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When the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard – these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>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.”’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them: <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed – the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar – rescued by their gods? <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’s temple and spread it out before the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Hezekiah prayed before the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>: “<span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Pay attention, <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, and hear! Open your eyes, <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God! <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>It is true, <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now, O <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>, are the only God.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> God of Israel says: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says about him:</p><p class="poetry2">“The virgin daughter Zion</p><p class="poetry2">despises you, she makes fun of you;</p><p class="poetry2">Daughter Jerusalem</p><p class="poetry2">shakes her head after you.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at?</p><p class="poetry2">At whom have you shouted,</p><p class="poetry2">and looked so arrogantly?</p><p class="poetry2">At the Holy One of Israel!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Through your messengers you taunted the sovereign master,</p><p class="poetry2">‘With my many chariots</p><p class="poetry2">I climbed up the high mountains,</p><p class="poetry2">the slopes of Lebanon.</p><p class="poetry2">I cut down its tall cedars,</p><p class="poetry2">and its best evergreens.</p><p class="poetry2">I invaded its most remote regions,</p><p class="poetry2">its thickest woods.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I dug wells and drank</p><p class="poetry2">water in foreign lands.</p><p class="poetry2">With the soles of my feet I dried up</p><p class="poetry2">all the rivers of Egypt.’</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Certainly you must have heard!</p><p class="poetry2">Long ago I worked it out,</p><p class="poetry2">In ancient times I planned it;</p><p class="poetry2">and now I am bringing it to pass.</p><p class="poetry2">The plan is this:</p><p class="poetry2">Fortified cities will crash</p><p class="poetry2">into heaps of ruins.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Their residents are powerless,</p><p class="poetry2">they are terrified and ashamed.</p><p class="poetry2">They are as short-lived as plants in the field,</p><p class="poetry2">or green vegetation.</p><p class="poetry2">They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops</p><p class="poetry2">when it is scorched by the east wind.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I know where you live,</p><p class="poetry2">and everything you do.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Because you rage against me,</p><p class="poetry2">and the uproar you create has reached my ears;</p><p class="poetry2">I will put my hook in your nose,</p><p class="poetry2">and my bridle between your lips,</p><p class="poetry2">and I will lead you back the way</p><p class="poetry2">you came.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For a remnant will leave Jerusalem;</p><p class="poetry2">survivors will come out of Mount Zion.</p><p class="poetry2">The intense devotion of the sovereign <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> to his people will accomplish this.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>So this is what the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span> says about the king of Assyria:</p><p class="poetry2">“He will not enter this city,</p><p class="poetry2">nor will he shoot an arrow here.</p><p class="poetry2">He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors,</p><p class="poetry2">nor will he build siege works against it.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>He will go back the way he came.</p><p class="poetry2">He will not enter this city,” says the <span class="smallcaps">Lord.</span></p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>That very night the <span class="smallcaps">Lord</span>’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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>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.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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