II Kings Chapter 19

II Kings Chapter 19
1 And when king Hezekiah heard it, he
rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and
came into the house of the Lord,
2 And sent Eliakim which was the
steward of the house, and Shebna the
chancellor, and the elders of the priests
clothed in sackcloth to Isaiah the prophet
the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, This day is a day of
tribulation and of rebuke, and
blasphemy: for the children are come to
the birth, and there is no strength to bring
forth.
4 If so be the Lord thy God hath heard
all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the
king of Assyria his master hath sent to
rail on the living God, and to reproach
him with words which the Lord thy God
hath heard, then lift thou up thy prayer
for the remnant that are left.
5 So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, So shall ye
say to your master, Thus saith the Lord,
Be not afraid of the words which thou
hast heard, wherewith the servants of the
king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast upon him,
and he shall hear a noise, and return to
his own land: and I will cause him to
fall by the sword in his own land. 8 So
Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria fighting against Libnah: for he
had heard that he was departed from
Lachish.
9 He heard also men say of Tirhakah
king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out
to fight against thee: he therefore
departed and sent other messengers unto
Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king
of Judah, and say, Let not thy God
deceive thee in whom thou trustest,
saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered
into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the
kings of Assyria have done to all lands,
how they have destroyed them: and shalt
thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the heathen
delivered them which my fathers have
destroyed? As Gozan, and Haran, and
Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which
were in Thelasar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the
king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
Shepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?
14 So Hezekiah received the letter of the
hand of the messengers, and read it: and
Hezekiah went up into the house of the
Lord, and Hezekiah spread it before the
Lord.
15 And Hezekiah prayed before the
Lord, and said, O Lord God of Israel,
which dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art very God alone over all the
kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made the
heaven and the earth. 16 Lord, bow
down thine ear, and hear: Lord open
thine eyes and behold, and hear the
words of Sennacherib, who hath sent to
blaspheme the living God. 17 Truth it is,
Lord, that the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And have set fire on their gods: for
they were no gods, but the work of man's
hands, even wood and stone: therefore
they destroyed them. 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, O Lord, art only God.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to
Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, I have heard that which
thou hast prayed me, concerning
Sennacherib king of Assyria.
21 This is the word that the Lord hath
spoken against him, O virgin, daughter of
Zion, he hath despised thee, and laughed
thee to scorn: O daughter of Jerusalem,
he hath shaken his head at thee.
22 Whom hast thou railed on? And
whom hast thou blasphemed? And
against whom hast thou exalted thy
voice, and lifted up thine eyes on
high? Even against the Holy one of
Israel.
23 By thy messengers thou hast railed on
the Lord, and said, By the multitude of
my chariots I am come up to the top of
the mountains, by the sides of Lebanon,
and will cut down the high cedars
thereof, and the fair fir trees thereof, and
I will go into the lodging of his borders,
and into the forest of his Carmel.
24 I have digged, and drunk the waters
of others, and with the plant of my feet
have I dried all the floods closed in.
25 Hast thou not heard, how I have of
old time made it, and have formed it
long ago? And should I now bring it, that
it should be destroyed, and laid on
ruinous heaps, as cities defensed?
26 Whose inhabitants have small power,
and are afraid, and confounded: they are
like the grass of the field, and green
herb, or grass on the house tops, or as
corn blasted before it be grown.
27 I know thy dwelling, yea, thy going
out, and thy coming in, and thy fury
against me.
28 And because thou ragest against me,
and thy tumult is come up to mine ears, I
will put mine hook in thy nostrils, and
my bridle in thy lips, and will bring thee
back again the same way thou camest.
29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, O
Hezekiah, Thou shalt eat this year such
things as grow of themselves, and the
next year such as grow without sowing,
and the third year sow ye and reap, and
plant vineyards, and eat the fruits
thereof.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah, shall again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 For out of Jerusalem shall go a
remnant, and some that shall escape out
of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of
hosts shall do this.
32 Wherefore thus saith the Lord,
concerning the king of Assyria, He shall
not enter into this city, nor shoot an
arrow there, nor come before it with
shield, nor cast a mount against it:
33 But he shall return the way he came,
and shall not come into this city, saith
the Lord.
34 For I will defend this city to save it
for mine own sake, and for David my
servant's sake.
35 And the same night the angel of the
Lord went out and smote in the camp of
Assyria an hundred fourscore and five
thousand: so when they rose early in the
morning, behold, they were all dead
corpses.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria
departed, and went his way, and
returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.
37 And as he was in the temple
worshiping Nisroch his god,
Adramelech and Sharezer his sons slew
him with the sword: and they escaped
into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon
his son reigned in his stead.