Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Concerning him - i. e., "concerning Sennacherib." II Kings 19:21-28 are addressed to the great Assyrian monarch himself, and are God' s reply to his proud boastings.
The virgin, the daughter of Zion, - Rather, holy eastern city, is here distinguished from Jerusalem, the western one, and is given the remarkable epithet "virgin," which is not applied to her sister; probably because the true Zion, the city of David, had remained inviolable from David' s time, having never been entered by an enemy. Jerusalem, on the other hand, had been taken, both by Shishak I Kings 14:26 and by Jehoash II Kings 14:13. The personification of cities as females is a common figure (compare marginal references).
Hath shaken her head at thee - This was a gesture of scorn with the Hebrews (compare the marginal references; Matthew 27:39).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
2 Kings 19:21
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