2 Kings 19 Then king Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

VIN⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then king Hezekiah heard that, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD. ² He sent Eliakim who was over the palace, Shebna the secretary, the elders, and the priests, all clothed in sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. ³ They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, 'This day is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. ⁴ Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all of the words of the chief commander whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to insult the living God, and he will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remainder who are left.'" ⁵ King Hezekiah's men went to Isaiah. ⁶ Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘the LORD says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. ⁷ "I am going to put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own country. I will have him assassinated in his own country."’" ⁸ The field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah. He had heard that the king left Lachish. ⁹ Sennacherib heard that King Tirhakah of Sudan was coming to fight him. Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying: ¹⁰ 'Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: “Don't let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. ¹¹ Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. And will you be delivered? ¹² "'Did the gods of the nations that my ancestors destroyed rescue Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? ¹³ Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah? ¹⁴ Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. ¹⁵ And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, saying, O LORD God of Israel, who dwellest above the cherubim, thou alone art the God unto all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth. ¹⁶ Incline your ear, the LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, the LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. ¹⁷ Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands ¹⁸ and have thrown their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, and they have destroyed them. ¹⁹ And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that You alone are the Lord God. ²⁰ Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "This is what the LORD the God of Israel says: ‘You prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria. I have heard you. ²¹ This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. ²² Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel! ²³ By your messengers you have insulted the LORD. You have claimed, "With my many chariots I ascended the heights of the mountains, including the remotest regions of Lebanon; I cut down its tall cedars and the best of its cypress trees. I entered its most remote lodging place and its most fruitful forest. ²⁴ I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt. ²⁵ Have you not heard from afar, I made it? From days of old I formed it. Now I have caused it to come, that you should make fortified cities desolate ruin heaps. ²⁶ "The inhabitants of these cities are weak, discouraged, and ashamed. They will be like plants in the field, like fresh green grass on the roofs, scorched before it grows up. ²⁷ But I know thy down-sitting, and thy going forth, and thy rage against me. ²⁸ Because your wrath against me and your words of pride have come up to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my cord in your lips, and I will make you go back by the way you came. ²⁹ “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit. ³⁰ The remainder of the house of Judah which survives will again take root below and bear fruit above. ³¹ For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion they that shall escape; the zeal of the LORD Almighty shall do this. ³² “Therefore the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria, 'He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. ³³ By the way that he came, by the same will he return and he will not come to this city, says the LORD. ³⁴ And I will defend this city to save her for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.'" ³⁵ That night, the LORD's angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. ³⁶ So Sennacherib king of Assyria brake up, and went his way, and returned,—and remained in Nineveh. ³⁷ And he will be worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and they escaped to the land of Ararat: and Esarhaddon his son will reign in his stead.