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2 Kings 19 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1 - And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2 - And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with [fn]sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - [fn]Peradventure the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: and thou shalt [fn]offer thy prayer for the remnant that is found.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:5 - So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - Behold, I [fn]send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:8 - So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he had departed from Lachis.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with thee: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - Let not thy God on whom thou trustest encourage thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - Behold, thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to [fn]waste them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:12 - Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13 - Where is the king of Hæmath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:14 - And Ezekias took [fn]the letter from the hand of the messengers, and [fn]read it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezekias spread it before the Lord,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:15 - and said, O Lord God of Israel, that dwellest over the cherubs, thou art the only God in all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:16 - Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - For truly, Lord, the kings of [fn]Assyria have wasted the nations,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - and [fn]have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men's hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19 - And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou alone art the Lord God.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:20 - And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard [fn]thy prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - This is the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:22 - Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou reviled? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and raised thine eyes on high? Is it against the Holy One of Israel?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By [fn]thy messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the [fn]height of his cedar, and his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I have [fn]refreshed myself, and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the [fn]destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - And they that dwelt in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became as grass of the field, or as the green herb, the grass growing on houses, and that which is trodden down [fn]by him that stands upon it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:27 - But I know thy [fn]down-sitting, and thy going forth, and thy rage against me.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:28 - Because thou wast angry against me, and thy fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in thy nostrils, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:29 - And this shall be a sign to thee; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year let there be sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat ye the fruit of them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:30 - And he shall [fn]increase [fn]him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant shall strike root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:31 - For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - Is it not so? Thus saith the Lord [fn]concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot [fn]an arrow there, neither shall a shield [fn]come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:33 - By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David's sake.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, these were all dead corpses.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:36 - And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineve.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:37 - And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.
BES Footnotes
Gr. sackclothes.
Gr. if by any means.
Gr. take.
Gr. give.
Gr. curse them. q. d. devote to destruction.
Gr. the books.
Gr. them.
Gr. the Assyrians.
Gr. gave.
Lit. what things thou hast prayed.
Gr. by the hand of.
Gr. bulk or size.
Alex. reads ἐφύλαξα.
Gr. captivities.
Or, before it stands up.
Gr. seat.
Gr. add.
Gr. τὸ διασες. οἴκον.
Or, of. Heb.
Gr. a weapon.
Gr. come against it beforehand, etc.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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