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The King Asks Isaiah’s Advice

37As soon as King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes in grief, put on sackcloth, and went to the Temple of the LORD.H4428H2396H8085H7167H899H3680H8242H935H1004H3068 2He sent Eliakim, the official in charge of the palace, Shebna, the court secretary, and the senior priests to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. They also were wearing sackcloth.H7971H471H1004H7644H5608H2205H3548H3680H8242H3470H5030H1121H531 3This is the message which he told them to give to Isaiah: "Today is a day of suffering; we are being punished and are in disgrace. We are like a woman who is ready to give birth, but is too weak to do it.H559H559H2396H3117H3117H6869H8433H5007H1121H935H4866H3581H3205 4The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the LORD your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive."H3068H430H8085H1697H7262H4428H804H113H7971H2778H2416H430H3198H1697H3068H430H8085H5375H8605H7611H4672 5When Isaiah received King Hezekiah's message,H5650H4428H2396H935H3470 6he sent back this answer: "The LORD tells you not to let the Assyrians frighten you by their claims that he cannot save you.H3470H559H559H113H559H3068H3372H6440H1697H8085H5288H4428H804H1442 7The LORD will cause the emperor to hear a rumor that will make him go back to his own country, and the LORD will have him killed there."H5414H7307H8085H8052H7725H776H5307H2719H776

The Assyrians Send Another Threat

8The Assyrian official learned that the emperor had left Lachish and was fighting against the nearby city of Libnah; so he went there to consult him.H7262H7725H4672H4428H804H3898H3841H8085H5265H3923 9Word reached the Assyrians that the Egyptian army, led by King Tirhakah of Ethiopia, was coming to attack them. When the emperor heard this, he sent a letter to King HezekiahH8085H559H8640H4428H3568H3318H3898H8085H7971H4397H2396H559 10of Judah to tell him: "The god you are trusting in has told you that you will not fall into my hands, but don't let that deceive you.H559H2396H4428H3063H559H430H982H5377H559H3389H5414H3027H4428H804 11You have heard what an Assyrian emperor does to any country he decides to destroy. Do you think that you can escape?H8085H4428H804H6213H776H2763H5337 12My ancestors destroyed the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and killed the people of Betheden who lived in Telassar, and none of their gods could save them.H430H1471H5337H1H7843H1470H2771H7530H1121H5729H8515 13Where are the kings of the cities of Hamath, Arpad, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?"H4428H2574H4428H774H4428H5892H5617H2012H5755 14King Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went to the Temple, placed the letter there in the presence of the LORD,H2396H3947H5612H3027H4397H7121H2396H5927H1004H3068H6566H6440H3068 15and prayed,H2396H6419H3068H559 16"Almighty LORD, God of Israel, seated above the winged creatures, you alone are God, ruling all the kingdoms of the world. You created the earth and the sky.H3068H6635H430H3478H3427H3742H430H4467H776H6213H8064H776 17Now, LORD, hear us and look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God.H5186H241H3068H8085H6491H5869H3068H7200H8085H1697H5576H7971H2778H2416H430 18We all know, LORD, that the emperors of Assyria have destroyed many nations, made their lands desolate,H551H3068H4428H804H2717H776H776 19and burned up their gods - which were no gods at all, only images of wood and stone made by human hands.H5414H430H784H430H4639H120H3027H6086H68H6 20Now, LORD our God, rescue us from the Assyrians, so that all the nations of the world will know that you alone are God."H3068H430H3467H3027H4467H776H3045H3068

Isaiah’s Message to the King

21Then Isaiah sent a message telling King Hezekiah that in answer to the king's prayerH3470H1121H531H7971H2396H559H559H3068H430H3478H6419H5576H4428H804 22the LORD had said, "The city of Jerusalem laughs at you, Sennacherib, and makes fun of you.H1697H3068H1696H1330H1323H6726H959H3932H1323H3389H5128H7218H310 23Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.H2778H1442H7311H6963H5375H5869H4791H6918H3478 24You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests.H3027H5650H2778H136H559H7230H7393H5927H4791H2022H3411H3844H3772H6967H730H4005H1265H935H4791H7093H3293H3760 25You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands, and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry.H6979H8354H4325H3709H6471H2717H2975H4693 26"Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.H8085H7350H6213H6924H3117H3335H935H7582H1219H5892H5327H1530 27The people who lived there were powerless; they were frightened and stunned. They were like grass in a field or weeds growing on a roof when the hot east wind blasts them.H3427H7116H3027H2865H954H6212H7704H3419H1877H2682H1406H7709H6440H7054 28"But I know everything about you, what you do and where you go. I know how you rage against me.H3045H3427H3318H935H7264 29I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came."H7264H7600H5927H241H7760H2397H639H4964H8193H7725H1870H935 30Then Isaiah said to King Hezekiah, "Here is a sign of what will happen. This year and next you will have only wild grain to eat, but the following year you will be able to plant grain and harvest it, and plant vines and eat grapes.H226H398H8141H5599H8145H8141H7823H7992H8141H2232H7114H5193H3754H398H6529 31Those in Judah who survive will flourish like plants that send roots deep into the ground and produce fruit.H7604H6413H1004H3063H3254H8328H4295H6213H6529H4605 32There will be people in Jerusalem and on Mount Zion who will survive, because the LORD Almighty is determined to make this happen.H3389H3318H7611H6413H2022H6726H7068H3068H6635H6213 33"And this is what the LORD has said about the Assyrian emperor: 'He will not enter this city or shoot a single arrow against it. No soldiers with shields will come near the city, and no siege mounds will be built around it.H559H3068H4428H804H935H5892H3384H2671H6923H4043H8210H5550 34He will go back by the same road he came, without entering this city. I, the LORD, have spoken.H1870H935H7725H935H5892H5002H3068 35I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.' "H1598H5892H3467H5650H1732 36An angel of the LORD went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!H4397H3068H3318H5221H4264H804H3967H8084H2568H505H7925H1242H4191H6297 37Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.H5576H4428H804H5265H3212H7725H3427H5210 38One day when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords and then escaped to the land of Ararat. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon, succeeded him as emperor.H7812H1004H5268H430H152H8272H1121H5221H2719H4422H776H780H634H1121H4427


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