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2 Kings 19:1-37 — Jerusalem's Deliverance; Sennacherib's Death

2Kgs.19.1-37

¹When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth , and went into the house of the LORD. ²He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, all covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet son of Amoz. ³They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. ⁴Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore offer up a prayer for the remnant that remains." ⁵So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ⁶Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master: Thus says the LORD, 'Do not be afraid because of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ⁷Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he will hear news and return to his own land, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'" ⁸Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. ⁹When he heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he again sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰“Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying, ”Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria." ¹¹Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, devoting them to destruction. And will you be delivered? ¹²Did the gods of the nations that my fathers destroyed deliver them—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? ¹³Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivvah?'" ¹⁴Hezekiah took the letters from the hand of the messengers and read them. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread them out before the LORD . ¹⁵And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said, "O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. ¹⁶Incline your ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. ¹⁷Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, ¹⁸and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods, but the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they destroyed them. ¹⁹And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand , so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God." ²⁰Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Because you have prayed to me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard. ²¹This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: 'The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you . ²²Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! ²³By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the remotest parts of Lebanon. I will cut down its tall cedars, its finest cypresses, and I will come to its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest. ²⁴I have dug wells and drunk foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the streams of Egypt.' ²⁵Have you not heard? Long ago I made it; from ancient days I formed it. Now I have brought it to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins. ²⁶Their inhabitants were weak; they were dismayed and put to shame. They were like the grass of the field and green plants, like grass on the housetops, scorched before it is grown. ²⁷But I know your sitting down, your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. ²⁸Because your raging against me and your arrogance have come up into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way you came. ²⁹"And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows by itself, and in the second year what springs up from that; but in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. ³⁰And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For out of Jerusalem a remnant shall go forth, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts shall accomplish this. ³²"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: 'He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with a shield, nor cast up a siege ramp against it. ³³By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the LORD. ³⁴For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.'" ³⁵And that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead bodies. ³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and remained at Nineveh. ³⁷And it happened, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him down with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place.

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4/11/2026

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