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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 NIV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NIV</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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/2_kings/19.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jerusalem’s Deliverance Foretold</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>It may be that the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the <span class="name">Lord</span> your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>When King Hezekiah’s officials came to Isaiah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says: Do not be afraid of what you have heard—those words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.’ ”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the field commander heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now Sennacherib received a report that Tirhakah, the king of Cush, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="That is, the upper Nile region">a</a></sup></span> was marching out to fight against him. So he again sent messengers to Hezekiah with this word: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Say to Hezekiah king of Judah: Do not let the god you depend on deceive you when he says, ‘Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries, destroying them completely. And will you be delivered? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Did the gods of the nations that were destroyed by my predecessors deliver them—the gods of Gozan, Harran, Rezeph and the people of Eden who were in Tel Assar? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad? Where are the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah?”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Hezekiah’s Prayer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> and spread it out before the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prayed to the <span class="name">Lord</span>: “<span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Give ear, <span class="name">Lord</span>, and hear; open your eyes, <span class="name">Lord</span>, and see; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to ridicule the living God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“It is true, <span class="name">Lord</span>, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Now, <span class="name">Lord</span> our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone, <span class="name">Lord</span>, are God.”</p> <p class="sectionhead">Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib’s Fall</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span>, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>This is the word that the <span class="name">Lord</span> has spoken against him:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“ ‘Virgin Daughter Zion</p><p class="line2">despises you and mocks you.</p><p class="line1">Daughter Jerusalem</p><p class="line2">tosses her head as you flee.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed?</p><p class="line2">Against whom have you raised your voice</p><p class="line1">and lifted your eyes in pride?</p><p class="line2">Against the Holy One of Israel!</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>By your messengers</p><p class="line2">you have ridiculed the Lord.</p><p class="line1">And you have said,</p><p class="line2">“With my many chariots</p><p class="line1">I have ascended the heights of the mountains,</p><p class="line2">the utmost heights of Lebanon.</p><p class="line1">I have cut down its tallest cedars,</p><p class="line2">the choicest of its junipers.</p><p class="line1">I have reached its remotest parts,</p><p class="line2">the finest of its forests.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I have dug wells in foreign lands</p><p class="line2">and drunk the water there.</p><p class="line1">With the soles of my feet</p><p class="line2">I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“ ‘Have you not heard?</p><p class="line2">Long ago I ordained it.</p><p class="line1">In days of old I planned it;</p><p class="line2">now I have brought it to pass,</p><p class="line1">that you have turned fortified cities</p><p class="line2">into piles of stone.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Their people, drained of power,</p><p class="line2">are dismayed and put to shame.</p><p class="line1">They are like plants in the field,</p><p class="line2">like tender green shoots,</p><p class="line1">like grass sprouting on the roof,</p><p class="line2">scorched before it grows up.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“ ‘But I know where you are</p><p class="line2">and when you come and go</p><p class="line2">and how you rage against me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Because you rage against me</p><p class="line2">and because your insolence has reached my ears,</p><p class="line1">I will put my hook in your nose</p><p class="line2">and my bit in your mouth,</p><p class="line1">and I will make you return</p><p class="line2">by the way you came.’</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“This year you will eat what grows by itself,</p><p class="line2">and the second year what springs from that.</p><p class="line1">But in the third year sow and reap,</p><p class="line2">plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah</p><p class="line2">will take root below and bear fruit above.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,</p><p class="line2">and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.</p></div><p class="pcontinued">“The zeal of the <span class="name">Lord</span> Almighty will accomplish this.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>“Therefore this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says concerning the king of Assyria:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“ ‘He will not enter this city</p><p class="line2">or shoot an arrow here.</p><p class="line1">He will not come before it with shield</p><p class="line2">or build a siege ramp against it.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>By the way that he came he will return;</p><p class="line2">he will not enter this city,</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>I will defend this city and save it,</p><p class="line2">for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>That night the angel of the <span class="name">Lord</span> went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/2_kings/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotebot">That is, the upper Nile region</span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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