| II Kings 19:24
| I have cut down. And I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the soles of my feet all the shut-up waters.
| Strange waters, which did not run in my original dominions, (Haydock) or which were found by opening springs before unknown. --- Shut-up, with mounds of earth, or in the banks of rivers. The army of Xerxes is said to have drunk whole rivers dry. We might also translate, "I have dried up the waters, which served as ramparts for cities." Thus Cyrus diverted the streams of the Gnidus, and of the Euphrates. Hebrew also, perhaps most literally, "I will dry up the rivulets of Egypt." See Isaias 19:6., and 37:25. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "all the rivers of besieged places." (Haydock)
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