2 Kings 19
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1 And it came to pass, when
king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself
with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2 And he sent Eliakim, which 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.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for
the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring
forth.
4 It may be the LORD thy God will hear all
the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to
reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath
heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to
Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye
say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which thou
hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast 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.
8 So Rabshakeh returned, and
found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king
of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers
again unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of
Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying,
Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings
of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered
them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph,
and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
14 And Hezekiah received the letter of the
hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the
LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD,
and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou
hast made heaven and earth.
16 LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear:
open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath
sent him to reproach the living God.
17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria
have destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have cast their gods into the fire:
for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone:
therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I
beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth
may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
20 Then Isaiah the son of
Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That
which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
21 This is the word that the LORD
hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and
laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou reproached and
blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up
thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproached
the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am 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 lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
24 I have digged and drunk strange waters,
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
25 Hast thou not heard long ago how
I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I
brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps.
26 Therefore their inhabitants were of
small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of
the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops,
and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going
out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because thy rage against me and thy
tumult is come up into mine 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
camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto
thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the
second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and
reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of
hosts shall do this.
32 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.
33 By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
34 For I will defend this city, to save
it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.
35 And it came to pass that
night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in
the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 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 they escaped into the land of Armenia. And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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