Holy Bible
(King James Version)
Second
Kings: Chapter 19
1. AND it came to pass,
when king Hez-e-ki-ah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered
himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
2. And he sent E-li-a-kim, 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.
3. And they said unto him, Thus saith Hez-e-ki-ah, This day is a day of
trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the
birth, and there in not strength to bring forth.
4. It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rab-sha-keh,
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.
5. So the servants of king Hez-e-ki-ah came to Isaiah.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. So Rab-sha-keh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring
against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from La-chish.
9. And when he heard say of Tir-ha-kah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is
come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto
Hez-e-ki-ah, saying,
10. Thus shall ye speak to Hez-e-ki-ah 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 Thel-a-sar?
13. Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of
the city of Se-phar-va-im, of Hena, and Ivah?
14. And Hez-e-ki-ah 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 Hez-e-ki-ah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of
Israel, which dwellest between the cher-u-bims, 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 Sen-nach-er-ib, 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 hand, 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.
20. Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hez-e-ki-ah, saying, Thus saith
the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against
Sen-nach-er-ib 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 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 housetops, 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 by 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 Sen-nach-er-ib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned,
and dwelt at Nin-e-veh.
37. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nis-roch
his god, that A-dram-me-lech and Sha-re-zer his sons smote him with the
sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And E-sar-had-don
his son reigned in his stead.
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