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Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.&#8217; &#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.4.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>who said to them, &#8220;Tell your master, &#8216;The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> says this: Don&#8217;t be afraid<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> because of the words you have heard, with which the king of Assyria&#8217;s attendants have blasphemed me.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.6.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>I am about to put a spirit<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.7.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> in him and he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.&#8217; &#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.7.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><h3 class="head1">Sennacherib&#8217;s Letter</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the royal spokesman heard that the king of Assyria had pulled out of Lachish,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.8.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> he left and found him fighting against Libnah.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.8.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.9.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> &#8220;He has set out to fight against you.&#8221; So when he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>&#8220;Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah: &#8216;Don&#8217;t let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> by promising that Jerusalem won&#8217;t be handed over to the king of Assyria. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the countries: they completely destroyed them. Will you be rescued? <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Did the gods of the nations<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> that my predecessors destroyed rescue them&#8239;&#8212;&#8239;Gozan,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.12.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> Haran,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.12.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> Rezeph, and the Edenites in Telassar? <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.37.13.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> Sepharvaim, Hena, or Ivvah? &#8217; &#8221;</p><h3 class="head1">Hezekiah&#8217;s Prayer</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers&#8217; hands, read it, then went up to the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>&#8217;s temple and spread it out before the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.15" /> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then Hezekiah prayed<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.15.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> to the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>:</p><blockquote class="blockindent"><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.16" /> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.16.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> you are God<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.16.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a>&#8239;&#8212;&#8239;you alone<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.16.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a>&#8239;&#8212;&#8239;of all the kingdoms of the earth.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.16.4"><span class="xrfAlphabet">d</span></a> You made the heavens and the earth.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.16.5"><span class="xrfAlphabet">e</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.17" /> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Listen closely, L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, and hear;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.17.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> open your eyes, L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, and see.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.17.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> Hear all the words that Sennacherib has sent to mock the living God.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.17.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.18" /> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.19" /> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They have thrown their gods into the fire, for they were not gods<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.19.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> but made from wood and stone<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.19.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> by human hands.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.19.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> So they have destroyed them. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.20" /> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now, L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> our God, save us from his power so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, are God<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.37.20.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.20.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a>&#8239;&#8212;&#8239;you alone.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.20.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">God&#8217;s Answer through Isaiah</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.21" /> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: &#8220;The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>, the God of Israel, says, &#8216;Because you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.22" /> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>this is the word the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> has spoken against him:</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem">Virgin Daughter Zion<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.22.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">despises you and scorns you;</p><p class="poem">Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.22.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">behind your back.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.23" /> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Who is it you have mocked<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.23.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> and blasphemed?</p><p class="poem">Against whom have you raised your voice</p><p class="poem">and lifted your eyes in pride?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.23.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">Against the Holy One of Israel!<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.23.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.24" /> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>You have mocked the Lord through your servants.</p><p class="poem">You have said, &#8220;With my many chariots<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.24.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I have gone up to the heights of the mountains,</p><p class="poem">to the far recesses of Lebanon.</p><p class="poem">I cut down its tallest cedars,</p><p class="poem">its choice cypress trees.</p><p class="poem">I came to its distant heights,</p><p class="poem">its densest forest.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.25" /> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.37.25.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">I dried up all the streams of Egypt</p><p class="poem">with the soles of my feet.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.25.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.26" /> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Have you not heard?<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.26.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I designed it long ago;</p><p class="poem">I planned it in days gone by.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.26.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">I have now brought it to pass,</p><p class="poem">and you have crushed fortified cities<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.26.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">into piles of rubble.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.27" /> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Their inhabitants have become powerless,</p><p class="poem">dismayed, and ashamed.</p><p class="poem">They are plants of the field,</p><p class="poem">tender grass,</p><p class="poem">grass on the rooftops,</p><p class="poem">blasted by the east wind.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Isaiah.37.27.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p></blockquote><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.28" /> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But I know your sitting down,</p><p class="poem">your going out and your coming in,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.28.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and your raging against me.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.29" /> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Because your raging against me</p><p class="poem">and your arrogance have reached my ears,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.29.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">I will put my hook in your nose<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.29.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="poem">and my bit in your mouth;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.29.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="poem">I will make you go back</p><p class="poem">the way you came.</p></blockquote><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.30" /> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>&#8220; &#8216;This will be the sign for you:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.30.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.31" /> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.31.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> downward and bear fruit upward. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.32" /> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For a remnant<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.32.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies will accomplish this.&#8217;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.32.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.33" /> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>&#8220;Therefore, this is what the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> says about the king of Assyria:</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem">He will not enter this city,</p><p class="poem">shoot an arrow here,</p><p class="poem">come before it with a shield,</p><p class="poem">or build up a siege ramp against it.</p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.34" /> <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He will go back</p><p class="poem">the way he came,</p><p class="poem">and he will not enter this city.</p></blockquote><p class="scripture">This is the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>&#8217;s declaration.</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.35" /> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>I will defend this city and rescue it</p><p class="poem">for my sake<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.35.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem">and for the sake of my servant David.&#8221;<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.35.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a></p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">Defeat and Death of Sennacherib</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.36" /> <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.36.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> the angel of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span><a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.36.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.37" /> <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.37.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Isaiah.37.38" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.38.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> Then his son Esar-haddon<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Isaiah.37.38.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> became king in his place.</p><br /><section id="footnotes-Isaiah.37" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Isaiah.37.13.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.13">37:13</a></span> Or <span class="italic">king of Lair</span>,</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.37.20.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.20">37:20</a></span> <span class="italic">are God</span> supplied for clarity; see v. 16</aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.37.25.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.25">37:25</a></span> DSS, 2Kg 19:24; MT omits <span class="italic">in foreign lands</span></aside><aside id="fn.Isaiah.37.27.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.27">37:27</a></span> DSS; MT reads <span class="italic">rooftops, field before standing grain</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Isaiah.37" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.1">37:1-35</a></span> 2Kg 19:1&#8211;34</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.1">37:1</a></span> Gn 37:34; 2Sm 3:31; 1Kg 21:27; Is 3:24</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.3.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.3">37:3</a></span> Is 22:5; 26:16; 33:2; Nah 1:7; Hab 3:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.3.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.3">37:3</a></span> Is 26:17&#8211;18; 66:9; Hs 13:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.4">37:4</a></span> Dt 5:26; 1Sm 17:26,36; Jr 10:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.4.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.4">37:4</a></span> Is 1:9; 46:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.6">37:6</a></span> Is 7:4; 35:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.6.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.6">37:6</a></span> Ps 44:7,13&#8211;16; Is 52:5; Rm 2:24</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.7.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.7">37:7</a></span> Nm 5:14; Is 19:14; Hs 4:12; Zch 13:2; 2Tm 1:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.7.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.7">37:7</a></span> Is 37:36&#8211;38</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.8.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.8">37:8</a></span> Jos 10:31&#8211;32</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.8.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.8">37:8</a></span> Nm 33:20; Jos 10:29</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.9.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.9">37:9</a></span> Is 18:1; 20:5</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.10">37:10</a></span> Is 36:14&#8211;15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.12">37:12</a></span> Is 36:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.12.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.12">37:12</a></span> 2Kg 17:6; 18:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.12.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.12">37:12</a></span> Gn 11:31; 12:1&#8211;4; Ac 7:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.14">37:14</a></span> Dt 22:17; 1Kg 8:22; Ezk 2:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.15.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.15">37:15</a></span> 2Ch 32:20</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.16.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.16">37:16</a></span> Ex 25:22; Nm 7:89; 1Sm 4:4; 2Sm 6:2; Ps 80:1; 99:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.16.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.16">37:16</a></span> Dt 10:17; 2Sm 7:28; Ps 86:10; 90:2; 136:2&#8211;3</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.16.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.16">37:16</a></span> 1Kg 8:39; Neh 9:6; Ps 4:8; 83:18; 86:10; Rv 15:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.16.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.16">37:16</a></span> 2Ch 36:20; Ps 68:32; Rv 11:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.16.5"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.16">37:16</a></span> Ex 20:11; Neh 9:6; Ps 146:6; Ac 4:24</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.17.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.17">37:17</a></span> 2Ch 6:40; Ps 17:6; Dn 9:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.17.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.17">37:17</a></span> Is 42:5; 45:12; Jr 10:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.17.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.17">37:17</a></span> Is 37:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.19.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.19">37:19</a></span> Dt 32:17; 2Ch 13:9; Jr 2:11; 5:7; 16:20; Hs 8:6; Ac 19:26; Gl 4:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.19.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.19">37:19</a></span> Dt 4:28; 28:36,64; 29:17; Ezk 20:32</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.19.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.19">37:19</a></span> Is 2:8,20; 17:8; 31:7; 41:24,29; 44:9&#8211;20; 46:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.20.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.20">37:20</a></span> Jos 4:24; 1Kg 8:60; 20:13; Is 45:3,6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.20.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.20">37:20</a></span> Is 37:16</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.22.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.22">37:22</a></span> Lm 2:13; Is 1:8; 3:16&#8211;17; 4:4; 52:2; 62:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.22.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.22">37:22</a></span> Jb 16:4; Ps 22:7; 109:25; Jr 18:16; Lm 2:15</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.23.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.23">37:23</a></span> Ps 74:10,18; Is 37:4; Gl 6:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.23.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.23">37:23</a></span> Is 2:11; 5:15,21</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.23.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.23">37:23</a></span> Gn 12:3; Ex 23:22</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.24.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.24">37:24</a></span> Ex 14:26&#8211;28; 15:4,19; Dt 20:1; Jos 11:4&#8211;9; 2Ch 16:8; Ps 68:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.25.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.25">37:25</a></span> Dt 11:10; 1Kg 20:10</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.26.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.26">37:26</a></span> Is 40:21,28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.26.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.26">37:26</a></span> Is 5:19; 10:5&#8211;6; 14:24&#8211;26; 22:11; 46:11; Jr 18:11; Ac 2:23; 4:27&#8211;28; 1Pt 2:8</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.26.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.26">37:26</a></span> Is 34:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.28.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.28">37:28</a></span> Ps 139:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.29.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.29">37:29</a></span> Is 10:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.29.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.29">37:29</a></span> Ezk 19:9; 29:4; 38:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.29.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.29">37:29</a></span> Is 30:28</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.30.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.30">37:30</a></span> Ex 3:12; 1Sm 2:34; 1Kg 13:3; Is 7:14; 38:7; Jr 44:29; Lk 2:12</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.31.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.31">37:31</a></span> Is 27:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.32.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.32">37:32</a></span> Ezr 9:14; Is 10:20&#8211;22</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.32.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.32">37:32</a></span> 2Kg 19:31; Is 9:7; 59:17; Jl 2:18; Zch 1:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.35.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.35">37:35</a></span> Is 43:25; 48:9,11</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.35.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.35">37:35</a></span> 1Kg 11:13,32&#8211;38; 2Kg 20:6; Ezk 34:23</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.36.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.36">37:36-38</a></span> 2Kg 19:35&#8211;37; 2Ch 32:21</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.36.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.36">37:36</a></span> Gn 16:7&#8211;11; Ex 3:2; Nm 22:22&#8211;35; Jdg 6:11&#8211;12; 2Sm 24:16; Ps 34:7</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.37.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.37">37:37</a></span> Gn 10:11; Jnh 1:2; 3:3; 4:11; Zph 2:13</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.38.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.38">37:38</a></span> Gn 8:4; Jr 51:27</aside><aside id="xrf.Isaiah.37.38.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Isaiah.37.38">37:38</a></span> Ezr 4:2</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Isaiah.37" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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