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 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;
• 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.
• Isa 37:34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
• Isa 10:12Therefore it will happen that, when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his haughty looks.
• 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.
• 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.
• Nah 1:9–11What do you plot against Yahweh? He will make a full end. Affliction won’t rise up the second time.
• Ps 2:1–3Why do the nations rage, and the peoples plot a vain thing?
• Matt 27:24So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”
• Ps 74:4Your adversaries have roared in the middle of your assembly. They have set up their standards as signs.
• Isa 37:10“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”
• Ps 74:23Don’t forget the voice of your adversaries. The tumult of those who rise up against you ascends continually.
• 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.
• Acts 22:22They listened to him until he said that; then they lifted up their voice, and said, “Rid the earth of this fellow, for he isn’t fit to live!”
• Acts 9:4He fell on the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?”
• Ps 46:6The nations raged. The kingdoms were moved. He lifted his voice, and the earth melted.
• Job 41:2Can you put a rope into his nose, or pierce his jaw through with a hook?
• 2 Kgs 19:27–28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
• Ps 83:2For, behold, your enemies are stirred up. Those who hate you have lifted up their heads.
• Ps 93:3–4The floods have lifted up, Yahweh, the floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves.
• Job 15:25–26Because he has stretched out his hand against God, and behaves himself proudly against the Almighty;
• Isa 36:4Rabshakeh said to them, “Now tell Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
• Isa 36:10Have I come up now without Yahweh against this land to destroy it? Yahweh 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 have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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