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 38:4And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
• Isa 30:28And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
• Isa 37:34By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
• Isa 10:12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Ezek 29:4But I will put hooks in thy jaws, and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will bring thee up out of the midst of thy rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shall stick unto thy scales.
• Ps 32:9Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding: whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle, lest they come near unto thee.
• Nah 1:9–11What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
• Matt 27:24When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.
• Ps 74:4Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.
• Isa 37:10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
• Ps 74:23Forget not the voice of thine enemies: the tumult of those that rise up against thee increaseth continually.
• Amos 4:2The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
• Acts 22:22And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that he should live.
• Acts 9:4And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
• Ps 46:6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
• Job 41:2Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?
• 2 Kgs 19:27–28But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
• Ps 83:2For, lo, thine enemies make a tumult: and they that hate thee have lifted up the head.
• Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves.
• Job 15:25–26For he stretcheth out his hand against God, and strengtheneth himself against the Almighty.
• Isa 36:4And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
• Isa 36:10And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
• John 15:22–23If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

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