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2KI-19:1 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.
2KI-19:2 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.
2KI-19:3 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.
2KI-19:4 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.
2KI-19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
2KI-19:6 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.
2KI-19:7 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.
2KI-19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria
warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed
from Lachish.
2KI-19:9 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,
2KI-19:10 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.
2KI-19:11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be
delivered?
2KI-19:12 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?
2KI-19:13 Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad,
and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
2KI-19:14 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.
2KI-19:15 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.
2KI-19:16 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.
2KI-19:17 Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed
the nations and their lands,
2KI-19:18 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.
2KI-19:19 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.
2KI-19:20 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.
2KI-19:21 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.
2KI-19:22 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.
2KI-19:23 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.
2KI-19:24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the
sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged
places.
2KI-19:25 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.
2KI-19:26 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.
2KI-19:27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy
coming in, and thy rage against me.
2KI-19:28 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. 2KI-19:29 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.
2KI-19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah
shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
2KI-19:31 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.
2KI-19:32 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.
2KI-19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,
and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. ` 2KI-19:34
For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.
2KI-19:35 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.
2KI-19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and
returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
2KI-19:37 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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