2 Kings 19:28

Because of his arrogance, God will put a hook in Sennacherib's nose and a bridle in his lips and turn him back the way he came. God will humble and reverse the proud king's advance.

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• Ezek 29:4I will put hooks in your jaws, and I will make the fish of your rivers stick to your scales; and I will bring you up out of the middle of your rivers, with all the fish of your rivers which stick to your scales.
• Ezek 38:4and I will turn you around, and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords;
• 2 Kgs 19:33By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
• Amos 4:2The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, “The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
• Job 41:2Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
• Isa 30:28His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction; and a bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
• Ps 32:9Don’t be like the horse, or like the mule, which have no understanding, who are controlled by bit and bridle, or else they will not come near to you.
• Ps 65:7who stills the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, and the turmoil of the nations.
• Ps 7:6Arise, Yahweh, in your anger. Lift up yourself against the rage of my adversaries. Awake for me. You have commanded judgment.
• Ps 83:2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
• Ps 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
• Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
• Ps 74:23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
• Ps 10:13–14Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”
• Ps 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
• John 15:18If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.
• John 15:23–24He who hates me, hates my Father also.
• 2 Kgs 19:36–37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.
• Ezek 19:9They put him in a cage with hooks, and brought him to the king of Babylon. They brought him into strongholds, that his voice should no more be heard on the mountains of Israel.
• Luke 6:11But they were filled with rage, and talked with one another about what they might do to Jesus.
• Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
• Ps 2:1–5Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?

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