2Ki 19:23-24 | NET2full | STEP | Through your messengers you taunted the Sovereign Master , ‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains , the slopes of Lebanon . I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens . I invaded its most remote regions , its thickest woods .

‏ 2 Kings 19:23-24

23 Through your messengers you taunted the Sovereign Master, ^{▼▼tn The word is אֲדֹנָי (ʾadonay), “lord,” but some Hebrew mss have יְהוָה (yehvah), “Lord.”}
‘With my many chariots ^{▼▼tc The consonantal text (Kethib) has בְּרֶכֶב (berekhev), but this must be dittographic (note the following רִכְבִּי [rikhbi], “my chariots”). The marginal reading (Qere) בְּרֹב (berov), “with many,” is supported by many Hebrew mss and ancient versions, as well as the parallel passage in Isa 37:24.}
I climbed up the high mountains,
the slopes of Lebanon.
I cut down its tall cedars
and its best evergreens.
I invaded its most remote regions, ^{▼▼tn Heb “the lodging place of its extremity.”}
its thickest woods.
24 I dug wells and drank
water in foreign lands. ^{▼▼tn Heb “I dug and drank foreign waters.”}
With the soles of my feet I dried up
all the rivers of Egypt.’