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Texts -- 2 Kings 19:6-37 (NET)

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19:6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this : ‘This is what the Lord says : “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. 19:7 Look , I will take control of his mind ; he will receive a report and return to his own land . I will cut him down with a sword in his own land .”’” 19:8 When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish , he left and went to Libnah , where the king was campaigning. 19:9 The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah , ordering them: 19:10 “Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this : ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says , “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria .” 19:11 Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands . Do you really think you will be rescued ? 19:12 Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan , Haran , Rezeph , and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods ? 19:13 Where are the king of Hamath , the king of Arpad , and the king of Lair, Sepharvaim , Hena , and Ivvah ?’” 19:14 Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord’s temple and spread it out before the Lord . 19:15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord : “Lord God of Israel , who is enthroned on the cherubs ! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth . You made the sky and the earth . 19:16 Pay attention , Lord , and hear ! Open your eyes , Lord , and observe ! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God ! 19:17 It is true , Lord , that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands . 19:18 They have burned the gods of the nations , for they are not really gods , but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone . That is why the Assyrians could destroy them . 19:19 Now , O Lord our God , rescue us from his power , so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you , Lord , are the only God .” 19:20 Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah : “This is what the Lord God of Israel says : ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria . 19:21 This is what the Lord says about him: “The virgin daughter Zion despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you. 19:22 Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted , and looked so arrogantly ? At the Holy One of Israel ! 19:23 Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master, ‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains , the slopes of Lebanon . I cut down its tall cedars , and its best evergreens . I invaded its most remote regions , its thickest woods . 19:24 I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt .’ 19:25 Certainly you must have heard ! Long ago I worked it out, In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass . The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins . 19:26 Their residents are powerless , they are terrified and ashamed . They are as short-lived as plants in the field , or green vegetation . They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind . 19:27 I know where you live , and everything you do. 19:28 Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears ; I will put my hook in your nose , and my bridle between your lips , and I will lead you back the way you came .” 19:29 This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild , and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops ; you will plant vines and consume their produce . 19:30 Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit . 19:31 For a remnant will leave Jerusalem ; survivors will come out of Mount Zion . The intense devotion of the sovereign Lord to his people will accomplish this . 19:32 So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria : “He will not enter this city , nor will he shoot an arrow here . He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors , nor will he build siege works against it. 19:33 He will go back the way he came . He will not enter this city ,” says the Lord . 19:34 I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant .’” 19:35 That very night the Lord’s messenger went out and killed 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp . When they got up early the next morning , there were all the corpses . 19:36 So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh . 19:37 One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch , his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword . They escaped to the land of Ararat ; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king .

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