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the Week of Proper 16 / Ordinary 21
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Wycliffe Bible

2 Kings 19:16

Bowe thin eere, and here; opyn thin iyen, Lord, and se; and here alle the wordis of Senacherib, which sente, that he schulde dispise `to vs `God lyuynge.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Prayer;   Religion;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sennacherib;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affliction, Prayer under;   Assyria;   Jerusalem;   Reviling and Reproaching;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Arpad;   Isaiah;   War;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Assyria;   Hezekiah;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mediator, Mediation;   Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ear;   Kings, 1 and 2;   Reproach;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Hezekiah;   Isaiah, Book of;   Israel;   Philistines;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Living (2);   Persecution;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Sennacherib ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hezekiah;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Interesting facts about the bible;   Tirhakah;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ear;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Urim and Thummim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Kingdom of Judah;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Intercession;   Omnipotence;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Listen closely, Lord, and hear; open your eyes, Lord, and see. Hear the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.
Hebrew Names Version
Incline your ear, LORD, and hear; open your eyes, LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sancheriv, with which he has sent him to defy the living God.
King James Version
Lord , bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord , thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
English Standard Version
Incline your ear, O Lord , and hear; open your eyes, O Lord , and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
New Century Version
Hear, Lord , and listen. Open your eyes, Lord , and see. Listen to the words Sennacherib has said to insult the living God.
New English Translation
Pay attention, Lord , and hear! Open your eyes, Lord , and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!
Amplified Bible
"O LORD, bend down Your ear and hear; LORD, open Your eyes and see; hear the [taunting] words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to taunt and defy the living God.
New American Standard Bible
"Incline Your ear, LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, LORD, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to taunt the living God.
World English Bible
Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: Lorde open thine eyes and behold, and heare the wordes of Saneherib, who hath sent to blaspheme the liuing God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Incline Your ear, O Yahweh, and hear; open Your eyes, O Yahweh, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to reproach the living God.
Berean Standard Bible
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.
Contemporary English Version
But just look how Sennacherib has insulted you, the living God.
Complete Jewish Bible
Turn your ear, Adonai , and hear! Open your eyes, Adonai , and see! Hear the words that Sancheriv sent to taunt the living God.
Darby Translation
Incline thine ear, Jehovah, and hear; open, Jehovah, thine eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Lord , please listen to me. Lord , open your eyes and look at this message. Hear the words that Sennacherib sent to insult the living God.
George Lamsa Translation
O LORD, incline thine ear and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent messages to reproach the living God.
Good News Translation
Now, Lord , look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God.
Lexham English Bible
Incline your ears and hear; open, O Yahweh, your eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib which he has sent to insult the living God.
Literal Translation
O Jehovah, incline Your ear and hear; O Jehovah, open Your eyes and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib with which he has sent him to reproach the living God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Enclyne thine eare O LORDE, and heare: open thine eyes, and beholde, and heare the wordes of Sennacherib, which hath sent hither to blaspheme the lyuynge God.
American Standard Version
Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to defy the living God.
Bible in Basic English
Let your ear be turned to us, O Lord, and let your eyes be open, O Lord, and see; take note of all the words of Sennacherib who has sent men to say evil against the living God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Lorde bowe downe thyne eare, and heare: Open Lorde thyne eyes, [I besech thee,] and see: and heare the wordes of Sennacherib whiche hath sent [this man] to rayle on the lyuing God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Incline Thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open Thine eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to taunt the living God.
King James Version (1611)
Lord, bow downe thine eare, and heare: open, Lord, thine eyes; and see: and heare the words of Sennacherib which hath sent him to reproch the liuing God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
English Revised Version
Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to reproach the living God.
Update Bible Version
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.
Webster's Bible Translation
LORD, bow down thy ear, and hear: open, LORD, thy eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent him to reproach the living God.
New King James Version
Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
New Living Translation
Bend down, O Lord , and listen! Open your eyes, O Lord , and see! Listen to Sennacherib's words of defiance against the living God.
New Life Bible
Turn Your ear, O Lord, and hear. Open Your eyes, O Lord, and see. Listen to the words Sennacherib has spoken against the living God.
New Revised Standard
Incline your ear, O Lord , and hear; open your eyes, O Lord , and see; hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Bow down, O Yahweh, thine ear, and hear, Open, O Yahweh, thine eyes, and see, - yea hear thou the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent - To reproach a Living God!
Douay-Rheims Bible
Incline thy ear, and hear: open, O Lord, thy eyes and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to upbraid unto us the living God.
Revised Standard Version
Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennach'erib, which he has sent to mock the living God.
Young's Literal Translation
Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, and hear; open, O Jehovah, Thine eyes, and see; and hear Thou the words of Sennacherib with which he hath sent him to reproach the living God.
THE MESSAGE
Open your ears, God , and listen, open your eyes and look. Look at this letter Sennacherib has sent, a brazen insult to the living God!
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

Contextual Overview

8 Therfor Rabsaces turnede ayen, and foond the kyng of Assiriens fiytynge ayens Lobna; for he hadde herd, that the kyng hadde go awei fro Lachis. 9 And whanne he hadde herd of Theracha, kyng of Ethiope, `men seyynge, Lo! he yede out, that he fiyte ayens thee; that he schulde go ayens `that kyng, he sente messangeris to Ezechie, 10 and seide, Seie ye these thingis to Ezechie, kyng of Juda, Thi Lord God, in whom thou hast trist, disseyue not thee, nether seie thou, Jerusalem schal not be `bitakun in to the hondis of the kyng of Assiriens; 11 for thou thi silf herdist what thingis the kyngis of Assiriens diden in alle londis, hou thei wastiden tho; whether therfor thou aloone maist be delyuered? 12 Whether the goddis of hethene men delyueriden alle men whiche my fadris distrieden, that is, Gozam, and Aran, and Reseph, and the sones of Eden, that weren in Thelassar? 13 Where is the kyng of Emath, and the kyng of Arphat? and the kyng of the cytee of Sepharuaym, of Ana, and of Aua? 14 Therfor whanne Ezechie hadde take the lettris fro the hond of messangeris, and hadde red tho, he stiede in to the hows of the Lord, and spredde abrood tho bifor the Lord; 15 and preiede in his siyt, and seide, Lord God of Israel, that sittist on cherubym, thou art God aloone of alle kyngis of erthe; thou madist heuene and erthe. 16 Bowe thin eere, and here; opyn thin iyen, Lord, and se; and here alle the wordis of Senacherib, which sente, that he schulde dispise `to vs `God lyuynge. 17 Verili, Lord, the kynges of Assiriens distrieden hethene men, and the londis of alle men,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

bow down: Psalms 31:2, Isaiah 37:17

open: 1 Kings 8:29, 2 Chronicles 6:40, Daniel 9:18

which hath sent: 2 Kings 19:4, Psalms 79:12, Isaiah 37:4, Isaiah 37:17, Hebrews 11:26

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:20 - thine eyes Isaiah 16:12 - but Jeremiah 18:19 - hearken Acts 14:15 - the living Hebrews 9:14 - the living

Cross-References

Genesis 19:4
Forsothe bifore that thei yeden to sleepe, men of the citee compassiden his hows, fro a child `til to an eld man, al the puple togidre;
Genesis 19:5
and thei clepiden Loth, and seiden to him, Where ben the men that entriden to thee to nyyt? brynge hem out hidur, that we `knowe hem.
Genesis 19:8
Y haue twey douytris, that knewen not yit man; Y schal lede out hem to you, and mys vse ye hem as it plesith you, so that ye doon noon yuel to these men, for thei entriden vndur the schadewe of my roof.
Genesis 19:10
the men puttiden hoond, and ledden in Loth to hem, and thei closiden the dore.
Genesis 19:15
And whanne the morewtid was, the aungels constreyneden hym, and seiden, Rise thou, and take thi wijf, and thi twey douytris whiche thou hast, lest also thou perische to gidere in the synne of the citee.
Genesis 19:16
While he dissymelide, thei token his hond, and the hond of his wijf, and of his twey doutris; for the Lord sparide hym.
Genesis 19:18
And Loth seide to hem, My lord, Y biseche,
Genesis 19:19
for thi seruaunt hath founde grace bifore thee, and thou hast magnyfied thi grace and mercy, which thou hast do with me, that thou schuldist saue my lijf; Y may not be saued in the hil, lest perauenture yuel take me, and Y die;
Genesis 19:35
And thei yauen to her fadir also in that nyyt to drynke wyn, and the lesse douytir entride, and slepte with him; and sotheli he feelide not thanne whanne sche lay doun, nether whanne sche roos.
Genesis 19:36
Therfor the twei douytris of Loth conseyuede of hir fadir.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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