2 Kings 19:22-37 ▼

22 Whom have you reproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice, and lifted up on high your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

23 By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: “By the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the limits of Lebanon. And I will cut down the height of its cedars, the choice of its cypresses, and I will enter the ends of its borders, the forest of its orchard.

24 I have dug and I have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the soles of my feet all the brooks of Egypt.”

25 Did you not hear? Long ago I made it, and from ancient times I formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should be for crushing into heaps of ruins fortified cities.

26 Therefore their dwellers are feeble of hand; they are dismayed and ashamed. They were as the grass of the field, and the greenness of the tender grass, as the grass of the roofs, and blighted before the face of standing grain.

27 And your dwelling place, and Your going out, and your coming in I know—and your raging against Me.

28 Because your raging against me and your tumult have come up to My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way in which you came.’

29 And this is a sign to you: You shall eat this year what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from the same. And in the third year you will sow and reap; and you will plant vineyards and eat their fruits.

30 And it will continue—the escaped of the house of Judah, the remnant, a root downward, and it will make fruit upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH of Hosts will do this.

32 Therefore thus says YHWH concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He shall not come into this city, nor will he shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor build a mound against it.

33 By the way that he came in he will return, and into this city he shall not come,’ a declaration of YHWH.

34 ‘For I will cover over this city to save it for My own sake, and for the sake of David My servant.’”

35 And it came to pass on that night that the angel of YHWH went out, and he struck in the camp of Assyria a hundred eighty-five thousand; and they rose early in the morning, and behold, all were dead corpses!

36 And Sennacherib king of Assyria pulled out and went away, and he returned and dwelt in Nineveh.

37 And it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.