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* And it happened , when king Hezekiah heard , that he tore his garments and covered himself with sackcloth and went in to the house of Jehovah ; * and he sent Eliakim , who was over the house , and Shebna the scribe , and the elders of the priests , covering themselves with sackcloth , to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz . * And they said to him , So says Hezekiah , it is a day of distress , and of rebuke , and of contempt today ; for the sons have come to the birth , and there is no power to bring forth . * It may be that Jehovah your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer , with which his master the king of Assyria has sent him to reproach the living God , and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard ; and you shall lift up prayer for the remnant that is found . * And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said to them , You shall say this to your lord : So says Jehovah , Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled Me . * Behold , I will put a spirit in him , and he shall hear a rumor and shall turn back to his land ; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his land . * And the chief cupbearer returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah , for he had heard that he had traveled from Lachish . * And when he heard it said of Tirhakah the king of Ethiopia , Behold , he is coming out to fight against you , he sent messengers again to Hezekiah , saying , * So you shall speak to Hezekiah the king of Judah , saying , Do not let your God in whom you trust delude you , saying , Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands , by utterly destroying them ; and shall you be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations delivered them , which my fathers have destroyed , Gozan , and Haran , and Rezeph , and the sons of Eden in Telassar ? * Where is the king of Hamath , and the king of Arpad , and the king of the city of Sepharvaim , of Hena , and Ivah ? * And Hezekiah took the letters out of the hand of the messengers , and read them , and went up to the house of Jehovah . And Hezekiah spread it before the face of Jehovah . * And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah , and said , O Jehovah the God of Israel , who sits above the cherubs , You are God Himself , You alone , to all the kingdoms of the earth ; You have made the heavens and the earth . * O Jehovah , incline Your ear and hear ; O Jehovah , open Your eyes and see ; and hear the words of Sennacherib with which he has sent him to reproach the living God . * Truly , O Jehovah , the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations , and their lands ; * and have put their gods into the fire , for they were no gods , but the work of the hands of man , wood and stone , and have destroyed them . * And now , O Jehovah our God , we pray to You , save us out of his hand , and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that You are Jehovah God , You alone . * And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , So says Jehovah , the God of Israel I have heard that which you have prayed to Me regarding Sennacherib the king of Assyria ; * this is the word that Jehovah spoke concerning him : The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn ; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind you . * Whom have you reproached and reviled ? Against whom have you lifted up a voice ? Yea , you have lifted up your eyes on high , even against the Holy One of Israel ! * By the hand of your messengers , you have defamed the Lord , and have said , With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains , to the sides of Lebanon , and I will cut down the height of its cedars , the best of its firs , and I will enter into the furthest dwelling , its densest forest ; * I have dug and drunk strange waters , and I dried up with the sole of my feet all the rivers of Egypt . * Have you not heard from afar , I made it ? From days of old I formed it . Now I have caused it to come , that you should make fortified cities desolate ruin heaps . * And their inhabitants were short in hand ; they were terrified and were ashamed ; they were as the grass of the field , and the green herb , as the grass on the housetops and blasted grain before it was grown ! * But I have known your sitting down , and your going out , and your coming in , and your rage against Me . * Because of your raging against Me , and because your arrogance has come up into My ears , even I will put My hook in your nose , and My bridle in your lips , and I will turn you back by the way which you came . * And this shall be the sign for you : you shall eat this year that which grows of itself , and in the second year that which springs of the same ; and in the third year you shall sow , and reap , and plant vineyards , and eat their fruit . * And the escaped ones of the house of Judah that is left shall again take root downward , and bear fruit upward . * For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant , and out of Mount Zion they that shall escape ; the zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this . * So Jehovah says this concerning the king of Assyria , He shall not come into this city , nor shoot an arrow there , nor come before it with shield , nor shall he pour out a siege mound against it . * By the way that he came in , in it he shall return ; and he shall not come into this city , says Jehovah . * For I will defend this city , to save it , for My own sake , and for My servant David 's sake . * And it happened in that night , that the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty five thousand in the camp of Assyria ; and they rose up early in the morning , and behold , all of them were dead bodies . * And Sennacherib the king of Assyria moved , and went and returned , and lived in Nineveh . * And it happened , as he was bowing himself in the house of his god Nisroch , his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword ; and they escaped into the land of Ararat . And his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place .

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