Isaiah 37:29

Because of his arrogance, God will put a hook in Sennacherib's nose and turn him back the way he came. The mighty king will be led away like a captive beast.

Cross-references · 24

• Ezek 38:4I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws, and bring you out with all your army—your horses, your horsemen in full armor, and a great company armed with shields and bucklers, all brandishing their swords.
• Isa 30:28His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
• Isa 37:34He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city,’ declares the LORD.
• Isa 10:12So when the Lord has completed all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for the fruit of his arrogant heart and the proud look in his eyes.
• Ezek 29:4But I will put hooks in your jaws and cause the fish of your streams to cling to your scales. I will haul you up out of your rivers, and all the fish of your streams will cling to your scales.
• Ps 32:9Do not be like the horse or mule, which have no understanding; they must be controlled with bit and bridle to make them come to you.
• Nah 1:9–11Whatever you plot against the LORD, He will bring to an end. Affliction will not rise up a second time.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
• Matt 27:24When Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing, but that instead a riot was breaking out, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd. “I am innocent of this man’s blood,” he said. “You bear the responsibility.”
• Ps 74:4Your foes have roared within Your meeting place; they have unfurled their banners as signs,
• Isa 37:10“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Ps 74:23Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.
• Amos 4:2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
• Acts 22:22The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”
• Acts 9:4He fell to the ground and heard a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute Me?”
• Ps 46:6Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
• Job 41:2Can you put a cord through his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook?
• 2 Kgs 19:27–28But I know your sitting down, your going out and coming in, and your raging against Me.
• Ps 83:2See how Your enemies rage, how Your foes have reared their heads.
• Ps 93:3–4The floodwaters have risen, O LORD; the rivers have raised their voice; the seas lift up their pounding waves.
• Job 15:25–26For he has stretched out his hand against God and has vaunted himself against the Almighty,
• Isa 36:4The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
• Isa 36:10So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
• John 15:22–23If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

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