Isaiah 37

1When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:1 · 2Ki 22:11 · Ezra 9:5 · Job 1:20 · Isa 36:22 · Jer 36:24 · +2 more

2He sent Eliakim, who 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 18:18 · 2Ki 19:2 · 2Ki 22:12 · 2Chr 20:20 · Isa 1:1 · Isa 36:3 · +2 more

3They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the birth, and there is no strength to give birth.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:3 · 2Chr 15:4 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · Ps 95:8 · Ps 116:3 · +9 more

4It may be Yahweh your God will hear 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: Josh 14:12 · 1Sam 7:8 · 1Sam 12:19 · 1Sam 12:23 · 1Sam 14:6 · 1Sam 17:26 · +23 more

5So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

6Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master, ‘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 · Josh 11:6 · 2Ki 19:5 · 2Ki 22:15 · 2Chr 20:15 · +8 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 · 2Chr 32:21 · Job 4:9 · Job 15:21 · Ps 58:9 · Isa 10:16 · +8 more

8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he heard that he had departed from Lachish.Cross-references: Num 33:20 · Josh 10:29 · Josh 10:31 · Josh 12:11 · Josh 15:39 · Josh 21:13 · +3 more

9He heard news concerning Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “He has come out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,Cross-references: 1Sam 23:27 · Isa 18:1 · Isa 20:5 · Isa 37:7

10“Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, “Jerusalem won’t be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”Cross-references: 2Ki 18:5 · 2Ki 19:10 · 2Chr 32:7 · 2Chr 32:15 · Ps 22:8 · Isa 36:4 · +3 more

11Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Shall you be delivered?Cross-references: 2Ki 17:4 · 2Ki 18:33 · Isa 10:7 · Isa 14:17 · Isa 36:18 · Isa 37:18

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 12:1 · Gen 12:14 · Gen 28:10 · Gen 29:4 · +9 more

13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”Cross-references: 2Ki 17:24 · 2Ki 17:30 · 2Ki 18:34 · 2Ki 19:13 · Isa 10:9 · Isa 36:19 · +1 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 · 1Ki 8:38 · 1Ki 9:3 · 2Ki 19:14 · 2Chr 6:20 · Ps 27:5 · +7 more

15Hezekiah prayed to Yahweh, saying,Cross-references: 1Sam 7:8 · 2Sam 7:18 · 2Ki 19:15 · 2Chr 14:11 · 2Chr 20:6 · Dan 9:3 · +2 more

16“Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, who is enthroned among 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 · Ex 25:22 · Deut 10:17 · 1Sam 4:4 · 2Sam 7:26 · 1Ki 18:32 · +22 more

17Turn your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and behold. Hear all of the words of Sennacherib, who has sent to defy the living God.Cross-references: 2Sam 16:12 · 2Chr 6:40 · Job 36:7 · Ps 10:14 · Ps 17:6 · Ps 71:2 · +8 more

18Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the countries and their land,Cross-references: 2Ki 15:29 · 2Ki 16:9 · 2Ki 17:6 · 2Ki 17:24 · 1Chr 5:26 · Nah 2:11

19and 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: Ex 32:20 · 2Sam 5:21 · Ps 115:4 · Isa 10:9 · Isa 26:14 · Isa 36:18 · +10 more

20Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you are Yahweh, even you only.”Cross-references: Ex 9:15 · Josh 7:8 · 1Sam 17:45 · 1Ki 8:43 · 1Ki 18:36 · Ps 46:10 · +6 more

21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,Cross-references: 2Sam 15:31 · 2Sam 17:23 · 2Ki 19:20 · Job 22:27 · Ps 91:15 · Isa 37:2 · +5 more

22this is the word which 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: 1Sam 17:36 · 1Sam 17:44 · Job 16:4 · Ps 2:2 · Ps 9:14 · Ps 22:7 · +18 more

23Whom 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 · Ex 15:11 · 2Ki 19:4 · 2Ki 19:22 · 2Chr 32:17 · +26 more

24By your servants, 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. I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees. I will enter into its farthest height, the forest of its fruitful field.Cross-references: Ex 15:9 · 2Ki 19:22 · Ps 20:7 · Isa 10:13 · Isa 10:18 · Isa 14:8 · +9 more

25I have dug and drunk water, and with the sole of my feet I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt.”Cross-references: Deut 11:10 · 1Ki 20:10 · 2Ki 19:23 · Isa 36:12

26“‘Have you not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it in ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to destroy fortified cities, turning them into ruinous heaps.Cross-references: Gen 50:20 · Ps 17:13 · Ps 76:10 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 10:15 · Isa 25:1 · +7 more

27Therefore 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 a field before its crop has grown.Cross-references: Num 14:9 · 2Ki 19:26 · Ps 37:2 · Ps 90:5 · Ps 92:7 · Ps 103:15 · +8 more

28But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.Cross-references: Ps 139:1 · Prov 5:21 · Prov 15:3 · Jer 23:23 · Rev 2:13

29Because 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 19:27 · Job 15:25 · Job 41:2 · Ps 2:1 · Ps 32:9 · Ps 46:6 · +18 more

30“‘This shall be the sign to you: You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; 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 · 1Ki 13:3 · 2Ki 19:29 · 2Ki 20:9 · +3 more

31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:30 · Ps 80:9 · Isa 1:9 · Isa 6:13 · Isa 10:20 · Isa 27:6 · +6 more

32For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and survivors will escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.’Cross-references: 2Ki 19:31 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 37:20 · Isa 59:17 · Joel 2:18 · Zech 1:14

33“Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither will he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.Cross-references: 2Ki 19:32 · Isa 8:7 · Isa 10:32 · Isa 17:12 · Isa 17:14 · Isa 33:20 · +2 more

34He will return the way that he came, and he won’t come to this city,’ says Yahweh.Cross-references: Prov 21:30 · Isa 37:29

35‘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 11:36 · 1Ki 15:4 · 2Ki 20:6 · Isa 31:5 · +11 more

36Then Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men 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 12:30 · 2Sam 24:16 · 2Ki 19:35 · 1Chr 21:12 · 1Chr 21:16 · +14 more

37So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · Isa 31:9 · Isa 37:7 · Isa 37:29 · Jonah 1:2 · Jonah 3:3 · +3 more

38As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons 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 · 2Ki 19:36 · 2Chr 32:14 · 2Chr 32:19 · 2Chr 32:21 · Ezra 4:2 · +6 more