2 Kings 19

About 2 Kings 2 Kings traces the divided kingdoms to their fall, Israel to Assyria and Judah to Babylon.

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.Selected2 Kings 19:1Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:2Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:3Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:4Ask

So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.Selected2 Kings 19:5Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:6Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:7Ask

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.Selected2 Kings 19:8Ask

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,Selected2 Kings 19:9Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:10Ask

Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?Selected2 Kings 19:11Ask

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?Selected2 Kings 19:12Ask

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?Selected2 Kings 19:13Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:14Ask

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.Selected2 Kings 19:15Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:16Ask

Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,Selected2 Kings 19:17Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:18Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:19Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:20Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:21Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:22Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:23Ask

I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.Selected2 Kings 19:24Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:25Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:26Ask

But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.Selected2 Kings 19:27Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:28Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:29Ask

And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.Selected2 Kings 19:30Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:31Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:32Ask

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.Selected2 Kings 19:33Ask

For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.Selected2 Kings 19:34Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:35Ask

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.Selected2 Kings 19:36Ask

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.Selected2 Kings 19:37Ask

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