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2 Kings 19 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:1 - When King Hezeki'ah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:2 - And he sent Eli'akim, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:3 - They said to him, "Thus says Hezeki'ah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:4 - It may be that the LORD your God heard all the words of the Rab'shakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:5 - When the servants of King Hezeki'ah came to Isaiah,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:6 - Isaiah said to them, "Say to your master, 'Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have reviled me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:7 - Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'"

Sennacherib Defies God

(Isa 37:8–20 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:8 - The Rab'shakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah; for he heard that the king had left Lachish.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:9 - And when the king heard concerning Tirha'kah king of Ethiopia, "Behold, he has set out to fight against you," he sent messengers again to Hezeki'ah, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:10 - "Thus shall you speak to Hezeki'ah king of Judah: 'Do not let your God on whom you rely deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:11 - Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, destroying them utterly. And shall you be delivered?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations which my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Tel-assar?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:13 - Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharva'im, the king of Hena, or the king of Ivvah?'"

Hezekiah's Prayer

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:14 - Hezeki'ah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezeki'ah went up to the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:15 - And Hezeki'ah prayed before the LORD, and said: "O LORD the God of Israel, who art enthroned above the cherubim, thou art the God, thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:16 - Incline thy ear, O LORD, and hear; open thy eyes, O LORD, and see; and hear the words of Sennach'erib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:17 - Of a truth, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - 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 were destroyed.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:19 - So now, O LORD our God, save us, I beseech thee, from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou, O LORD, art God alone."

God's Answer through Isaiah

(Isa 37:21–35 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:20 - Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezeki'ah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Your prayer to me about Sennach'erib king of Assyria I have heard.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:21 - This is the word that the LORD has spoken concerning him: "She despises you, she scorns you--the virgin daughter of Zion; she wags her head behind you--the daughter of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:22 - "Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have mocked the LORD, and you have said, 'With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:24 - I dug wells and drank foreign waters, and I dried up with the sole of my foot all the streams of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:25 - "Have you not heard that I determined it long ago? I planned from days of old what now I bring to pass, that you should turn fortified cities into heaps of ruins,

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:26 - while their inhabitants, shorn of strength, are dismayed and confounded, and have become like plants of the field, and like tender grass, like grass on the housetops; blighted before it is grown?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:27 - "But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:28 - Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come into my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:29 - "And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same; then in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:30 - And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward;

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:31 - for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD will do this.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:32 - "Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:33 - By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:34 - For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
(Isa 37:36–38; 2Ch 32:20–23 )

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:35 - And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:36 - Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nin'eveh.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:37 - And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adram'melech and Share'zer, his sons, slew him with the sword, and escaped into the land of Ar'arat. And Esarhad'don his son reigned in his stead.
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