1And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it , that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord .[ † ]2 Kings 18:132 Chronicles 32:20-22Isaiah 37:1Psalms 69:11 2And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. 3And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
4It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.[ † ]2 Samuel 16:122 Kings 18:35Psalms 50:21
5So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord , Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.[ † ]Isaiah 37:6Psalms 112:72 Kings 18:17 7Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.[ † ]2 Kings 19:35-37Jeremiah 51:1
8So Rab-shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.[ † ]2 Kings 18:14-17 9And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,[ † ]1 Samuel 23:27Isaiah 37:9 10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.[ † ]2 Kings 18:5 11Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered? 12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?[ † ]2 Kings 18:33-34Ezekiel 27:23 13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?[ † ]2 Kings 18:34
14And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house of the Lord , and spread it before the Lord .[ † ]Isaiah 37:14 15And Hezekiah prayed before the Lord , and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.[ † ]Exodus 25:22Psalms 80:1Isaiah 37:16Isaiah 44:6 16Lord , bow down thine ear, and hear: open, Lord , thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.[ † ]Psalms 31:2Isaiah 37:171 Kings 8:292 Chronicles 6:402 Kings 19:4 17Of a truth, Lord , the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands, 18and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.[ † ]Isaiah 44:9-20Jeremiah 10:3-5Psalms 115:4Jeremiah 10:3Acts 17:29 19Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only.[ † ]Psalms 83:181 Kings 8:42-43
20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.[ † ]Isaiah 37:212 Kings 20:5Psalms 65:2 21This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.[ † ]Jeremiah 14:17Lamentations 2:13Psalms 22:7-8 22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.[ † ]Jeremiah 51:5 23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.[ † ]2 Kings 18:17Psalms 20:7 24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.[ † ]Isaiah 19:6
25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.[ † ]Isaiah 45:7Isaiah 10:5-6 26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.[ † ]Psalms 129:6 27But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.[ † ]Psalms 139:1-3Isaiah 37:28 28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will 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.[ † ]Job 41:2Ezekiel 29:4Ezekiel 38:4Amos 4:22 Kings 19:33-36
29And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.[ † ]Exodus 3:121 Samuel 2:342 Kings 20:8-9Isaiah 7:11-14Luke 2:12 30And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.[ † ]2 Kings 19:42 Chronicles 32:22-23 31For 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.[ † ]2 Kings 25:26Isaiah 9:7 32Therefore 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 shield, nor cast a bank against it.[ † ]Isaiah 8:7-10 33By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the Lord .
34For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.[ † ]2 Kings 20:62 Chronicles 32:21Isaiah 31:51 Kings 11:12-13
35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.[ † ]Exodus 12:29Isaiah 10:12-19Isaiah 37:36Hosea 1:7 36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.[ † ]Genesis 10:11 37And 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: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.[ † ]2 Kings 17:312 Kings 19:72 Chronicles 32:21Ezra 4:2