25. digged, and drunk water —In 2 Kings 19:24 , it is " strange waters." I have marched into foreign lands where I had to dig wells for the supply of my armies; even the natural destitution of water there did not impede my march. rivers of . . . besieged places —rather, "the streams (artificial canals from the Nile) of Egypt. " "With the sole of my foot," expresses that as soon as his vast armies marched into a region, the streams were drunk up by them; or rather, that the rivers proved no obstruction to the onward march of his armies. So Isaiah 19:4-6 , referring to Egypt, "the river— brooks of defense —shall be dried up." HORSLEY, translates the Hebrew for "besieged places," "rocks." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-26" class="com-number"
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