2 Kings 19:25-37

25 “ ‘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 have turned fortified cities into piles of stone.
26 Their people, drained of power, are dismayed and put to shame. They are like plants in the field, like tender green shoots, like grass sprouting on the roof, scorched before it grows up.
27 “ ‘But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me.
28 Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.’
29 “This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above.
31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. “The zeal of the LORD Almighty will accomplish this.
32 “Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: “ ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
33 By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
34 I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”
35 That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
37 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.

Cross References 30

  • 1. Isaiah 40:21,28
  • 2. Isaiah 22:11; Isaiah 10:5; Isaiah 45:7
  • 3. Micah 1:6
  • 4. Isaiah 13:7; Ezekiel 7:17; Zephaniah 3:16
  • 5. Psalms 6:10; Psalms 71:24; Psalms 83:17; Isaiah 41:23; Jeremiah 8:9
  • 6. Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 53:2; Jeremiah 23:5
  • 7. Job 8:12; Psalms 37:2; Psalms 129:6
  • 8. Psalms 139:1-4
  • 9. 2 Chronicles 33:11; Ezekiel 19:9; Ezekiel 29:4; Ezekiel 38:4; Amos 4:2
  • 10. Isaiah 30:28
  • 11. ver 33
  • 12. S Exodus 7:9; S Deuteronomy 13:2; 2 Kings 20:8-9; Luke 2:12
  • 13. Leviticus 25:5
  • 14. Psalms 107:37; Isaiah 65:21; Amos 9:14
  • 15. S Genesis 45:7
  • 16. Isaiah 5:24; Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 27:6; Ezekiel 17:22; Amos 2:9; 2 Chronicles 32:22-23
  • 17. S Genesis 45:7
  • 18. Isaiah 66:19; Zephaniah 2:9; Zechariah 14:16
  • 19. Isaiah 9:7
  • 20. ver 28
  • 21. 2 Kings 20:6
  • 22. S 2 Samuel 7:15; 1 Kings 11:12-13
  • 23. S Genesis 19:13; S Exodus 12:23
  • 24. Job 24:24; Isaiah 17:14; Isaiah 41:12; Nahum 3:3
  • 25. S 2 Kings 12:18
  • 26. S Genesis 10:11; John 1:2
  • 27. 2 Kings 17:31
  • 28. S ver 7
  • 29. S Genesis 8:4
  • 30. S 2 Kings 17:24; Ezra 4:2
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