24 “Through your servants you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of (A)Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall (B)cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I will go to its [a]highest peak, its thickest (C)forest.

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  1. Isaiah 37:24 Lit farthest height

Assyrians Destroyed

36 Then the (A)angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when [a]men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were [b]dead. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and [c]returned home and lived at (B)Nineveh. 38 It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of (C)Ararat. And (D)Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

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  1. Isaiah 37:36 Lit they
  2. Isaiah 37:36 Lit dead bodies
  3. Isaiah 37:37 Lit went and returned

‘Behold, Assyria was a (A)cedar in Lebanon
With beautiful branches and forest shade,
And [a](B)very high,
And its top was among the [b]clouds.

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  1. Ezekiel 31:3 Lit high of stature
  2. Ezekiel 31:3 So Gr; M.T. thick boughs

“Yet it was I who destroyed the (A)Amorite before them,
[a]Though his (B)height was like the height of cedars
And he was strong as the oaks;
I even destroyed his (C)fruit above and his root below.

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  1. Amos 2:9 Lit Whose height