# 2 Kings 19:28

> Because your rage and arrogance against Me
have reached My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
and My bit in your mouth;
I will send you back
the way you came.’

— 2 Kings 19:28, Berean Standard Bible

## 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

- Ezekiel 29:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/29/4
- 2 Kings 19:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/33
- Ezekiel 38:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/ezekiel/38/4
- Amos 4:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/amos/4/2
- Job 41:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/41/2
- Isaiah 30:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/30/28

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/28
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).