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* And when King Hezekiah heard [it ], he rent his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the LORD . * And he sent Eliakim , who [was ] over the household , and Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests , covered with sackcloth , to Isaiah , the prophet , the son of Amoz , * to say unto him , Thus hath Hezekiah said , This day [is ] a day of trouble and of rebuke and blasphemy , for the sons are come to the place of breaking forth , and she that gives birth has no strength . * Peradventure , the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh , whom the king of Assyria , his master , has sent to reproach the living God and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God has heard ; therefore , lift up [thy ] prayer for the remnant that is left . * So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said unto them , Thus shall ye say to your master , Thus hath the LORD said , Do not be afraid of the words which thou hast heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me . * Behold , I will send a spirit upon him , and he shall hear a rumour and shall return to his own land , and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land . * So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah , for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish . * And when he heard it said of Tirhakah , king of Ethiopia , Behold , he is come out to fight against thee ; he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah , saying , * Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah , king of Judah , saying , Let not thy God in whom thou dost trust deceive thee , saying , Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands , by destroying them utterly ; and shalt thou be delivered ? * Peradventure have the gods of the Gentiles delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed , [as ] Gozan , Haran , Rezeph , and the sons of Eden , who [were ] in Thelasar ? * Where [is ] the king of Hamath , the king of Arpad , the king of the city of Sepharvaim , of Hena , and Ivah ? * And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it ; and Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD . * And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD , saying , O LORD God of Israel , who dwellest [above ] the cherubim , thou alone art the God unto all the kingdoms of the earth ; thou hast made heaven and earth . * Incline , O LORD , thy ear and hear ; open , O LORD , thine eyes and see and hear the words of Sennacherib , which he has sent to reproach the living God . * Of a truth , O LORD , the kings of Assyria have destroyed the Gentiles and their lands * and have cast their gods into the fire , for they [were ] not gods , but the work of men 's hands , wood or stone ; therefore , they have destroyed them . * Now , therefore , O LORD our God , I beseech thee , save us now out of his hand , that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou alone [art ] the LORD God . * Then Isaiah , the son of Amoz , sent to Hezekiah , saying , Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said , [That ] which thou hast prayed to me regarding Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard . * This [is ] the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him : Has he despised thee ? Has he laughed thee to scorn , O virgin daughter of Zion ? He has moved his head behind thy back , O daughter of Jerusalem . * Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed ? And against whom hast thou exalted [thy ] voice and lifted up thine eyes on high ? Against the Holy [One ] of Israel . * By the hand of thy messengers , thou hast reproached the Lord and hast said , With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains , to the sides of Lebanon , and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof [and ] the choice fir trees thereof ; and I will enter into the habitation of his borders [and into ] the forest of his Carmel . * I have dug and drunk the waters of others , and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of defended places . * Hast thou never heard that from a long time [ago ] I made her , [and ] from ancient times I have formed her ? Now I have made her come , and it shall be to lay waste fenced cities [into ] ruinous heaps . * Therefore their inhabitants ' hands were too short ; dismayed and confounded , they shall be [as ] the grass of the field and [as ] the green herb , [as ] the hay on the housetops , that is dried up before it comes to maturity . * But I know thy abode and thy going out and thy coming in and thy rage against me . * Because thou hast raged against me and thy tumult has come up into my ears , therefore , I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips , and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou didst come . * And this [shall be ] a sign unto thee , Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves , and in the second year such things as grow [again ] of themselves ; and in the third year ye shall sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them . * And that which has escaped , that which is left of the house of Judah , shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward . * For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and deliverance out of Mount Zion ; the zeal of the LORD of the hosts shall do this . * Therefore , thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria , He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shield nor cast a bank against it . * By the way that he came , by the same shall he return , and he shall not enter into this city , saith the LORD . * For I will defend this city , to save it , for my own sake and for my servant David 's sake . * And it came to pass that night that the angel of the LORD went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand [men ]; and when they arose early in the morning , behold , the corpses of the dead . * So Sennacherib , king of Assyria , departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh . * And it came to pass , as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch , his god , that Adrammelech and Sharezer , his sons , smote him with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat . And Esarhaddon , his son , reigned in his stead .:

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