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and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.</p> <a name="8" id="8"></a><p class="hdg">Sennacherib's Blasphemous Letter<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../2_kings/19.htm#8">2 Kings 19:8-13</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he heard say concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, He is come forth to make war with thee. And when he heard <i>it</i>, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by destroying them utterly; and shalt thou be delivered? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, <i>as</i> Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which <i>were</i> in Telassar? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where <i>is</i> the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?</p> <p class="hdg">Hezekiah's Prayer</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prayed unto the LORD, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, that dwellest <i>between</i> the cherubims, thou <i>art</i> the God, <i>even</i> thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Incline thine ear, O LORD, and hear; open thine eyes, O LORD, and see: and hear all the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent to reproach the living God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries, <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And have cast their gods into the fire: for they <i>were</i> no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Now therefore, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou <i>art</i> the LORD, <i>even</i> thou only.</p> <p class="hdg">The Fall of Sennacherib</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>This <i>is</i> the word which the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee, <i>and</i> laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted <i>thy</i> voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? <i>even</i> against the Holy One of Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, <i>and</i> the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, <i>and</i> the forest of his Carmel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Hast thou not heard long ago, <i>how</i> I have done it; <i>and</i> of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities <i>into</i> ruinous heaps.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore their inhabitants <i>were</i> of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were <i>as</i> the grass of the field, and <i>as</i> the green herb, <i>as</i> the grass on the housetops, and <i>as corn</i> blasted before it be grown up.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And this <i>shall be</i> a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat <i>this</i> year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward: <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>For I will defend this city to save it for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.</p> <p class="hdg">The Assyrian Camp Destroyed</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they <i>were</i> all dead corpses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/37-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword; 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