2 Kings 19:14

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“So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.”

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BSBPD

“So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord, and spread it before the Lord.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up unto the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Hezekiah taketh the letters out of the hand of the messengers, and readeth them, and goeth up to the house of Jehovah, and Hezekiah spreadeth it before Jehovah.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo 2 Kings 19:14 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. 1 Samuel 8:21Samuel listened to all the words of the people and repeated them in the hearing of the LORD.
  2. 1 Kings 8:28Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today.
  3. Ezra 9:5At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,
  4. Psalms 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
  5. Psalms 74:10How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?
  6. Psalms 91:1He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
  7. Psalms 123:1I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven.
  8. Isaiah 37:14So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
  9. Jeremiah 11:20O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to You I have committed my cause.

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