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II KINGS ยท Chapter 19
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.
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.
19:3 And they said unto him, Thus says 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.
19:4 It may be the LORD your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh,
whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God;
and will reprove the words which the LORD your God has heard: wherefore
lift up your prayer for the remnant that are left.
19:5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
19:6 And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall all of you say to your master,
Thus says the LORD, Be not afraid of the words which you have heard, with
which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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.
19:8 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against
Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
19:9 And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he
has come out to fight against you: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah,
saying,
19:10 Thus shall all of you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
19:11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to
all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered?
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?
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?
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.
19:15 And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of
Israel, which dwell between the cherubims, you are the God, even you alone,
of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth.
19:16 LORD, bow down your ear, and hear: open, LORD, your eyes, and
see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which has sent him to reproach
the living God.
19:17 Truthfully, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations
and their lands,
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.
19:19 Now therefore, O LORD our God, I plead to you, save you us out
of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are the
LORD God, even you only.
19:20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says
the LORD God of Israel, That which you have prayed to me against Sennacherib
king of Assyria I have heard.
19:21 This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him; The
virgin the daughter of Zion has despised you, and laughed you to scorn;
the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
19:22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? and against whom have
you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? even against the
Holy One of Israel.
19:23 By your messengers you have reproached the LORD, and have 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.
19:24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my
feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.
19:25 Have you 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 you should
be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.
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.
19:27 But I know your abode, and your going out, and your coming in,
and your rage against me.
19:28 Because your rage against me and your tumult has come up into
mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in
your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.
19:29 And this shall be a sign unto you, All of you shall eat this
year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which
springs of the same; and in the third year sow all of you, and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
19:30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
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.
19:32 Therefore thus says 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.
19:33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall
not come into this city, says the LORD.
19:34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and
for my servant David's sake.
19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went
out, and stroke 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.
19:36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned,
and dwelt at Nineveh.
19:37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch
his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons stroke him with the sword:
and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned
in his position.
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