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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>2 Kings 19 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/2_kings/19.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/2_kings/19-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</a> > 2 Kings 19</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../2_kings/18.htm" title="2 Kings 18">◄</a> 2 Kings 19 <a href="../2_kings/20.htm" title="2 Kings 20">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">The King Asks Isaiah's Advice</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="ISA 37:1-7">Isaiah 37.1-7</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_1"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.1" class="v12_19_1">1</span>As soon as King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes in grief, put on sackcloth, and went to the Temple of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v12_19_2"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.2" class="v12_19_2">2</span>He sent Eliakim, the official in charge of the palace, Shebna, the court secretary, and the senior priests to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. They also were wearing sackcloth. </span><span class="v12_19_3"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.3" class="v12_19_3">3</span>This is the message which he told them to give Isaiah: “Today is a day of suffering; we are being punished and are in disgrace. We are like a woman who is ready to give birth, but is too weak to do it. </span><span class="v12_19_4"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.4" class="v12_19_4">4</span>The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the <span class="nd">Lord</span> your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_5"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.5" class="v12_19_5">5</span>When Isaiah received King Hezekiah's message, </span><span class="v12_19_6"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.6" class="v12_19_6">6</span>he sent back this answer: “The <span class="nd">Lord</span> tells you not to let the Assyrians frighten you with their claims that he cannot save you. </span><span class="v12_19_7"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.7" class="v12_19_7">7</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> will cause the emperor to hear a rumor that will make him go back to his own country, and the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will have him killed there.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Assyrians Send Another Threat</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="ISA 37:8-20">Isaiah 37.8-20</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_8"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.8" class="v12_19_8">8</span>The Assyrian official learned that the emperor had left Lachish and was fighting against the nearby city of Libnah; so he went there to consult him. </span><span class="v12_19_9"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.9" class="v12_19_9">9</span>Word reached the Assyrians that the Egyptian army, led by King Tirhakah of Ethiopia,<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.19.9!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> was coming to attack them. When the emperor heard this, he sent a letter to King Hezekiah of Judah </span><span class="v12_19_10"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.10" class="v12_19_10">10</span>to tell him, “The god you are trusting in has told you that you will not fall into my hands, but don't let that deceive you. </span><span class="v12_19_11"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.11" class="v12_19_11">11</span>You have heard what an Assyrian emperor does to any country he decides to destroy. Do you think that you can escape? </span><span class="v12_19_12"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.12" class="v12_19_12">12</span>My ancestors destroyed the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and killed the people of Betheden who lived in Telassar, and none of their gods could save them. </span><span class="v12_19_13"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.13" class="v12_19_13">13</span>Where are the kings of the cities of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_14"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.14" class="v12_19_14">14</span>King Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went to the Temple, placed the letter there in the presence of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, </span><span class="v12_19_15"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.15" class="v12_19_15">15</span><a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.19.15!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> and prayed, “O <span class="nd">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, seated on your throne above the winged creatures, you alone are God, ruling all the kingdoms of the world. You created the earth and the sky. </span><span class="v12_19_16"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.16" class="v12_19_16">16</span>Now, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God. </span><span class="v12_19_17"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.17" class="v12_19_17">17</span>We all know, <span class="nd">Lord</span>, that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate, </span><span class="v12_19_18"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.18" class="v12_19_18">18</span>and burned up their gods—which were no gods at all, only images of wood and stone made by human hands. </span><span class="v12_19_19"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.19" class="v12_19_19">19</span>Now, <span class="nd">Lord</span> our God, rescue us from the Assyrians, so that all the nations of the world will know that only you, O <span class="nd">Lord</span>, are God.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Isaiah's Message to the King</h3><h5 class="r">(<ref loc="ISA 37:21-38">Isaiah 37.21-38</ref>)</h5><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_20"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.20" class="v12_19_20">20</span>Then Isaiah sent a message telling King Hezekiah that in answer to the king's prayer </span><span class="v12_19_21"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.21" class="v12_19_21">21</span>the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had said, “The city of Jerusalem laughs at you, Sennacherib, and makes fun of you. </span><span class="v12_19_22"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.22" class="v12_19_22">22</span>Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel. </span><span class="v12_19_23"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.23" class="v12_19_23">23</span>You sent your messengers to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests. </span><span class="v12_19_24"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.24" class="v12_19_24">24</span>You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_25"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.25" class="v12_19_25">25</span>“Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble. </span><span class="v12_19_26"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.26" class="v12_19_26">26</span>The people who lived there were powerless; they were frightened and stunned. They were like grass in a field or weeds growing on a roof when the hot east wind blasts them.<a href="#fn" id="link_2Kgs.19.26!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_27"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.27" class="v12_19_27">27</span>“But I know everything about you, what you do and where you go. I know how you rage against me. </span><span class="v12_19_28"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.28" class="v12_19_28">28</span>I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth, and take you back by the same road you came.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_29"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.29" class="v12_19_29">29</span>Then Isaiah said to King Hezekiah, “Here is a sign of what will happen. This year and next you will have only wild grain to eat, but the following year you will be able to plant your grain and harvest it, and plant vines and eat grapes. </span><span class="v12_19_30"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.30" class="v12_19_30">30</span>Those in Judah who survive will flourish like plants that send roots deep into the ground and produce fruit. </span><span class="v12_19_31"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.31" class="v12_19_31">31</span>There will be people in Jerusalem and on Mount Zion who will survive, because the <span class="nd">Lord</span> is determined to make this happen.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_32"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.32" class="v12_19_32">32</span>“And this is what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has said about the Assyrian emperor: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot a single arrow against it. No soldiers with shields will come near the city, and no siege mounds will be built around it. </span><span class="v12_19_33"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.33" class="v12_19_33">33</span>He will go back by the same road he came, without entering this city. I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have spoken. </span><span class="v12_19_34"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.34" class="v12_19_34">34</span>I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v12_19_35"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.35" class="v12_19_35">35</span>That night an angel of the <span class="nd">Lord</span> went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead! </span><span class="v12_19_36"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.36" class="v12_19_36">36</span>Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh. </span><span class="v12_19_37"><span class="reftext" id="2Kgs.19.37" class="v12_19_37">37</span>One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords and then escaped to the land of Ararat. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon, succeeded him as emperor.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.9: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Cush: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">19.26: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Probable text </char><char style="fq" closed="false">when the hot east wind blasts them; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">blasted before they are grown.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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