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So lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives in this city.”<a href="#ftn" title="37:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in this city">b</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-5.htm">5</a>That’s why King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah. Isaiah Responds to Hezekiah<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-6.htm">6</a>“Here is what to tell your master,” Isaiah told them. “This is what the LORD says: ‘Don’t be afraid of the words you’ve heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have insulted me. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-7.htm">7</a>Watch this! I’m going to place an attitude<a href="#ftn" title="37:7 Or to put a spirit">c</a> within him,<a href="#ftn" title="37:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read put a spirit in him">d</a> so that when he hears a certain report, he’ll return to his own country. Then I’ll have him cut down by the sword in his own land.”<a href="#ftn" title="37:5-7 So MT LXX 1QIsaa corrector; 1QIsaa lacks vss. 5-7">e</a> Sennacherib Retreats<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-8.htm">8</a>So the field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, since he had heard that the king of Assyria<a href="#ftn" title="37:8 Lit. that he">f</a> had left Lachish. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-9.htm">9</a>Now King Sennacherib<a href="#ftn" title="37:9 Lit. Now he">g</a> had received this report concerning King Tirhakah of Cush: “He has marched out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he returned and<a href="#ftn" title="37:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; cf. 2Kgs 19:9 MT; the Heb. lacks returned and">h</a> sent messengers to Hezekiah: <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-10.htm">10</a>“Say this to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Don’t let your God on whom you depend deceive you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-11.htm">11</a>Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all countries, dooming them to destruction. So do you think you will be saved? <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-12.htm">12</a>Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my ancestors save them—the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden, who were in Tel-assar? <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-13.htm">13</a>Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sephar-vaim, or of Hena, or of Ivvah, or of Samaria?’”<a href="#ftn" title="37:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack or of Samaria">i</a> Hezekiah Prays<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-14.htm">14</a>Hezekiah received the letters from the messengers, and read them.<a href="#ftn" title="37:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read it">j</a> Then he<a href="#ftn" title="37:14 Lit. Hezekiah">k</a> went up to the LORD’s Temple and spread the letters<a href="#ftn" title="37:14 Lit. it">l</a> in front of the LORD. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-15.htm">15</a>Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-16.htm">16</a>“O LORD of the Heavenly Armies, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you alone are the God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made heaven and earth. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-17.htm">17</a>Extend your ear, LORD, and listen! Open your eyes, LORD, and look! Listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-18.htm">18</a>It is true, LORD, that Assyrian kings have devastated all these countries,<a href="#ftn" title="37:18 So 1QIsaa; MT reads countries and their land; some MTmss read nations and their land">m</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-19.htm">19</a>and have thrown their gods into the fire—but they are not gods, but rather the products<a href="#ftn" title="37:19 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads work">n</a> of human hands, mere wood and stone. So the Assyrians<a href="#ftn" title="37:19 Lit. So they">o</a> destroyed them. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-20.htm">20</a>So now, LORD our God, save us from his oppressive<a href="#ftn" title="37:20 1QIsaa LXX MT lack oppressive">p</a> hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God.”<a href="#ftn" title="37:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads alone are LORD; LXX reads alone are God">q</a> God’s Answer<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-21.htm">21</a>Then Amoz’s son Isaiah sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says, to whom you prayed<a href="#ftn" title="37:21 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because you prayed to me; cf. LXX">r</a> concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-22.htm">22</a>This is the message that the LORD has spoken in opposition to him: “‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem— she tosses her head behind you as you flee. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-23.htm">23</a>Whom have you insulted and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-24.htm">24</a>By your messengers<a href="#ftn" title="37:24 Lit. servants">s</a> you have insulted the LORD, and you have said, “With my many chariots I have climbed the heights of mountains, the utmost heights of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, the choicest of its pines; I reached its remotest heights, the most verdant of its forests. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-25.htm">25</a>I myself dug wells<a href="#ftn" title="37:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads dug; LXX reads appointed">t</a> and drank foreign<a href="#ftn" title="37:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack foreign">u</a> waters; with the soles of my feet I dried up all the streams of Egypt.” <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-26.htm">26</a>“‘Didn’t you hear how in the distant past I decided to do it, how<a href="#ftn" title="37:26 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and how">v</a> I planned from days of old? Now I’ve made it happen— that fortified cities become devastated, besieged heaps.<a href="#ftn" title="37:26 So 1QIsaa; MT reads you should make fortified cities crash into ruined heaps">w</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-27.htm">27</a>Their inhabitants are devoid of power, and are terrified and put to shame. They’ve become like plants in the field, like<a href="#ftn" title="37:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and like">x</a> green shoots, like grass on rooftops, scorched by the east wind.<a href="#ftn" title="37:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and a field before the standing grain">y</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-28.htm">28</a>“‘I know when you rise up and<a href="#ftn" title="37:28 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack when you rise up and">z</a> when you sit down, your comings and goings— and how you’ve become enraged at me. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-29.htm">29</a>Your insolence<a href="#ftn" title="37:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because your raging against me and your insolence; cf. LXX">aa</a> has reached my ears, so I’ll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth,<a href="#ftn" title="37:29 Lit. lips; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lip">bb</a> and I’ll make you turn back on the road by which you came. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-30.htm">30</a>“And this will be your sign, Hezekiah:<a href="#ftn" title="37:30 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks Hezekiah">cc</a> Eat this year what grows on its own, and in the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-31.htm">31</a>Then the ones belonging to the house of Judah who have escaped will gather,<a href="#ftn" title="37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads be increased">dd</a> and those who are found<a href="#ftn" title="37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and the remainder; cf. LXX">ee</a> will take root downward and bear fruit upward. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-32.htm">32</a>For a remnant will come out of Zion,<a href="#ftn" title="37:32 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT LXX read Jerusalem ">ff</a> and a band of survivors from Jerusalem.<a href="#ftn" title="37:32 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT LXX read Mount Zion ">gg</a> The zeal of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies will accomplish this. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-33.htm">33</a>“Therefore this what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: ‘He won’t enter this city, build up a siege ramp against it, shoot an arrow here, or threaten it with a shield.<a href="#ftn" title="37:33 So 1QIsaa; MT reads or shoot an arrow here, or threaten it with a shield, or build up a siege ramp against it">hh</a> <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-34.htm">34</a>By the same way that he came, he will return; he won’t enter this city,’ declares the LORD, <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-35.htm">35</a>‘because I will defend this city and deliver<a href="#ftn" title="37:35 Or save">ii</a> it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David!’” Sennacherib is Defeated<a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-36.htm">36</a>After this, the angel of the LORD went out and put to death 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When Hezekiah’s army<a href="#ftn" title="37:36 Lit. When the people">jj</a> awakened in the morning—there were all the dead bodies! <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-37.htm">37</a>King Sennacherib broke camp, retreated, returned home to Nineveh, and remained there. <a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/37-38.htm">38</a>Later, while he was worshiping in<a href="#ftn" title="37:38 So 1QIsaa LXX; the Heb. lacks in">kk</a> the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with swords and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then Sennacherib’s<a href="#ftn" title="37:38 Lit. his">ll</a> son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><A name="ftn"></a>Footnotes: a 37:1 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the king Hezekiah b 37:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in this city c 37:7 Or to put a spirit d 37:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read put a spirit in him e 37:5-7 So MT LXX 1QIsaa corrector; 1QIsaa lacks vss. 5-7 f 37:8 Lit. that he g 37:9 Lit. Now he h 37:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; cf. 2Kgs 19:9 MT; the Heb. lacks returned and i 37:13 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack or of Samaria j 37:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read it k 37:14 Lit. Hezekiah l 37:14 Lit. it m 37:18 So 1QIsaa; MT reads countries and their land; some MTmss read nations and their land n 37:19 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads work o 37:19 Lit. So they p 37:20 1QIsaa LXX MT lack oppressive q 37:20 So 1QIsaa; MT reads alone are LORD; LXX reads alone are God r 37:21 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because you prayed to me; cf. LXX s 37:24 Lit. servants t 37:25 So 1QIsaa; MT reads dug; LXX reads appointed u 37:25 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack foreign v 37:26 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and how w 37:26 So 1QIsaa; MT reads you should make fortified cities crash into ruined heaps x 37:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and like y 37:27 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and a field before the standing grain z 37:28 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack when you rise up and aa 37:29 So 1QIsaa; MT reads because your raging against me and your insolence; cf. LXX bb 37:29 Lit. lips; so 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads lip cc 37:30 So 1QIsaa; the Heb. lacks Hezekiah dd 37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads be increased ee 37:31 So 1QIsaa; MT reads and the remainder; cf. LXX ff 37:32 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT LXX read Jerusalem gg 37:32 So 1QIsaa; 4QIsab MT LXX read Mount Zion hh 37:33 So 1QIsaa; MT reads or shoot an arrow here, or threaten it with a shield, or build up a siege ramp against it ii 37:35 Or save jj 37:36 Lit. 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