When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the LORD’s house. 1Ki 21:272Ki 18:372Ch 32:20-22Gen 37:34Isa 37:1-7Job 1:20-211Ki 21:291Sa 4:12 He 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. Isa 1:1Isa 2:12Ch 26:222Ki 18:182Ki 22:13-14Isa 37:2-5Luk 3:4Mat 4:14 They 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. Isa 66:9Jer 30:5-7Heb 3:15-16Hos 13:13Isa 26:17-182Ki 18:29Hos 5:15Psa 123:3-4 It may be the LORD 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 the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’” 2Sa 16:12Ezk 36:37Jas 5:16-17Jos 14:12Rom 9:271Sa 14:61Sa 17:452Ch 28:5-6
So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘The LORD says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. 2Ki 18:172Ki 18:35Isa 37:6-382Ch 20:152Ch 20:172Ki 18:302Ki 6:16Deu 20:1 Behold, 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.”’” 2Ki 7:62Ch 32:21Isa 10:16-18Isa 11:4Oba 1:1Psa 18:14-152Ki 19:35-37Jer 49:14
So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. 2Ki 18:14Jos 10:292Ki 8:22Isa 37:8-9Jos 12:11Jos 12:15Jos 15:39Jos 15:42 When 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, 1Sa 23:272Ki 18:17Isa 37:9 “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. 2Ki 18:52Ki 18:29-302Ch 32:15-19Isa 37:10-14 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered? 2Ch 32:13-142Ki 17:5-112Ki 19:17-18Isa 10:8-11 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? 2Ki 17:6Ezk 27:23Gen 11:31Isa 37:121Ch 5:262Ki 18:33-34Act 7:4Gen 2:8 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’” 2Ki 18:342Ki 17:24Isa 11:11Isa 37:13-20Jer 39:5Jer 49:23Num 13:21Num 34:8
Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the LORD’s house, and spread it before the LORD. Isa 37:14Psa 123:1-4Psa 91:1-21Ki 8:28-30Ezr 9:5Psa 74:10-11 Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “LORD, 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. 1Ki 18:392Ki 5:15Dan 4:34-35Dan 9:3-4Exo 25:22Isa 44:6Isa 44:8Jer 10:10-12 Incline your ear, LORD, and hear. Open your eyes, LORD, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God. 2Ch 6:402Ki 19:4Isa 37:17Psa 31:21Ki 8:29Dan 9:18Heb 11:26Isa 37:4 Truly, LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 1Ch 5:261Co 14:252Ki 16:92Ki 17:242Ki 17:6Act 4:27Dan 2:47Isa 10:9-11 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. Act 17:29Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:3-92Sa 5:21Isa 37:18-19Isa 46:1-2Jer 10:14-16Psa 115:4-8 Now therefore, LORD our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, LORD, are God alone.” Psa 83:181Ki 8:43Psa 67:1-21Ki 18:36-371Ki 20:281Sa 17:45-47Dan 4:34-37Exo 9:15-16
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you. 2Ki 20:52Ch 32:20-211Jn 5:14-15Act 10:31Isa 65:24Jer 33:32Sa 15:31Act 10:4 This is the word that the LORD 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. Lam 2:13Jer 14:17Job 16:4Mat 27:39Isa 37:21-35Lam 2:15Psa 109:25Psa 22:7-8 Whom 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! Isa 5:24Psa 71:222Th 2:4Isa 30:11-12Isa 30:15Jer 51:52Co 10:52Ki 18:28-35 By 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. 2Ki 18:17Psa 20:7Isa 10:182Ch 26:102Ch 32:172Ki 18:232Ki 18:33-34Ezk 31:3-18 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.” 1Ki 20:102Sa 17:13Dan 4:30Exo 15:9Isa 19:6 Haven’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. Isa 45:7Isa 10:5-6Isa 37:26-27Isa 46:10-11Act 4:27-28Isa 10:15Isa 54:16Psa 33:11 Therefore 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. 1Pe 1:24Isa 40:6-8Jas 1:10-11Jer 37:10Jer 50:36-37Jer 51:30Jer 51:32Num 11:23 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me. Isa 37:28-29Jer 23:23-24Deu 28:6Psa 121:8Psa 139:1-11Deu 28:19 Because 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.’ Ezk 29:42Ki 19:33Ezk 38:4Amo 4:2Isa 30:28Job 41:22Ki 19:36-37Act 7:51
“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. Lev 25:20-222Ki 20:8-9Exo 3:12Isa 37:30Luk 2:121Sa 2:34Isa 7:11-14Lev 25:4-5 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. 2Ki 19:4Isa 27:62Ch 32:22-23Isa 10:20-22Isa 1:9Isa 37:31-32Psa 80:9 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. The LORD’s zeal will perform this. Isa 9:7Isa 10:20Jhn 2:17Rom 11:5Rom 9:27Ezk 20:9Ezk 5:13Isa 59:17
“Therefore the LORD 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. 2Sa 20:15Isa 8:7-10Ezk 21:22Isa 10:24-25Isa 10:28-32Isa 37:33-35Luk 19:43-44 He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says the LORD. 2Ki 19:282Ki 19:36 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’” 1Ki 11:12-132Ki 20:61Ki 15:4Isa 31:5Jer 33:26Isa 38:6Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:21
That night, the LORD’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. 2Ch 32:21-222Sa 24:16Exo 12:29-30Isa 37:361Th 5:2-3Psa 76:5-7Act 12:23Dan 5:30 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home, and lived at Nineveh. Jon 1:22Ki 19:282Ki 19:332Ki 19:7Gen 10:11-12Jon 3:2-10Mat 12:41Nam 1:1 As 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. Ezr 4:2Gen 8:42Ki 19:7Jer 51:272Ch 32:142Ch 32:192Ch 32:212Ki 18:30