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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.
On
hearing
this
report
, King Hezekiah tore
his clothes, put
on
sackcloth, and entered
the house of the LORD.
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 .
And he sent Eliakim the palace
administrator
, Shebna the scribe, and the leading
priests, all
wearing
sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah
son of Amoz
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
.
to
tell
him, “
This is what
Hezekiah
says:
Today
is
a day of distress
, rebuke, and disgrace
; for children have
come to the point
of
birth, but
there is no
strength to deliver
them
.
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
.
Perhaps
the LORD your
God will hear all the words of the
Rabshakeh, whom his
master
the king of Assyria has
sent to defy
the living God ,
and He
will rebuke
him
for
the words that
the LORD your
God has
heard .
Therefore
lift up a
prayer for the remnant that still
survives
. ”
So the servants of king Hezekiah came
to Isaiah .
So the servants of King Hezekiah went
to Isaiah ,
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.
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.
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
.
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. ’”
So
Rabshakeh returned
, and found the king of
Assyria
warring
against Libnah :
for
he
had
heard
that
he
was
departed
from
Lachish
.
When
the
Rabshakeh heard
that
the
king
of
Assyria
had
left
Lachish
, he
withdrew
and found the king fighting
against Libnah.
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,
Now
Sennacherib
had
been
warned
about
Tirhakah king of Cush:
“Look
, he has
set
out to fight against you.”
So
Sennacherib
again
sent messengers to
Hezekiah, saying,
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.
“Give
this
message
to Hezekiah king of Judah :
‘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.
Behold,
thou
hast
heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands
, by
destroying
them utterly:
and
shalt
thou
be delivered
?
Surely
you
have
heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the
other
countries
, devoting
them to
destruction.
Will
you
then
be spared
?
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
?
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
?
Where is
the king
of Hamath, and
the
king
of
Arpad, and
the
king
of
the
city
of
Sepharvaim, of
Hena, and Ivah
?
Where are
the kings
of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah
? ’”
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.
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.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD ,
and
said,
O LORD God of Israel, which
dwellest
between the cherubim, thou
art
the
God,
even
thou
alone ,
of
all the kingdoms of the earth ;
thou
hast
made heaven
and earth.
And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD :
“
O LORD ,
God of Israel, enthroned
between the cherubim, You
alone are
God
over
all the kingdoms of the earth .
You
made the
heavens
and the
earth.
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.
Incline
Your
ear, O
LORD,
and hear ;
open Your
eyes
, O
LORD, and see .
Listen
to
the words that
Sennacherib has
sent to defy
the living God.
Of
a
truth
, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed
the
nations and their lands ,
Truly
, O
LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid
waste
these
nations and their lands .
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
.
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.
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
.
And
now, O LORD our God, please
save us from
his hand, so
that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You
alone,
O
LORD, are
God
. ”
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
.
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a
message
to Hezekiah :
“This
is
what
the LORD ,
the
God of Israel, says:
I
have
heard
your
prayer
concerning
Sennacherib king of Assyria.
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
.
This is the word that the LORD has
spoken against
him :
‘
The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises
you
and mocks
you
; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes
her head behind
you
.
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 .
Whom have
you
taunted
and blasphemed? Against whom have
you
raised
your
voice and lifted your
eyes in
pride
? Against the Holy One of Israel !
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
.
Through
your
servants
you
have
taunted
the Lord, and you
have
said :
“
With my many
chariots I have
ascended
to the heights
of the mountains, to the remote
peaks
of Lebanon .
I
have
cut down its
tallest
cedars
, the finest
of its
cypresses.
I
have
reached
its
farthest
outposts
, the densest
of its
forests
.
I have digged
and drunk strange
waters ,
and
with the sole
of my feet have
I dried up all the rivers
of besieged
places
.
I have dug
wells
and drunk foreign
waters .
With the soles
of my feet I have
dried up all the streams
of Egypt
. ”
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
.
Have
you
not heard ?
Long ago I ordained
it ;
in
days
of old
I planned
it .
Now I have
brought it to pass, that you
should
crush
fortified
cities into piles
of
rubble
.
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
.
Therefore their inhabitants ,
devoid
of power, are
dismayed and ashamed.
They are
like
plants
in
the field, tender
green shoots
, grass on the rooftops
, scorched
before it is
grown.
But I know thy
abode
, and
thy
going out ,
and thy
coming in, and thy
rage
against me.
But I know your
sitting
down
, your
going out and coming in, and your
raging
against Me.
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
.
Because your
rage and
arrogance
against Me have
reached
My
ears, I will put My hook in your
nose and My bit
in your
mouth;
I will send
you
back the way you
came
. ’
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
.
And this will
be a sign to
you
, O
Hezekiah:
This year you
will
eat
what
grows
on
its
own
, and in the second year what
springs
from
the same .
But
in the third year you
will
sow and reap ;
you
will
plant vineyards and eat their
fruit
.
And the remnant that
is
escaped
of the house of Judah shall
yet
again take root downward,
and bear fruit upward
.
And the surviving
remnant of the house of Judah will
again take root below
and bear fruit above
.
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.
For a remnant will
go
forth
from
Jerusalem
, and survivors
from
Mount Zion .
The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will
accomplish
this.
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.
So
this
is
what
the LORD says
about
the king of Assyria :
‘
He will
not enter
this city or
shoot an arrow into
it.
He
will
not
come before it with a
shield or
build
up
a siege
ramp
against it.
By
the way that
he came, by
the
same
shall
he
return,
and shall
not come
into
this city, saith
the LORD.
He
will
go
back
the way he came, and he
will
not enter
this city, ’
declares
the LORD.
For
I will defend this city ,
to
save it ,
for mine
own sake ,
and for my servant David's
sake
.
‘
I will defend this city and
save it for My
own sake and for the
sake
of
My servant David
. ’”
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.
And that very
night the angel of the LORD went out and struck
down
185,000
men
in the camp of the Assyrians .
When the people
got
up
the
next
morning, there
were all the
dead bodies!
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed,
and
went
and returned ,
and
dwelt
at
Nineveh.
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke
camp
and withdrew.
He
returned to
Nineveh and
stayed
there
.
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
.
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
.
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