Isaiah 37
Judah Delivered from
Sennacherib |
2 Kgs. 19.1-37 · 2 Chr.
32.20-23 |
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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, who was over
the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, unto 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
of 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 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 is
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 unto your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be
not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith 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 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 he heard say concerning Tirha'kah
king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when
he heard it, he sent messengers to 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 given 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
Telas'sar?
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Where is the king of Hamath, and
the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharva'im, Hena,
and Ivah?
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And Hezeki'ah received the letter from
the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezeki'ah went up unto
the house of the LORD, and spread it before the
LORD.
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And Hezeki'ah prayed unto the LORD, saying,
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O LORD of hosts, God
of Israel, that 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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Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennach'erib,
which hath sent to reproach the living God.
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Of a truth, LORD,
the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their
countries,
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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, save us from his hand, that all the
kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD, even thou only.
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto
Hezeki'ah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennach'erib king of
Assyria:
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this is the word which 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 servants hast thou reproached the
Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to
the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut
down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees
thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.
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I have digged, and drunk water; and with
the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the 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 defensed 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 will I 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 as groweth of itself; and
the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third
year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit
thereof.
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And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall 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
shields, 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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Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the
Assyrians a hundred and 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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