en_tn_lite_do_not_use/2ki/19/23.md

This continues the message from Yahweh given by Isaiah, the prophet, to King Hezekiah concerning King Sennacherib.

you have defied the Lord

To "defy" is to insult or mock.

I have gone up...I will cut down...I will enter...

These boasts made by Sennacherib could only be fulfilled by his army.

I dried up all the rivers of Egypt under the soles of my feet

"And by marching through the streams of Egypt, we dried them all up!" (UDB) (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-hyperbole)