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Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.” <A name="6"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="9"></a><p class="hdg">Sennacherib’s Blasphemous Letter<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/19.htm#8">2 Kings 19:8–13</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah. <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush:<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> “He has set out to fight against you.” <p class="reg"> On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: <p class="tab1stline">‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> Will you then be spared? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Hezekiah’s Prayer<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/19.htm#14">2 Kings 19:14–19</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: <A name="17"></a><p class="tab1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. <A name="19"></a><p class="tab1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands. <A name="21"></a><p class="tab1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span>” <A name="22"></a><p class="hdg">Sennacherib’s Fall Prophesied<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/19.htm#20">2 Kings 19:20–34</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: <p class="indent1stline">‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion <p class="indent2"> despises you and mocks you; <p class="indent1"> the Daughter of Jerusalem <p class="indent2"> shakes her head behind you. <A name="24"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? <p class="indent2"> Against whom have you raised your voice <p class="indent1"> and lifted your eyes in pride? <p class="indent2"> Against the Holy One of Israel! <A name="25"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, <p class="indent2"> and you have said: <p class="indent1">“With my many chariots <p class="indent2"> I have ascended <p class="indent1"> to the heights of the mountains, <p class="indent2"> to the remote peaks of Lebanon. <p class="indent1"> I have cut down its tallest cedars, <p class="indent2"> the finest of its cypresses.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> <p class="indent1"> I have reached its farthest heights, <p class="indent2"> the densest of its forests. <A name="26"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I have dug wells <p class="indent2"> and drunk foreign<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span> waters. <p class="indent1"> With the soles of my feet <p class="indent2"> I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.” <A name="27"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Have you not heard? <p class="indent2"> Long ago I ordained it; <p class="indent1"> in days of old I planned it. <p class="indent2"> Now I have brought it to pass, <p class="indent1"> that you should crush fortified cities <p class="indent2"> into piles of rubble. <A name="28"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, <p class="indent2"> are dismayed and ashamed. <p class="indent1"> They are like plants in the field, <p class="indent2"> tender green shoots, <p class="indent1"> grass on the rooftops, <p class="indent2"> scorched<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">f</a></span> before it is grown. <A name="29"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But I know your sitting down, <p class="indent2"> your going out and coming in, <p class="indent2"> and your raging against Me. <A name="30"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Because your rage and arrogance against Me <p class="indent2"> have reached My ears, <p class="indent1"> I will put My hook in your nose <p class="indent2"> and My bit in your mouth; <p class="indent1"> I will send you back <p class="indent2"> the way you came.’ <A name="31"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: <p class="indent1stline"> This year you will eat <p class="indent2"> what grows on its own, <p class="indent1"> and in the second year <p class="indent2"> what springs from the same. <p class="indent1"> But in the third year you will sow and reap; <p class="indent2"> you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. <A name="32"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah <p class="indent2"> will again take root below <p class="indent2"> and bear fruit above. <A name="33"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, <p class="indent2"> and survivors from Mount Zion. <p class="indent1"> The zeal of the LORD of Hosts <p class="indent2"> will accomplish this. <A name="34"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: <p class="indent1stline">‘He will not enter this city <p class="indent2"> or shoot an arrow into it. <p class="indent1"> He will not come before it with a shield <p class="indent2"> or build up a siege ramp against it. <A name="35"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>He will go back the way he came, <p class="indent2"> and he will not enter this city,’ <p class="selah"> declares the LORD. <A name="36"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>‘I will defend this city <p class="indent2"> and save it <p class="indent1"> for My own sake <p class="indent2"> and for the sake of My servant David.’<span class="thinq"> </span>” <A name="37"></a><p class="hdg">Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../2_kings/19.htm#35">2 Kings 19:35–37</a>; <a href ="../2_chronicles/32.htm#20">2 Chronicles 32:20–23</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">g</a></span> the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! <A name="38"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. <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 put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> That is, the upper Nile region<br><span class="fnverse">11</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> Forms of the Hebrew <i>cherem</i><span class="thin"> </span> refer to the giving over of things or persons, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> DSS (see also <a href="../2_kings/19.htm#19">2 Kings 19:19</a>); MT <i>You alone are the LORD</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Or <i>pines</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>junipers</i><span class="thin"> </span> or <i>firs</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> DSS (see also <a href="../2_kings/19.htm#24">2 Kings 19:24</a>); MT does not include <i>foreign</i><span class="thin"> </span>.<br><span class="fnverse">27</span> <span class="footnotesbot">f</span> DSS, some MT manuscripts, and some LXX manuscripts (see also <a href="../2_kings/19.htm#26">2 Kings 19:26</a>); most MT manuscripts <i>on the rooftops and terraced fields</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">36</span> <span class="footnotesbot">g</span> Hebrew <i>When they got up</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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