
Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

Genesis 19:28
And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a furnace.

Genesis 19:29
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

Job 18:15
It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.

Isaiah 1:9
Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Isaiah 13:19
And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 20:16
And let that man be as the cities which the Lord overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide;

Jeremiah 49:18
As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the Lord , no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Have digged and drunk ... and dried up - The meaning seems to be - “Mountains do not stop me - I cross them even in my chariots. Deserts do not stop me - I dig wells there, and drink the water. Rivers do not stop me - I pass them as easily as if they were dry land.”

The rivers of besieged places - Rather, “the rivers of Egypt.” The singular form, Mazor (compare the modern Misr and the Assyrian Muzr), is here used instead of the ordinary dual form, Mizraim, perhaps because “Lower Egypt” only is intended. This was so cut up with canals and branches of the Nile, natural and artificial, that it was regarded as impassable for chariots and horses. Sennacherib, however, thought that these many streams would prove no impediments to him; he would advance as fast as if they were “dried up.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Kings 19:24. I have dipped and drunk strange waters — I have conquered strange countries, in which I have digged wells for my army; or, I have gained the wealth of strange countries.

With the sole of my feet — My infantry have been so numerous that they alone have been sufficient to drink up the rivers of the places I have besieged.