Isaiah’s Message of Deliverance
(2 Kings 19:1–7)
On hearing this report, King Hezekiah tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and entered the house of the LORD. 2Ki 19:1-372Ki 22:11Ezr 9:5Isa 36:22Job 1:20-21Jon 3:5-6Jer 36:24Mat 11:21 And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz Isa 1:12Ch 20:202Ki 18:182Ki 19:22Ki 22:12-14Isa 36:3Isa 37:14Jol 1:13 to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them. Isa 66:9Hos 13:132Ki 19:3Isa 26:17-18Psa 50:15Isa 33:22Ch 15:4Psa 91:15 Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.” Isa 1:9Isa 36:20Isa 10:22Psa 106:231Sa 12:191Sa 12:231Sa 14:61Sa 17:26
So the servants of King Hezekiah went to Isaiah, who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. Isa 7:4Isa 35:4Mrk 5:362Ch 20:15-202Ki 19:5-72Ki 22:15-20Exo 14:13Isa 10:24-25 Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land, where I will cause him to fall by the sword.’” 2Ch 32:21Isa 31:8-92Ki 7:6Isa 10:16-18Isa 10:33-34Isa 17:13-14Isa 29:5-8Isa 30:28-33
Sennacherib’s Blasphemous Letter
(2 Kings 19:8–13)
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah. Jos 10:292Ch 21:102Ki 19:8-92Ki 8:22Jos 10:31-34Jos 12:11Jos 15:39Jos 21:13
Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: 1 “He has set out to fight against you.” 1Sa 23:27-28Isa 18:1Isa 20:5Isa 37:7
On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, “Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: Isa 36:152Ki 18:52Ch 32:15-192Ch 32:7-82Ki 19:10-13Isa 36:20Isa 36:4Mat 27:43
‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the other countries, devoting them to destruction. 2 Will you then be spared? Isa 36:18-202Ki 17:4-62Ki 18:33-35Isa 10:7-14Isa 14:17Isa 37:18-19 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar? Gen 11:312Ki 17:62Ki 18:112Ki 19:12Act 7:2Amo 1:5Ezk 27:23Ezk 28:13 Where are the kings of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’” 2Ki 17:242Ki 17:30-312Ki 18:342Ki 19:13Isa 10:9Isa 36:19Jer 49:23
Hezekiah’s Prayer
(2 Kings 19:14–19)
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. 2Ki 19:14Psa 123:1-41Ki 8:28-301Ki 8:381Ki 9:32Ch 6:20-42Isa 37:1Jol 2:17-20 And Hezekiah prayed to the LORD: 1Sa 7:8-92Ch 14:112Ch 20:6-122Ki 19:15-192Sa 7:18-29Dan 9:3-4Jas 5:13Php 4:6-7
“O LORD of Hosts, God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. Exo 25:22Psa 99:1Psa 86:101Sa 4:4Isa 44:24Psa 80:1Col 1:16Heb 4:16 Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. 2Ch 6:40Psa 17:61Pe 3:12Isa 37:4Psa 10:14-15Psa 74:222Sa 16:12Dan 9:17-19
Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all these countries and their lands. 2Ki 15:29Nam 2:11-121Ch 5:262Ki 16:92Ki 17:242Ki 17:6 They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands. 2Sa 5:21Exo 32:20Hos 8:6Isa 10:9-11Isa 26:14Isa 36:18-20Isa 40:19-21Isa 41:24
And now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God. 3” Psa 46:101Ki 18:36-37Psa 83:17-18Ezk 36:23Isa 42:8Mal 1:11Psa 67:1-21Ki 8:43
Sennacherib’s Fall Prophesied
(2 Kings 19:20–34)
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Because you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria, 2Ki 19:20-212Sa 15:312Sa 17:23Act 4:31Dan 9:20-23Isa 37:2Isa 38:3-6Isa 58:9 this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: Job 16:4Isa 1:8Jer 14:17Lam 2:13Psa 22:7-8Psa 9:14Zec 2:10Zep 3:14
‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion
despises you and mocks you;
the Daughter of Jerusalem
shakes her head behind you.
Whom have you taunted and blasphemed? Dan 5:20-23Ezk 39:72Th 2:4Dan 7:25Ezk 28:9Isa 17:7Isa 41:162Ch 32:17
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes in pride?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, Isa 14:8Isa 10:182Ki 19:22-23Dan 4:20-22Dan 4:30Dan 4:8-14Exo 15:9Ezk 31:3-18
and you have said:
“With my many chariots
I have ascended
to the heights of the mountains,
to the remote peaks of Lebanon.
I have cut down its tallest cedars,
the finest of its cypresses. 4
I have reached its farthest heights,
the densest of its forests.
I have dug wells 1Ki 20:102Ki 19:23-24Deu 11:10Isa 36:12
and drunk foreign 5waters.
With the soles of my feet
I have dried up all the streams of Egypt.”
Have you not heard? Act 4:27-28Act 2:231Pe 2:8Isa 10:15Isa 46:10-11Isa 10:5-6Amo 3:6Gen 50:20
Long ago I ordained it;
in days of old I planned it.
Now I have brought it to pass,
that you should crush fortified cities
into piles of rubble.
Therefore their inhabitants, devoid of power, Psa 129:61Pe 1:242Ki 19:26Isa 19:16Isa 40:6-8Jas 1:10-11Jer 37:10Jer 5:10
are dismayed and ashamed.
They are like plants in the field,
tender green shoots,
grass on the rooftops,
scorched 6before it is grown.
But I know your sitting down, Psa 139:1-11Rev 2:13Jer 23:23-24Pro 15:3Pro 5:21
your going out and coming in,
and your raging against Me.
Because your rage and arrogance against Me Ezk 38:4Isa 10:12Isa 30:28Isa 37:34Ezk 29:42Ki 19:27-28Act 22:22Act 9:4
have reached My ears,
I will put My hook in your nose
and My bit in your mouth;
I will send you back
the way you came.’
And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah: 2Ki 19:291Ki 13:3-52Ki 20:9Exo 3:12Isa 7:14Lev 25:4-5Isa 38:7Isa 7:21-25
This year you will eat
what grows on its own,
and in the second year
what springs from the same.
But in the third year you will sow and reap;
you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah Isa 27:62Ki 19:30-31Psa 80:9Isa 1:9Isa 10:20-22Jer 44:28Rom 11:5Rom 9:27
will again take root below
and bear fruit above.
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, Isa 9:72Ki 19:31Isa 59:17Jol 2:18Zec 1:14Isa 37:20
and survivors from Mount Zion.
The zeal of the LORD of Hosts
will accomplish this.
So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: 2Ki 19:32-35Ezk 21:22Isa 10:32-34Isa 17:12Isa 17:14Isa 33:20Isa 8:7-10Luk 19:43-44
‘He will not enter this city
or shoot an arrow into it.
He will not come before it with a shield
or build up a siege ramp against it.
He will go back the way he came, Isa 37:29Pro 21:30
and he will not enter this city,’
declares the LORD.
‘I will defend this city 2Ki 20:6Isa 31:5Isa 38:6Eph 1:14Isa 43:25Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:15-16Ezk 37:24-25
and save it
for My own sake
and for the sake of My servant David.’”
Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians
(2 Kings 19:35–37; 2 Chronicles 32:20–23)
Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up 7the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! 2Ki 19:35Isa 10:121Th 5:2-32Sa 24:16Isa 10:33-34Isa 31:8Act 12:23Isa 33:10-12
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. Jon 1:2Jon 3:3Gen 10:11-12Isa 31:9Isa 37:29Isa 37:7Jon 4:11Mat 12:41 One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place. Gen 8:4Jer 51:27Ezr 4:22Ch 32:142Ch 32:192Ch 32:212Ki 19:36-37Isa 14:12