2 Kings 19
Judah Delivered from
Sennacherib |
2 Chr. 32.20-23 · Is. 37.1-38 |
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And it came to pass, when king Hezeki'ah
heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with
sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
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And he sent Eli'akim, 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.
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And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezeki'ah, 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.
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It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-sha'keh, 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.
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So the servants of king Hezeki'ah came to
Isaiah.
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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.
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Behold, I will send a blast upon 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.
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So Rab-sha'keh returned, and found the
king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was
departed from Lachish.
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And when he heard say of Tirha'kah king
of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee; he sent
messengers again unto Hezeki'ah, saying,
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Thus shall ye speak to Hezeki'ah 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.
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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and
shalt thou be delivered?
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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
Thelas'ar?
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Where is the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharva'im, of Hena,
and Ivah?
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And Hezeki'ah received the letter of
the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezeki'ah went up into
the house of the LORD, and spread it before the
LORD.
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And Hezeki'ah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of
Israel, which dwellest between the cherubim, Ex. 25.22 thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
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LORD, bow down thine
ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see:
and hear the words of Sennach'erib, which hath sent him to reproach
the living God.
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Of a truth, LORD,
the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their
lands,
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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.
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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.
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezeki'ah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against
Sennach'erib king of Assyria I have heard.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I have digged and drunk strange waters,
and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of
besieged places.
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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.
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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.
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But I know thy abode, and thy going out,
and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
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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.
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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.
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And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit
upward.
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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.
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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.
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By the way that he came, by the same
shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.
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For I will defend this city, to save it,
for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
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And it came to pass that night, that
the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in
the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and
when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all
dead corpses.
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So Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed,
and went and returned, and dwelt at Nin'eveh.
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And it came to pass, as he was
worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adram'melech and
Share'zer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into
the land of Armenia. And Esar-had'don his son reigned in his
stead.
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