2 Kings 19:13 Meaning and Explanation
“Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?”
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Read Full Chapter →Sennacherib taunts Hezekiah by asking where the kings of fallen cities now are.
What Does 2 Kings 19:13 Mean?
The taunt sharpens to a single mocking question: where are they now? The kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah have vanished, swallowed by Assyria's advance. Sennacherib means the question to hang in the air as a promise of Jerusalem's coming silence.
Where is, he asks, certain that no answer remains for any throne that stood against him. It is the voice of every power that imagines itself the last word in history. But the same question can be turned, and the closing verses of this chapter will turn it, for soon it is Sennacherib's own army, and then his own life, that will prompt the asking, where is he now? Pride that demands where are they will one day hear the question asked of itself.
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What does 2 Kings 19:13 mean?
Sennacherib taunts Hezekiah by asking where the kings of fallen cities now are.