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2 Kings 19
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- 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 house tops, 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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