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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 Literal Standard Version</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="../">LSV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/2_kings/19-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, at King Hezekiah’s hearing, that he tears his garments, and covers himself with sackcloth, and enters the house of YHWH, <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>and sends Eliakim, who [is] over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the elderly of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, son of Amoz, <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and they say to him, “Thus said Hezekiah: This day [is] a day of distress, and rebuke, and despising; for sons have come to the birth, and there is not power to bring forth. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>It may be your God YHWH hears all the words of the chief of the butlers with which the king of Asshur his lord has sent him to reproach the living God, and has decided concerning the words that your God YHWH has heard, and you have lifted up prayer for the remnant that is found.” <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the servants of King Hezekiah come to Isaiah, <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>and Isaiah says to them, “Thus you say to your lord, Thus said YHWH: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Asshur have reviled Me. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Behold, I am giving a spirit in him, and he has heard a report, and has turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the chief of the butlers turns back and finds the king of Asshur fighting against Libnah, for he has heard that he has journeyed from Lachish. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And he hears concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, saying, “Behold, he has come out to fight with you”; and he turns and sends messengers to Hezekiah, saying, <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Thus you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you are trusting lift you up, saying, Jerusalem is not given into the hand of the king of Asshur. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Behold, you have heard that which the kings of Asshur have done to all the lands—to devote them; and are you delivered? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed—Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who [are] in Thelassar? <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Where [is] the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?”<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And Hezekiah takes the letters out of the hand of the messengers and reads them, and goes up to the house of YHWH, and Hezekiah spreads it before YHWH. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And Hezekiah prays before YHWH and says, “O YHWH, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubim, You [are] God Himself—You alone—to all the kingdoms of the earth: You have made the heavens and the earth. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Incline, O YHWH, Your ear, and hear; open, O YHWH, Your eyes, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib with which he has sent him to reproach the living God. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Truly, O YHWH, kings of Asshur have laid waste the nations and their land, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>and have put their gods into fire, for they [are] no gods, but work of the hands of man, wood and stone, and destroy them. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And now, O our God YHWH, please save us out of his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth know that You [are] YHWH God—You alone.”<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And Isaiah son of Amoz sends to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus said YHWH, God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Asshur I have heard;<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>this [is] the word that YHWH spoke concerning him: Trampled on you—laughed at you "" Has the virgin daughter of Zion; Shaken the head behind you "" Has the daughter of Jerusalem!<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Whom have you reproached and reviled? And against whom lifted up a voice? Indeed, you lift up your eyes on high—Against the Holy One of Israel!<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>By the hand of your messengers "" You have reproached the Lord, and say, "" In the multitude of my chariots I have come up to a high place of mountains—The sides of Lebanon, "" And I cut down the height of its cedars, "" The choice of its firs, "" And I enter the lodging of its extremity, "" The forest of its Carmel.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>I have dug, and drunk strange waters, "" And I dry up with the sole of my steps "" All floods of a bulwark.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Have you not heard from afar [that] I made it, "" From days of old that I formed it? Now I have brought it in, "" And it becomes a desolation, "" Ruinous heaps [are] fortified cities,<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And their inhabitants [are] feeble-handed, "" They were broken down, and are dried up, "" They have been the herb of the field, "" And the greenness of the tender grass, "" Grass of the roofs, "" And blasted grain—before it has risen up!<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And your sitting down, and your going out, "" And your coming in, I have known, "" And your anger toward Me;<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Because of your anger toward Me, "" And your noise—it came up into My ears, "" I have put My hook in your nose, "" And My bridle in your lips, "" And have caused you to turn back "" In the way in which you came.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And this [is] the sign to you, "" Food of the year [is] the spontaneous growth, "" And in the second year the self-produced, "" And in the third year you sow, and reap, "" And plant vineyards, and eat their fruits. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And it has continued—The escaped of the house of Judah "" That has been left—to take root beneath, "" And has made fruit upward. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>For a remnant goes out from Jerusalem, "" And an escape from Mount Zion; The zeal of YHWH [of Hosts] does this.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Therefore, thus said YHWH, "" Concerning the king of Asshur: He does not come into this city, "" Nor does he shoot an arrow there, "" Nor does he come before it with shield, "" Nor does he pour out a mound against it. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>In the way that he comes in—In it he turns back, "" And to this city he does not come in, "" A declaration of YHWH— <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And I have covered over this city, "" To save it for My own sake, "" And for the sake of My servant David.”<p> <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And it comes to pass, in that night, that a messenger of YHWH goes out, and strikes one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of Asshur, and they rise early in the morning, and behold, all of them [are] dead corpses. <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>And Sennacherib king of Asshur journeys, and goes, and turns back, and dwells in Nineveh; <span class="reftext"><a href="/2_kings/19-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>and it comes to pass, he is bowing himself in the house of his god Nisroch, and [his sons] Adramelech and Sharezar have struck him with the sword, and they have escaped to the land of Ararat, and his son Esar-Haddon reigns in his stead.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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