2 Kings 19:24 “I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I…”

2 Kings 19:24

I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters. With the soles of my feet I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

World English Bible

I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”

American Standard Version

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt.

Geneva Bible 1599

I haue digged, and drunke the waters of others, and with the plant of my feete haue I dried all the floods closed in.

Darby Translation

I have digged, and have drunk strange waters, And with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

Young's Literal Translation

I have digged, and drunk strange waters, And I dry up with the sole of my steps All floods of a bulwark.

Bible in Basic English

I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

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Cross references

“with the sole”

Exodus 15:9 2 Samuel 17:13 1 Kings 20:10 Daniel 4:30

Exodus 15:9 · BSB

The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’

2 Samuel 17:13 · BSB

If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found there.”

1 Kings 20:10 · BSB

Then Ben-hadad sent another message to Ahab: “May the gods deal with me, and ever so severely, if enough dust remains of Samaria for each of my men to have a handful.”

Daniel 4:30 · BSB

the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built as a royal residence by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?”

Also

Isaiah 19:6

Isaiah 19:6 · BSB

The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

23Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest outposts, the densest of its forests.

25Have you not heard? Long ago I ordained it; in days of old I planned it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should crush fortified cities into piles of rubble.

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