2Kings:19

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* And it happened when King Hezekiah heard , he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth . And he 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 . * And they said to him , So says Hezekiah , [This is ] a day of trouble and of rebuke and contempt . For the sons have come to the birth , and [there is ] no strength to bring forth . * It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer with which his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God , and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard . And you shall lift up prayer for the rest who are left . * And the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah . * And Isaiah said to them , You shall say to your master , So says the LORD , Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard , with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me . * Behold , I will send a blast on him , and he shall hear a rumor and shall return to his own land . And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land . * And the chief cupbearer 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 has come out to fight against you , he sent messengers again to Hezekiah , saying , * So you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah , saying , Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you , saying , Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria . * Behold , you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them . And shall you be delivered ? * Have the gods of the nations delivered them , nations 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 of Ivah ? * And Hezekiah received the letters 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 Jehovah and said , O Jehovah God of Israel , who dwells [between ] the cherubs , You [are ] God Himself , You alone , of all the kingdoms of the earth . You have made the heavens and the earth . * LORD , bow down Your ear and hear . O LORD , open Your eyes and see , and hear the words of Sennacherib , who has sent him to taunt the living God . * Truly , LORD , the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands , * and have thrown their gods into the fire ; for they [were ] no gods , but the work of men 's hands , wood and stone , and they have destroyed them . * And now , O , LORD our God , I beseech You , save us out of his hand , so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You [are ] the LORD God , and You only . * And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah , saying , So says Jehovah God of Israel , I have heard what you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria . * This [is ] the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him : The virgin , the daughter of Zion , has despised you [and ] laughed you to scorn . The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you . * Whom have you mocked and blasphemed ? And against whom have you exalted [your ] voice and lifted up your eyes on high ? Even against the Holy One of Israel ! * You have mocked the Lord by your messengers , 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 will cut down its tall cedar trees , its choice fir trees . And I will enter into the lodgings of its borders , its densest forest ; * I have dug and drunk foreign waters , and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt . * Have you not heard it from afar , I made it ? From days of old I fashioned it ! Now I have caused it to come ; that you should make fortified cities desolate heaps of ruins . * And their people were of small power , they were fearful and put to shame . They were [like ] the grass of the field , and the green herb , like the grass on the house-tops , and like grain blasted before it was grown up . * But I know your sitting down , and your going out , and your coming in , and your rage against Me . * Because of your rage 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 in which you came . * And this shall be a sign to you : you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves , and in the second year that which springs up of the same . And in the third year , sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruits of them . * And the remnant that has escaped 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 they who escape out of Mount Zion . The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this . * So the LORD 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 throw up a bank against it . * By the way that he came , by the same he shall return , and shall not come into this city , says the LORD . * For I will defend this city , to save it for My own sake and for My servant David 's sake . * And it happened that night , the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians . And they arose early in the morning , and behold , they were all dead bodies . * And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed . And he went and returned and lived at Nineveh . * And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god , Adrammelech and Sharezer , his sons , struck him with the sword . And they escaped into the land of Ararat . And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place .

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