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The LORD Delivers Jerusalem from Sennacherib

2 Kings 19:20-37

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Chapter 19
20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: Concerning the matter about which you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard." 21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you." 22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised a voice and lifted up your eyes on high—against the Holy One of Israel? 23 By the hand of your messengers you have defied the Lord, and you said, "By the multitude of my chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, the recesses of Lebanon, and I cut down the height of its cedars, the choice of its cypresses, and I will enter the lodging-place of the end of the forest of Carmel." 24 I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I dried up every stream of the Rock. 25 Have you not heard? Long ago I planned it, in days of old, and now I have brought it to pass—cities becoming mounds, surging waves, fortified cities in distress. 26 Their inhabitants, short of hand, were dismayed and dried up. They were like grass of the field and green growth of grass, hay of roofs, and a blighting before standing. 27 I have known your sitting, your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. 28 Because you have raged against me and your raging has come up into my ears, I will put my ring in your nose and my bridle in your lips, and I will return you by the way by which you came. 29 This will be the sign for you: eat this year what grows on its own, and in the second year what shoots up, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 30 The escape of the house of Judah that remains will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion; the zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this. 32 Therefore, the LORD says this to the king of Assyria: He will not come to this city, he will not shoot an arrow there, he will not advance a shield against it, and he will not pour out a siege ramp against her. 33 By the way by which he comes, he will return, and he will not enter this city, says the LORD. 34 And I will defend this city to save her, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant. 35 And it was in that night, the angel of the LORD went out and struck in the camp of Assyria a hundred eighty and five thousand, and they rose early in the morning, and behold, all of them were corpses, dead ones. 36 He journeyed and went and dwelt—Sennacherib king of Assyria—in Nineveh. 37 And it was, he was prostrating himself in the house of Nisroch his God, and Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him down with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son reigned in place of him.