1And when king Hezekiah had heard this, he tore his garments, and he covered himself with sackcloth, and he entered the house of the Lord.stylus2 Kings 18:37, 1 Kings 21:27, 2 Kings 18:37, 1 Kings 21:27, Genesis 37:342And he sent Eliakim, the first ruler of the house, and Shebnah, the scribe, and the elders from the priests, covered with sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz.stylusIsaiah 1:1, Isaiah 1:1, Isaiah 2:1, Isaiah 2:1, 2 Kings 22:133And they said to him: “Thus says Hezekiah: This day is a day of tribulation, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy. The sons are ready to be born, but the woman in labor does not have the strength.stylusJeremiah 30:5, Jeremiah 30:7, Jeremiah 30:5, Jeremiah 30:7, Hebrews 3:154Perhaps the Lord, your God, may hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of the Assyrians, his lord, sent so that he would reproach the living God, and rebuke with words, which the Lord, your God, has heard. And so, offer a prayer on behalf of the remnant that has been found.”stylus2 Samuel 16:12, 2 Samuel 16:12, Ezekiel 36:37, James 5:16, James 5:175And the servants of king Hezekiah went to Isaiah.stylus6And Isaiah said to them: “So shall you say to your lord. Thus says the Lord: Do not be afraid before the face of the words that you have heard, by which the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed me.stylus2 Kings 18:17, 2 Kings 18:35, 2 Kings 18:17, 2 Kings 18:35, Isaiah 37:67Behold, I will send a spirit to him, and he will hear a report, and he will return to his own land. And I will bring him down by the sword in his own land.”stylus2 Kings 7:6, Obadiah 1:1, 2 Kings 7:6, Obadiah 1:1, 2 Chronicles 32:218Then Rabshakeh returned, and he found the king of the Assyrians fighting against Libnah. For he had heard that he had withdrawn from Lachish.stylus2 Kings 18:14, 2 Kings 18:14, Joshua 10:29, Joshua 10:29, 2 Kings 8:229And when he had heard from Tirhakah, the king of Ethiopia, saying, “Behold, he has gone out so that he may fight against you,” and when he went forth against him, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying:stylus1 Samuel 23:27, 1 Samuel 23:27, Isaiah 37:9, 2 Kings 18:17, Isaiah 37:910“So shall you say to Hezekiah, the king of Judah: Let not your God, in whom you trust, lead you astray. And you should not say, ‘Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.’stylus2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 18:5, 2 Kings 18:29, 2 Kings 18:30, 2 Kings 18:2911For you yourself have heard what the kings of the Assyrians have done to all the lands, the manner in which they have laid waste to them. Therefore, how would you alone be able to be freed?stylus2 Kings 17:5, 2 Kings 17:11, 2 Chronicles 32:13, 2 Chronicles 32:14, 2 Kings 19:1712Have the gods of the nations freed any of those whom my fathers have destroyed, such as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who were at Telassar?stylus2 Kings 17:6, 2 Kings 17:6, Genesis 11:31, Ezekiel 27:23, Genesis 11:3113Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena, and of Avva?”stylus2 Kings 18:34, 2 Kings 18:34, Jeremiah 39:5, Numbers 13:21, Zechariah 9:214And so, when Hezekiah had received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and had read it, he ascended to the house of the Lord, and he spread it out before the Lord.stylusIsaiah 37:14, Isaiah 37:14, Psalms 123:1, Psalms 123:4, Psalms 91:115And he prayed in his sight, saying: “O Lord, God of Israel, who sits upon the cherubim, you alone are God, over all the kings of the earth. You made heaven and earth.stylusExodus 25:22, Exodus 25:22, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:35, Isaiah 44:816Incline your ear, and listen. Open your eyes, O Lord, and see. And hear all the words of Sennacherib, who sent so that he might reproach the living God before us.stylus2 Chronicles 6:40, 2 Kings 19:4, Psalms 31:2, Isaiah 37:17, 2 Chronicles 6:4017Truly, O Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have devastated all peoples and lands.stylusLuke 22:59, 2 Kings 17:6, Job 9:2, Isaiah 5:9, 1 Corinthians 14:2518And they have cast their gods into the fire. For they were not gods, but instead were the works of men’s hands, out of wood and stone. And so they destroyed them.stylusActs 17:29, Acts 17:29, Jeremiah 10:3, Jeremiah 10:9, Isaiah 44:919Now therefore, O Lord our God, bring us salvation from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord God.”stylusPsalms 83:18, Psalms 83:18, 1 Kings 8:43, 1 Kings 8:43, Psalms 67:120Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent to Hezekiah, saying: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: I have heard what you beseeched from me, concerning Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians.stylus2 Kings 20:5, 2 Chronicles 32:20, 2 Chronicles 32:21, 2 Kings 20:5, 2 Chronicles 32:2021This is the word that the Lord has spoken about him: The virgin daughter of Zion has spurned and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head behind your back.stylusLamentations 2:13, Lamentations 2:13, Job 16:4, Jeremiah 14:17, Matthew 27:3922Whom have you reproached, and whom have you blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!stylusIsaiah 5:24, Isaiah 5:24, Psalms 71:22, Psalms 71:22, 2 Thessalonians 2:423By the hand of your servants, you have reproached the Lord, and you have said: ‘By the multitude of my chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the summit of Lebanon. And I have cut down its sublime cedars, and its elect spruce trees. And I have entered even to its limits. And its forest of Carmel,stylusPsalms 20:7, 2 Kings 18:17, Psalms 20:7, 2 Kings 18:17, Isaiah 10:1824I have cut down. And I drank foreign waters, and I dried up all the enclosed waters with the steps of my feet.’stylusExodus 15:9, 2 Samuel 17:13, Isaiah 19:6, 1 Kings 20:10, Daniel 4:3025But have you not heard what I have done from the beginning? From the days of antiquity, I have formed it, and now I have brought it to be. And fortified cities of fighting men will become piles of ruins.stylusIsaiah 45:7, Isaiah 45:7, Isaiah 10:5, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 37:2626And whoever may settle in these, they have trembled, with a weak hand, and they have been confounded. They have become like the hay of the field, and like weeds sprouting on the rooftops, which dry up before they reached maturity.stylus1 Peter 1:24, Numbers 14:9, James 1:10, James 1:11, Psalms 102:1127Your habitation, and your exit, and your entrance, and your way, I knew beforehand, along with your fury against me.stylusIsaiah 37:28, Isaiah 37:29, Jeremiah 23:23, Jeremiah 23:24, Isaiah 37:2828You have been maddened against me, and your arrogance has ascended to my ears. And so, I will place a ring in your nose, and a bit between your lips. And I will lead you back along the way by which you came.stylusEzekiel 29:4, Ezekiel 29:4, 2 Kings 19:33, 2 Kings 19:33, Ezekiel 38:429But as for you, Hezekiah, this shall be a sign: Eat this year whatever you will find, and in the second year, whatever may spring up of itself. But in the third year, sow and reap; plant vineyards, and eat from their fruit.stylusLeviticus 25:20, Leviticus 25:22, Leviticus 25:20, Leviticus 25:22, 2 Kings 20:830And whatever will have been left behind, from the house of Judah, shall send a root downward, and shall bear fruit upward.stylusIsaiah 27:6, 2 Kings 19:4, Isaiah 27:6, 2 Kings 19:4, Isaiah 10:2031Indeed, a remnant shall go forth from Jerusalem, and what may be saved shall go forth from mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall accomplish this.stylusIsaiah 9:7, Isaiah 9:7, Romans 11:5, Isaiah 10:20, Romans 9:2732For this reason, thus says the Lord about the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot an arrow into it, nor overtake it with the shield, nor encircle it with fortifications.stylus2 Samuel 20:15, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:10, 2 Samuel 20:15, Isaiah 8:733By the way that he came, so shall he return. And he shall not enter this city, says the Lord.stylus2 Kings 19:28, 2 Kings 19:28, 2 Kings 19:36, 2 Kings 19:3634And I will protect this city, and I will save it for my own sake, and for the sake of my servant David.”stylus1 Kings 11:12, 1 Kings 11:13, 1 Kings 11:12, 1 Kings 11:13, 2 Kings 20:635And so it happened that, in the same night, an Angel of the Lord went and struck down, in the camp of the Assyrians, one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when he had risen up, at first light, he saw all the bodies of the dead. And withdrawing, he went away.stylus2 Chronicles 32:21, 2 Chronicles 32:22, 2 Chronicles 32:21, 2 Chronicles 32:22, 2 Samuel 24:1636And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, returned and dwelled in Nineveh.stylusJonah 1:2, Jonah 1:2, 2 Kings 19:33, 2 Kings 19:28, 2 Kings 19:737And while he was worshipping in the temple of his god, Nisroch, his sons, Adram-melech and Sharezer, struck him with the sword. And they fled into the land of the Armenians. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his place.stylusEzra 4:2, Genesis 8:4, Ezra 4:2, Genesis 8:4, 2 Kings 19:7