Bible Strands
2 Kings 19:31
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The LORD addresses Judah during the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem, declaring that the invading king will not enter the city or construct siege works against it.
The words — שְׁאֵרִית (she'arit) means "a remnant," and קִנְאַת (qin'at) denotes the "zeal" that will execute the promised deliverance.
The thread — The remnant motif reappears in Isaiah 10:20 as survivors who will cease relying on their oppressor, while zeal functions as a consuming force in John 2:17 and as the engine of endless Davidic rule in Isaiah 9:7.
Why it lands — The passage requires readers to abandon reliance on military or political solutions and acknowledge that preservation rests solely on divine action. It demands a posture of waiting on God's declared zeal rather than human calculation.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
Cross-references
- Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish and sustain it with justice and righteousness from that time and forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
- Isaiah 10:20 On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no longer depend on him who struck them, but they will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.
- John 2:17 His disciples remembered that it is written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
- Romans 9:27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the Israelites is like the sand of the sea, only the remnant will be saved.
- Romans 11:5 In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
- Isaiah 59:17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on His head; He put on garments of vengeance and wrapped Himself in a cloak of zeal.
- Isaiah 63:15 Look down from heaven and see, from Your holy and glorious habitation. Where are Your zeal and might? Your yearning and compassion for me are restrained.
- Jeremiah 44:14 so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
- Ezekiel 5:13 And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken.
- Ezekiel 20:9 But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.