2 Kings 19:29-37 ▼

29 And this [is] the sign to you, || Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, || And in the second year the self-produced, || And in the third year you sow, and reap, || And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

30 And it has continued—The escaped of the house of Judah || That has been left—to take root beneath, || And has made fruit upward.

31 For a remnant goes out from Jerusalem, || And an escape from Mount Zion; The zeal of YHWH [of Hosts] does this.

32 Therefore, thus said YHWH, || Concerning the king of Asshur: He does not come into this city, || Nor does he shoot an arrow there, || Nor does he come before it with shield, || Nor does he pour out a mound against it.

33 In the way that he comes in—In it he turns back, || And to this city he does not come in, || A declaration of YHWH—

34 And I have covered over this city, || To save it for My own sake, || And for the sake of My servant David.”

35 And it comes to pass, in that night, that a messenger of YHWH goes out, and strikes one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Asshur, and they rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them [are] dead corpses.

36 And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeys, and goes, and turns back, and dwells in Nineveh;

37 and it comes to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of his god Nisroch, and [his sons] Adramelech and Sharezar have struck him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and his son Esar-Haddon reigns in his stead.