Chapter 19
- 19:1
- And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered
himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the LORD.
- 19:2
- And he sent Eliakim, which 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.
- 19:3
- And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of
rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength
to bring forth.
- 19:4
- It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of
Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which
the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
- 19:5
- So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
- 19:6
- And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the LORD, Be not
afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me.
- 19:7
- Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to
his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
- 19:8
- So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had
heard that he was departed from Lachish.
- 19:9
- And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight
against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,
- 19:10
- Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou
trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king
of Assyria.
- 19:11
- Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying
them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?
- 19:12
- Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan,
and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?
- 19:13
- Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of
Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?
- 19:14
- And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and
Hezekiah went up into the house of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
- 19:15
- And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest
between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the
earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.
- 19:16
- LORD, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, LORD, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words
of Sennacherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living God.
- 19:17
- Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,
- 19:18
- 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.
- 19:19
- Now therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all
the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art the LORD God, even thou only.
- 19:20
- Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.
- 19:21
- This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of
Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken
her head at thee.
- 19:22
- Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice,
and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.
- 19:23
- By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my
chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will
cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter
into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.
- 19:24
- I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all
the rivers of besieged places.
- 19:25
- Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed
it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into
ruinous heaps.
- 19:26
- Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they
were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and
as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- 19:27
- But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
- 19:28
- Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will
put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way
by which thou camest.
- 19:29
- And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of
themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year
sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.
- 19:30
- And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root
downward, and bear fruit upward.
- 19:31
- For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion:
the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
- 19:32
- Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into
this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank
against it.
- 19:33
- By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city,
saith the LORD.
- 19:34
- For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David's
sake.
- 19:35
- And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the
camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in
the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- 19:36
- So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
- 19:37
- And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that
Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land
of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.