1 And A2 Kin 19:1-37; Is 37:1-38when King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Loʀᴅ. 2 Then he sent AIs 22:20Eliakim who was over the household with BIs 22:15Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to CIs 1:1; 20:2Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. 3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a AIs 22:5; 26:16; 33:2day of distress, rebuke and rejection; for BIs 26:17, 18; 66:9; Hos 13:13children have come to birth, and there is no strength to 1Lit give birthdeliver. 4  ‘Perhaps the Loʀᴅ your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to AIs 36:13-15, 18, 20reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Loʀᴅ your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for BIs 1:9; 10:20-22; 37:31, 32; 46:3the remnant that is left.’ ”

5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Loʀᴅ, “AIs 7:4; 35:4Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. 7  “Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will AIs 37:9hear a rumor and BIs 37:37, 38return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”

8 Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against ANum 33:20; Josh 10:29Libnah, for he had heard that 1Lit hethe king had left BJosh 10:31, 32Lachish. 9 When he AIs 37:7heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of 1Or EthiopiaBIs 18:1; 20:5Cush, “He has come out to fight against you,” and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, 10 “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of 1Lit Judah, sayingJudah, ‘AIs 36:15Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11  ‘AIs 10:9-11; 36:18-20Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be 1Lit deliveredspared? 12  ‘Did the gods of 1Lit thethose nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even A2 Kin 17:6; 18:11Gozan and BGen 11:31; 12:1-4; Acts 7:2Haran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? 13  ‘Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’ ”

14 Then Hezekiah took the 1Lit lettersletter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Loʀᴅ and 2Lit Hezekiah spreadspread it out before the Loʀᴅ. 15 Hezekiah prayed to the Loʀᴅ saying, 16 “O Loʀᴅ of hosts, the God of Israel, AEx 25:22; 1 Sam 4:4; Ps 80:1; 99:1who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the BDeut 10:17; Ps 86:10; 136:2, 3God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. CIs 42:5; 45:12; Jer 10:12You have made heaven and earth. 17  “A2 Chr 6:40; Ps 17:6; Dan 9:18Incline Your ear, O Loʀᴅ, and hear; open Your eyes, O Loʀᴅ, and see; and BPs 74:22listen to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to CIs 37:4reproach the living God. 18  “Truly, O Loʀᴅ, the A2 Kin 15:29; 16:9; 17:6, 24; 1 Chr 5:26kings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the AIs 2:8; 17:8; 41:24, 29work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have BIs 26:14destroyed them. 20  “Now, O Loʀᴅ our God, AIs 25:9; 33:22; 35:4deliver us from his hand that B1 Kin 18:36, 37; Ps 46:10; Is 37:16; Ezek 36:23all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, Loʀᴅ, 1So DSS and 2 Kin 19:19; M.T. omits Godare God.”

21 Then AIs 37:2Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the Loʀᴅ, the God of Israel, ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, 22 this is the word that the Loʀᴅ has spoken against him:

30 “Then this shall be the sign for you: 1Lit eatingyou will eat this year what ALev 25:5, 11grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 31  “The AIs 4:2; 10:20surviving BIs 37:4remnant of the house of Judah will again CIs 27:6take root downward and bear fruit upward. 32  “For out of Jerusalem will go forth a AIs 37:4remnant and out of Mount Zion 1Lit those who escapesurvivors. The B2 Kin 19:31; Is 9:7; 59:17; Joel 2:18; Zech 1:14zeal of the Loʀᴅ of hosts will perform this.” ’

33 “Therefore, thus says the Loʀᴅ concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield, or throw up a AJer 6:6; 32:24siege ramp against it. 34  ‘AIs 37:29By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,’ declares the Loʀᴅ. 35 ‘For I will A2 Kin 20:6; Is 31:5; 38:6defend this city to save it BIs 43:25; 48:9, 11for My own sake and for My servant David’s sake.’ ”

36 Then the A2 Kin 19:35; Is 10:12, 33, 34angel of the Loʀᴅ went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when 1Lit theymen arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were 2Lit dead bodiesdead. 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and 1Lit went and returnedreturned home and lived at AGen 10:11; Jon 1:2; 3:3; 4:11; Zeph 2:13Nineveh. 38 It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of AGen 8:4; Jer 51:27Ararat. And BEzra 4:2Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.