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And 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.
02 And 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.
03 And 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.
04 It may be the Lord thy God will hear all the
words of Rabshakeh, 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.
05 So the servants of king Hezekiah came to
Isaiah.
06 And 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.
07 Behold, 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.
08 So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of
Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard
that he was departed from Lachish.
09 And 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,
10 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
delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying
them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have 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?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of
Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of
Hena, and Ivah?
14 And 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.
15 And 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.
16 Lord, 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.
17 Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have
destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And 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.
19 Now 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.
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20 Then 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.
21 This 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.
22 Whom 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.
23 By 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.
24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and
with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the
rivers of besieged places.
25 Hast 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.
26 Therefore 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 house tops, and as corn
blasted before it be grown up.
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and
thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
28 Because 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.
29 And 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.
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house
of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and
bear fruit upward.
31 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.
32 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 shield, nor cast a bank against it.
33 By the way that he came, by the same shall he
return, and shall not come into this city, saith
the Lord.
34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for
mine own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
35 And 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.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and
went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
37 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:
and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And
Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.
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