2 Kings 19:3
to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
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.
Note blasphemy: or, provocation
They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- This day
- 2 Kings 18:29; Psalm 39:11; Psalm 123:3, 4; Jeremiah 30:5–7; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 6:1
- blasphemy
- or, provocation.
- Psalm 95:8; Hebrews 3:15, 16
- for the children
- Isaiah 26:17, 18; Isaiah 66:9; Hosea 13:13