2 Kings 19

1When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Gen 37:34 · 1Sam 4:12 · 1Ki 21:27 · 1Ki 21:29 · 2Ki 5:7 · 2Ki 6:30 · +12 more

2He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:18 · 2Ki 22:13 · 2Chr 26:22 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 2:1 · Isa 37:2 · +2 more

3They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:29 · Ps 39:11 · Ps 95:8 · Ps 123:3 · Isa 26:17 · Isa 66:9 · +4 more

4It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”Cross-references: Gen 22:14 · Deut 32:36 · Josh 14:12 · 1Sam 14:6 · 1Sam 17:45 · 2Sam 16:12 · +16 more

5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Lev 26:8 · Deut 20:1 · Deut 20:3 · Josh 11:6 · 2Ki 6:16 · +13 more

7Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”Cross-references: 2Ki 7:6 · 2Ki 19:35 · 2Chr 32:21 · Job 4:9 · Job 15:21 · Ps 11:6 · +8 more

8So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.Cross-references: Josh 10:29 · Josh 12:11 · Josh 12:15 · Josh 15:39 · Josh 15:42 · 2Ki 8:22 · +3 more

9When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,Cross-references: 1Sam 23:27 · 2Ki 18:17 · Isa 37:9

10“Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:5 · 2Ki 18:29 · 2Chr 32:15 · Isa 37:10

11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?Cross-references: 2Ki 17:5 · 2Ki 19:17 · 2Chr 32:13 · Isa 10:8

12Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?Cross-references: Gen 2:8 · Gen 11:31 · Gen 29:4 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 18:33 · 1Chr 5:26 · +3 more

13Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”Cross-references: Num 13:21 · Num 34:8 · 2Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 18:34 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 37:13 · +3 more

14Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:28 · Ezra 9:5 · Ps 74:10 · Ps 91:1 · Ps 123:1 · Isa 37:14

15Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · Gen 2:4 · Gen 32:28 · Gen 33:20 · Ex 25:22 · 1Sam 4:4 · +23 more

16Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.Cross-references: 1Ki 8:29 · 2Ki 19:4 · 2Chr 6:40 · Ps 31:2 · Ps 79:12 · Isa 37:4 · +3 more

17Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,Cross-references: 2Ki 16:9 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 17:24 · 1Chr 5:26 · Job 9:2 · Isa 5:9 · +8 more

18and 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.Cross-references: 2Sam 5:21 · Ps 115:4 · Isa 37:18 · Isa 44:9 · Isa 46:1 · Jer 10:3 · +2 more

19Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”Cross-references: Ex 9:15 · Josh 7:9 · 1Sam 17:45 · 1Ki 8:43 · 1Ki 18:36 · 1Ki 20:28 · +4 more

20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:23 · 2Ki 20:5 · 2Chr 32:20 · Job 22:27 · Ps 50:15 · +9 more

21This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.Cross-references: Job 16:4 · Ps 9:14 · Ps 22:7 · Ps 109:25 · Ps 137:8 · Isa 1:8 · +17 more

22Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!Cross-references: Ex 5:2 · Ex 9:17 · 2Ki 18:28 · 2Ki 19:4 · 2Ki 19:6 · Ps 71:22 · +13 more

23By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:17 · 2Ki 18:23 · 2Ki 18:33 · 2Chr 26:10 · 2Chr 32:17 · Ps 20:7 · +5 more

24I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · 2Sam 17:13 · 1Ki 20:10 · Isa 19:6 · Dan 4:30

25Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.Cross-references: Ps 33:11 · Ps 76:10 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:15 · Isa 37:26 · Isa 45:7 · +3 more

26Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.Cross-references: Num 11:23 · Num 14:9 · Ps 48:4 · Ps 92:7 · Ps 102:11 · Ps 127:1 · +8 more

27But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.Cross-references: Deut 28:6 · Deut 28:19 · Ps 121:8 · Ps 139:1 · Isa 37:28 · Jer 23:23

28Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’Cross-references: 2Ki 19:33 · 2Ki 19:36 · Job 41:2 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 7:6 · Ps 10:13 · +16 more

29“This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.Cross-references: Ex 3:12 · Lev 25:4 · Lev 25:20 · 1Sam 2:34 · 2Ki 19:21 · 2Ki 19:31 · +4 more

30The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:4 · 2Chr 32:22 · Ps 80:9 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 27:6 · +1 more

31For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:4 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 59:17 · Isa 63:15 · Jer 44:14 · +6 more

32“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.Cross-references: 2Sam 20:15 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 10:24 · Isa 10:28 · Isa 37:33 · Ezek 21:22 · +1 more

33He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:28 · 2Ki 19:36

34‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”Cross-references: Deut 32:27 · 1Ki 11:12 · 1Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 20:6 · Ps 46:5 · Ps 48:2 · +12 more

35That night, Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.Cross-references: Ex 12:23 · Ex 12:29 · 2Sam 24:16 · 1Chr 21:12 · 1Chr 21:16 · 2Chr 32:21 · +11 more

36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home, and lived at Nineveh.Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · 2Ki 19:7 · 2Ki 19:28 · 2Ki 19:33 · Jonah 1:2 · Jonah 3:2 · +3 more

37As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.Cross-references: Gen 8:4 · Deut 32:31 · 2Ki 18:5 · 2Ki 18:30 · 2Ki 19:7 · 2Ki 19:10 · +6 more