# 2 Kings 19:21

> This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him:
‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion
despises you and mocks you;
the Daughter of Jerusalem
shakes her head behind you.

— 2 Kings 19:21, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Jerusalem** (Judea · today Jerusalem) — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/jerusalem
- **Zion** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/zion

## When

- 701 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 2 Kings 18:13 dates itself by the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; the Sennacherib Prism dates the same campaign to 701 BC and names Hezekiah.

## Who ruled

- **Sennacherib**, king of Assyria, 705-681 BC · Source: Taylor Prism (British Museum), in which he tells of besieging Jerusalem and names "Hezekiah, the Jew," but does not say he took the city
- **Hezekiah**, king of Judah, 715-686 BC · Source: 2 Kings 18-20; the Sennacherib Prism, which names him; the Siloam tunnel and the inscription found in it, which record the work of 2 Kings 20:20

## See also

- Lamentations 2:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/lamentations/2/13
- Job 16:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/16/4
- Jeremiah 14:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/14/17
- Matthew 27:39 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/matthew/27/39
- Psalms 22:7-8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/22/7
- Psalms 109:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/109/25
- Isaiah 37:21-35 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/37/21
- Lamentations 2:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/lamentations/2/15

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/21
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).