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 the 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.