2 Kings 19:11 Cross References - NSB

¹¹ »‘You heard what the kings of Assyria did to all countries. They totally destroyed them. Will you be rescued?

⁵ Then the king of Assyria invaded the land and advanced to Samaria. He besieged the city for three years. ⁶ In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria. He led the Israelites away to Assyria. He stationed them in Halah and Habor on the Gozan River, and in the towns of the Medes. ⁷ The wrath (intense anger) of Jehovah came on Israel because they had done evil against Jehovah their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt from under the yoke of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. They worshipped other gods. ⁸ They lived by the rules of the nations whom Jehovah sent out from before the children of Israel. ⁹ The children of Israel secretly did things that were not right according to Jehovah their God. They built high places for themselves in all their towns, from the watchtower to the walled towns. ¹⁰ They erected pillars of stone and wood on every high hill and under every green tree. ¹¹ They burned their offerings in all the high places, as those nations did whom Jehovah sent away from them. They did evil things, moving Jehovah to anger.

¹⁷ »It is true Jehovah. The kings of Assyria have devastated nations. ¹⁸ »They threw the gods from these countries into fires because these gods are not real gods. They are only wooden and stone statues made by human hands. So the Assyrians have destroyed them.

¹³ »‘You have heard what my ancestors and I have done to other nations. Were the gods of those nations able to defend their land against us? ¹⁴ »‘None of those gods kept their people safe from the kings of Assyria. Do you really think your God can do any better?

⁸ »He boasts: ‘Every one of my commanders is a king! ⁹ »‘Is not Calno like Carchemish? Is not Hamath like Arpad? Is not Samaria like Damascus? ¹⁰ »‘As my hand took hold of the kingdoms of the idols, kingdoms whose carved images were greater then those of Jerusalem and Samaria, ¹¹ »‘As I have done to Samaria and her idols, Shall I not also do to Jerusalem and her idols?’