2 Kings 19:17

Updated Bible Version

Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.

Hebrew Names Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Ashshur have laid waste the nations and their lands,

King James Version
Of a truth, Lord , the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

English Standard Version
Truly, O Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands

New Century Version
It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed these countries and their lands.

New English Translation
It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

Amplified Bible
"It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have devastated the nations and their lands

New American Standard Bible
"It is true, LORD; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

World English Bible
Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Trueth it is, Lord, that the Kings of Asshur haue destroyed the nations and their landes,

Legacy Standard Bible
Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands

Berean Standard Bible
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands.

Contemporary English Version
It is true, our Lord , that Assyrian kings have turned nations into deserts.

Complete Jewish Bible
It is true, Adonai , that the kings of Ashur have laid waste the nations and their lands

Darby Translation
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Easy-to-Read Version
It is true, Lord . The kings of Assyria did destroy all those nations.

George Lamsa Translation
Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

Good News Translation
We all know, Lord , that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate,

Lexham English Bible
Truly, O Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have utterly destroyed the nations and their land.

Literal Translation
Truly, O Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations, and their lands;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
It is true (O LORDE) that the kynges of Assiria haue destroyed the Heythen and their londe with the swerde,

American Standard Version
Of a truth, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Bible in Basic English
Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste the nations and their lands,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Of a trueth Lorde, the kinges of Assyria haue destroyed nations and their landes,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

King James Version (1611)
Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue destroyed the nations and their lands,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,

English Revised Version
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Verili, Lord, the kynges of Assiriens distrieden hethene men, and the londis of alle men,

Webster's Bible Translation
Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

New King James Version
Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

New Living Translation
"It is true, Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all these nations.

New Life Bible
O Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.

New Revised Standard
Truly, O Lord , the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Of a truth, O Yahweh, - the kings of Assyria have devoted to destruction the nations and their lands;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of a truth, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have destroyed nations, and the lands of them all.

Revised Standard Version
Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

Young's Literal Translation
`Truly, O Jehovah, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations, and their land,

THE MESSAGE
The facts are true, O God : The kings of Assyria have laid waste countries and kingdoms.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands

Contextual Overview

⁸ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. ⁹ And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Look, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰ Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ¹¹ Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them completely: and shall you be delivered? ¹² Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden that were in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? ¹⁴ And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, O Yahweh, the God of Israel, that sits [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Incline your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God. ¹⁷ Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Of a truth: Job 9:2, Isaiah 5:9, Jeremiah 26:15, Daniel 2:47, Matthew 14:33, Luke 22:59, Acts 4:27, 1 Corinthians 14:25

the kings: 2 Kings 16:9, 2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:24, 1 Chronicles 5:26, Isaiah 7:17, Isaiah 7:18, Isaiah 10:9-11

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:33 - Hath any 2 Kings 18:35 - Who are 2 Kings 19:11 - General 2 Chronicles 32:4 - kings 2 Chronicles 32:13 - I and my Isaiah 10:10 - the kingdoms Isaiah 36:18 - Hath Daniel 3:1 - made

Cross-References

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

Genesis 18:22
And the men turned from there, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before Yahweh.

Genesis 19:13
for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Yahweh: and Yahweh has sent us to destroy it.

Genesis 19:14
And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Get up, go out of this place; for Yahweh will destroy the city. But he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

Genesis 19:15
And when the morning arose, the angels then hurried Lot, saying, Arise, take your wife, and your two daughters that are here, or else you will be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Genesis 19:16
But he lingered; and the men laid hold on his hand, and on the hand of his wife, and on the hand of his two daughters, Yahweh being merciful to him; and they brought him forth, and set him outside the city.

Genesis 19:18
And Lot said to them, Oh, not so, my lord:

Genesis 19:22
Hurry, escape there; for I can't do anything until you have come there. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

Genesis 19:26
But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31
And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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