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NETI dug wells and drank ⇔ water in foreign lands. ⇔ With the soles of my feet I dried up ⇔ all the rivers of Egypt.’
LSVI have dug, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.
FBVI have dug wells and drunk water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers in Egypt.’ ”
T4TWe have dug wells in other countries and drank water from them. ⇔ And by marching through [MTY] the streams of Egypt, ⇔ we dried them all up [HYP]!” ’
LEB• wells and I drank foreign water, and I dried up with the sole of my steps• all the canals of Egypt.’
BBEI have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.
KJB-1611[fn]I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of besieged places. (Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above apart from footnotes)
BshpsI haue digged and druncke straunge waters: & with the steppe of my goyng wil I drye al the water pooles that are besieged. (I have digged and drunk strange waters: and with the steppe of my going will I drye all the water pooles that are besieged.)
GnvaI haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in. (I have digged, and drunk the waters of others, and with the plant of my feet have I dried all the floods closed in. )
CvdlI haue dygged and dronke vp the straunge waters, and with ye soles of my fete haue I dryed vp the See. (I have dygged and dronke up the strange waters, and with ye/you_all soles of my feet have I dried up the See.)
Wycland 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. (and I kittide down the forest of Carmele thereof; and I drank alien waters, and I made dry with the steppis of `the feet of mine `alle waters closid.)
Luthich habe gegraben und ausgetrunken die fremden Wasser und habe vertrocknet mit meinen Fußsohlen die Seen. (ich have gegraben and ausgetrunken the fremden water and have vertrocknet with my footsohlen the Seen.)
ClVgego succidi. Et bibi aquas alienas, et siccavi vestigiis pedum meorum omnes aquas clausas.[fn] (ego succidi. And bibi waters alienas, and siccavi vestigiis pedum meorum everyone waters clausas. )
19.24Et siccavi. ID. Vel præ multitudine exercitus omnia fluenta siccavit, ut puteos sibi fodere compulsus sit. Vel omnis populus, quos aquæ significant, suo vastatur exercitu.
19.24And siccavi. ID. Vel præ multitudine exercitus everything fluenta siccavit, as puteos sibi fodere compulsus sit. Vel everyone populus, which awhich significant, his_own vastatur exercitu.
19:21-28 The phrase virgin daughter is often used regarding civic identity (Isa 23:12; 37:22; 47:1; Jer 18:13). Here, the metaphor implies that as a young maiden is rescued from her attacker, so God will rescue Jerusalem. The Lord’s answer was delivered as a “taunt song,” a common literary form in the ancient Near East that rejoiced over an enemy’s humiliation (cp. Isa 14:3-20).
(Occurrence 0) I dried up all the rivers of Egypt under the soles of my feet.
(Some words not found in UHB: I dug and,drank waters foreign and,dried_up in/on/at/with,sole feet,my all streams Miʦrayim/(Egypt) )
This is a boast that Sennacherib has so many soldiers that their feet dry up the water when they cross a river. This is an exaggeration to emphasize the great number of soldiers he has. Alternate translation: “And by marching through the streams of Egypt, we dried them all up!”
The harrowing experience of the attack on Judah by King Sennacherib of Assyria during Hezekiah’s reign is recorded by three different writers of Scripture and even by Sennacherib himself. Many scholars also suspect that this event formed the basis for Herodotus’s story regarding an army of mice eating the bow strings of the Assyrian army during their campaign against the Egyptians (Histories, 2.141). The origins of this event stretch back into the reign of Hezekiah’s father Ahaz, who enticed the Assyrians to attack Israel and Aram in exchange for making Judah a vassal of Assyria (2 Kings 16-17; 2 Chronicles 28; Isaiah 7-8; also see “The Final Days of the Northern Kingdom of Israel” map). Judah continued to be a vassal of Assyria through the early part of Hezekiah’s reign, but Hezekiah also quietly made extensive preparations to throw off the yoke of Assyria one day (2 Kings 18:1-12; 1 Chronicles 4:39-43; 2 Chronicles 29-31; also see “Hezekiah Strengthens Judah” map). Hezekiah also appears to have been hoping for support from Babylon and Egypt regarding his efforts to revolt against Assyria’s rule, but the prophet Isaiah warned Judah against placing their hopes in these foreign powers (Isaiah 30:1-5; 31:1-3; 39:1-8; 40:10-15; 2 Kings 20:12-19). After a few years spent quashing rebellion among the Babylonians, the Kassites, and the Medes in the east, Sennacherib turned his sights westward and began a campaign to subdue the various vassal nations that were refusing to submit to Assyria’s rule any longer. He first reconquered the Phoenician cities of Sidon and Tyre and then moved south to Philistia. He subdued Joppa, Beth-dagon, Bene-berak, and Azor and then moved to capture the cities of the Shephelah, which guarded the entrances to the valleys leading into the central hill country of Judah. While Sennacherib was attacking Lachish he sent his officers to demand Hezekiah’s surrender. This may be the Assyrian advance upon Jerusalem from the north described in Isaiah 10:28-32, but this is not certain (see “Assyria Advances on Jerusalem” map). Hezekiah sent officers back to Sennacherib with gold and silver taken from Temple and the royal treasury, but he would not surrender. The officers then traveled to Libnah to meet with Sennacherib, for he gone to fight there by that time. In the meantime King Tirhakah of Cush, who was ruling over Egypt at this time, came to attack Sennacherib, so Sennacherib sent his officials back to Hezekiah with a message that Jerusalem would be taken if he resisted. Hezekiah laid the letter from the officials before the Lord and prayed, and the Lord sent word through the prophet Isaiah that Jerusalem would not be taken. Then that very night the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers (probably those with Sennacherib fighting the Egyptians), and Sennacherib went back to Assyria. There while he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch, Sennacherib’s sons killed him and fled to Ararat (see “Ararat” map).
