2 Kings 19 · Verse 4

2 Kings 19:4

It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab–shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
2 Kings 19:4, King James Version

2 Kings 19:4 in other translations

BSBPerhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
WEBIt may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
ASVIt may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that is left.
YLT‘It may be Jehovah thy God doth hear all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord hath sent him to reproach the living God, and hath decided concerning the words that Jehovah thy God hath heard, and thou hast lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.'
DARBYIt may be Jehovah thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God; and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thy God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.
BBEIt may be that the Lord your God will give ear to the words of the Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria, his master, sent to say evil things against the living God, and will make his words come to nothing: so then make your prayer for the rest of the people.
WebsterIt may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

What does 2 Kings 19:4 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
4. the living God--"The living God" is a most significant expression taken in connection with the senseless deities that Rab-shakeh boasted were unable to resist his master's victorious arms. 2Ki 19:6, 7. Comforted by Isaiah.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 4 The remnant that are left - That is, the Jews; the ten tribes having been already carried away captive by the kings of Assyria.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 2 Kings 19:1-7

Hezekiah discovered deep concern at the dishonour done to God by Rabshakeh's blasphemy. Those who speak from God to us, we should in a particular manner desire to speak to God for us. The great Prophet is the great Intercessor. Those are likely to prevail with God, who lift up their hearts in prayer. Man's extremity is God's opportunity. While his servants can speak nothing but terror to the profane, the proud, and…

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2 Kings 19:4 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אוּלַ֡י'u.LaiperhapsH194
יִשְׁמַע֩yish.Ma'he will hearH8085
יְהוָ֨הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֜יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
אֵ֣ת\׀'et<obj.>H853
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
דִּבְרֵ֣יdiv.Rei[the] words ofH1697
רַב\־rav-[the] chiefH7262
שָׁקֵ֗הsha.KehcommanderH7262
אֲשֶׁר֩'a.SherwhomH834
שְׁלָח֨וֹshe.la.Chohe sent himH7971
מֶֽלֶךְ\־Me.lekh-[the] king ofH4428
אַשּׁ֤וּר\׀'a.ShurAssyriaH804
אֲדֹנָיו֙'a.do.Navmaster<s> hisH113
לְחָרֵף֙le.cha.Refto tauntH2778
אֱלֹהִ֣ים'E.lo.Him[the] GodH430
חַ֔יChailivingH2416
וְהוֹכִ֙יחַ֙ve.ho.Khi.achand he will rebukeH3198
בַּדְּבָרִ֔יםba.de.va.Rim<in> the wordsH1697
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
שָׁמַ֖עsha.Ma'he has heardH8085
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֶ֑יךָ'e.lo.Hei.khaGod yourH430
וְנָשָׂ֣אתָve.na.Sa.taand you will lift upH5375
תְפִלָּ֔הte.fi.LahprayerH8605
בְּעַ֥דbe.'AdforH1157
הַשְּׁאֵרִ֖יתha.she.'e.Ritthe remnantH7611
הַנִּמְצָאָֽה\׃ha.nim.tza.'Ahwhich is foundH4672

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Cross references for 2 Kings 19:4

  • 2 Samuel 16:12

    It may be that the Lord will look on mine affliction, and that the Lord will requite me good for his cursing this day.

  • James 5:16-17

    Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

  • Romans 9:27

    Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:

  • Ezekiel 36:37

    Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be enquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

  • Joshua 14:12

    Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the Lord said.

  • Psalms 74:18

    Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

  • Isaiah 10:6

    I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

  • Isaiah 8:7-8

    Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks: And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.

  • 2 Kings 18:17-35

    And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab–shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field. And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder. And Rab–shakeh said unto them, Speak ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest? Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? …

  • 2 Chronicles 32:20

    And for this cause Hezekiah the king, and the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz, prayed and cried to heaven.

  • 2 Kings 17:5-6

    Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years. In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

  • Psalms 50:15

    And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
the Lord.
Ge 22:14; De 32:36; Jos 14:12; 1Sa 14:6; 2Sa 16:12
whom the king.
18:17-35
reprove.
22; 1Sa 17:45; Ps 50:21; 74:18
lift up.
2Ch 32:20; Ps 50:15; Jer 33:3; Eze 36:37; Ro 9:27; Jas 5:16,17
the remnant.
17:5,6; 18:13; 2Ch 28:5,6; Isa 8:7,8; 10:6
left. Heb. found.

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Context

  • 2 Kings 19:3

    And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

  • 2 Kings 19:4

    It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab–shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.

  • 2 Kings 19:5

    So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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2 Kings 19:4 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Quizá oirá Jehová tu Dios todas las palabras de Rabsaces, al cual el rey de los Asirios su señor ha enviado para injuriar al Dios vivo, y á vituperar con palabras, las cuales Jehová tu Dios ha oído: por tanto, eleva oración por las reliquias que aun se hallan.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Peut-être l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, entendra-t-il toutes les paroles du Rab-Shaké, que le roi d’Assyrie, son seigneur, a envoyé pour outrager le Dieu vivant, et punira-t-il les paroles que l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, a entendues? Fais donc monter une prière pour le résidu qui se trouve encore.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Vielleicht wird Jehova, dein Gott, alle Worte des Rabsake hören, welchen sein Herr, der König von Assyrien, gesandt hat, um den lebendigen Gott zu höhnen, und wird die Worte bestrafen, die Jehova, dein Gott, gehört hat. Erhebe denn ein Gebet für den Überrest, der sich noch vorfindet!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Si forte audiat Dominus Deus tuus universa verba Rabsacis, quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus ut exprobraret Deum viventem et argueret verbis, quæ audivit Dominus Deus tuus: et fac orationem pro reliquiis quæ repertæ sunt.