Isaiah 37:1 When King Hezekiah heard the report, he also tore his clothes and dressed in rough, penitential burlap gunnysacks, and went into the sanctuary of God. He sen...

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The Message - When King Hezekiah heard the report, he also tore his clothes and dressed in rough, penitential burlap gunnysacks, and went into the sanctuary of God. He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, all of them also dressed in penitential burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
新标点和合本 - 希西家王听见就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，进了耶和华的殿。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，进了耶和华的殿。
当代译本 - 希西迦王听后就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，进入耶和华的殿。
圣经新译本 - 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
中文标准译本 - 希西加王听了就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进入耶和华的殿。
现代标点和合本 - 希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
和合本（拼音版） - 希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
New International Version - When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord.
New International Reader's Version - When King Hezekiah heard what the field commander had said, he tore his clothes. He put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. Then he went into the Lord’s temple.
English Standard Version - As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
New Living Translation - When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put on burlap and went into the Temple of the Lord.
Christian Standard Bible - When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
New American Standard Bible - Now when King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.
New King James Version - And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
Amplified Bible - And when King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
American Standard Version - 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 Jehovah.
King James Version - 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.
New English Translation - When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
World English Bible - When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
新標點和合本 - 希西家王聽見就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 希西家王聽見了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進了耶和華的殿。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 希西家王聽見了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進了耶和華的殿。
當代譯本 - 希西迦王聽後就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進入耶和華的殿。
聖經新譯本 - 希西家王聽見了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿。
呂振中譯本 - 希西家王聽見，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了永恆主的殿。
中文標準譯本 - 希西加王聽了就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進入耶和華的殿。
現代標點和合本 - 希西家王聽見，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿。
文理和合譯本 - 希西家王聞之、自裂其衣、披麻入耶和華室、
文理委辦譯本 - 希西家王聞言、自裂其衣、衣麻進耶和華殿、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 希西家聞之、自裂其衣、衣麻、入主之殿、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Cuando el rey Ezequías escuchó esto, se rasgó las vestiduras, se vistió de luto y fue al templo del Señor.
현대인의 성경 - 히스기야왕은 그들의 말을 듣고 자기 옷을 찢으며 삼베 옷을 입고 기 도하려고 여호와의 성전으로 들어갔다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, надел рубище и пошел в дом Господа.
Восточный перевод - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, оделся в рубище и пошёл в храм Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, оделся в рубище и пошёл в храм Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, оделся в рубище и пошёл в храм Вечного.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Lorsque le roi Ezéchias eut entendu leur rapport, il déchira ses vêtements, se couvrit d’un vêtement d’étoffe grossière et se rendit au temple de l’Eternel.
リビングバイブル - 王は会談の結果を聞いて王服を裂き、屈辱と嘆きを示して、目のあらい布を身にまといました。それから、祈るために神殿に行きました。
Nova Versão Internacional - Quando o rei Ezequias soube disso, rasgou suas vestes, vestiu pano de saco e entrou no templo do Senhor.
Hoffnung für alle - Als König Hiskia das hörte, zerriss auch er seine Kleider und hüllte sich in ein Trauergewand. Dann ging er in den Tempel des Herrn.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vua Ê-xê-chia vừa nghe xong các lời báo, vua liền xé áo mình và mặc áo vải gai rồi đi vào Đền Thờ của Chúa Hằng Hữu.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อกษัตริย์เฮเซคียาห์ทรงได้ยินเช่นนั้นก็ทรงฉีกฉลองพระองค์ สวมผ้ากระสอบ แล้วเสด็จเข้าสู่พระวิหารขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ทันทีที่กษัตริย์เฮเซคียาห์ได้ยินเรื่องทั้งหมด ท่านก็ฉีกเสื้อของท่าน นุ่งห่มด้วยผ้ากระสอบ และเข้าไปในพระตำหนักของพระผู้เป็นเจ้า

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Jeremiah 36:24 - Neither the king nor any of his officials showed the slightest twinge of conscience as they listened to the messages read. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah tried to convince the king not to burn the scroll, but he brushed them off. He just plowed ahead and ordered Prince Jerahameel, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Jeremiah the prophet and his secretary Baruch. But God had hidden them away. * * *
Jonah 3:5 - The people of Nineveh listened, and trusted God. They proclaimed a citywide fast and dressed in burlap to show their repentance. Everyone did it—rich and poor, famous and obscure, leaders and followers.
Jonah 3:6 - When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up off his throne, threw down his royal robes, dressed in burlap, and sat down in the dirt. Then he issued a public proclamation throughout Nineveh, authorized by him and his leaders: “Not one drop of water, not one bite of food for man, woman, or animal, including your herds and flocks! Dress them all, both people and animals, in burlap, and send up a cry for help to God. Everyone must turn around, turn back from an evil life and the violent ways that stain their hands. Who knows? Maybe God will turn around and change his mind about us, quit being angry with us and let us live!”
Isaiah 36:22 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, tearing their clothes in defeat and despair, went back and reported what the Rabshekah had said to Hezekiah.
Job 1:20 - Job got to his feet, ripped his robe, shaved his head, then fell to the ground and worshiped:
Job 1:21 - Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I’ll return to the womb of the earth. God gives, God takes. God’s name be ever blessed.
Matthew 11:21 - “Doom to you, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had seen half of the powerful miracles you have seen, they would have been on their knees in a minute. At Judgment Day they’ll get off easy compared to you. And Capernaum! With all your peacock strutting, you are going to end up in the abyss. If the people of Sodom had had your chances, the city would still be around. At Judgment Day they’ll get off easy compared to you.”
2 Kings 22:11 - When the king heard what was written in the book, God’s Revelation, he ripped his robes in dismay. And then he called for Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the royal secretary, and Asaiah the king’s personal aide. He ordered them all: “Go and pray to God for me and for this people—for all Judah! Find out what we must do in response to what is written in this book that has just been found! God’s anger must be burning furiously against us—our ancestors haven’t obeyed a thing written in this book, followed none of the instructions directed to us.”
2 Kings 19:1 - When Hezekiah heard it all, he too ripped his robes apart and dressed himself in rough burlap. Then he went into The Temple of God. He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, all of them dressed in rough burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. They said to him, “A message from Hezekiah: ‘This is a black day, a terrible day—doomsday! Babies poised to be born, No strength to birth them.
2 Kings 19:4 - “‘Maybe God, your God, has been listening to the blasphemous speech of the Rabshakeh who was sent by the king of Assyria, his master, to humiliate the living God; maybe God, your God, won’t let him get by with such talk; and you, maybe you will lift up prayers for what’s left of these people.’”
2 Kings 19:5 - That’s the message King Hezekiah’s servants delivered to Isaiah.
2 Kings 19:6 - Isaiah answered them, “Tell your master, ‘God’s word: Don’t be at all concerned about what you’ve heard from the king of Assyria’s bootlicking errand boys—these outrageous blasphemies. Here’s what I’m going to do: Afflict him with self-doubt. He’s going to hear a rumor and, frightened for his life, retreat to his own country. Once there, I’ll see to it that he gets killed.’”
2 Kings 19:8 - The Rabshakeh left and found that the king of Assyria had pulled up stakes from Lachish and was now fighting against Libnah. Then Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush was on his way to fight against him. So he sent another envoy with orders to deliver this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: “Don’t let that god that you think so much of keep stringing you along with the line, ‘Jerusalem will never fall to the king of Assyria.’ That’s a barefaced lie. You know the track record of the kings of Assyria—country after country laid waste, devastated. And what makes you think you’ll be an exception? Take a good look at these wasted nations, destroyed by my ancestors; did their gods do them any good? Look at Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, the people of Eden at Tel Assar. Ruins. And what’s left of the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Sepharvaim, of Hena, of Ivvah? Bones.”
2 Kings 19:14 - Hezekiah took the letter from the envoy and read it. He went to The Temple of God and spread it out before God. And Hezekiah prayed—oh, how he prayed! God, God of Israel, seated in majesty on the cherubim-throne. You are the one and only God, sovereign over all kingdoms on earth, Maker of heaven, maker of earth.
2 Kings 19:16 - Open your ears, God, and listen, open your eyes and look. Look at this letter Sennacherib has sent, a brazen insult to the living God!
2 Kings 19:17 - The facts are true, O God: The kings of Assyria have laid waste countries and kingdoms.
2 Kings 19:18 - Huge bonfires they made of their gods, their no-gods hand-made from wood and stone.
2 Kings 19:19 - But now O God, our God, save us from raw Assyrian power; Make all the kingdoms on earth know that you are God, the one and only God.
2 Kings 19:20 - It wasn’t long before Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah: God’s word: You’ve prayed to me regarding Sennacherib king of Assyria; I’ve heard your prayer. This is my response to him: The Virgin Daughter of Zion holds you in utter contempt; Daughter Jerusalem thinks you’re nothing but scum.
2 Kings 19:22 - Who do you think it is you’ve insulted? Who do you think you’ve been bad-mouthing? Before whom do you suppose you’ve been strutting? The Holy One of Israel, that’s who!
2 Kings 19:23 - You dispatched your errand boys to humiliate the Master. You bragged, “With my army of chariots I’ve climbed the highest mountains, snow-peaked alpine Lebanon mountains! I’ve cut down its giant cedars, chopped down its prize pine trees. I’ve traveled the world, visited the finest forest retreats.
2 Kings 19:24 - I’ve dug wells in faraway places and drunk their exotic waters; I’ve waded and splashed barefoot in the rivers of Egypt.”
2 Kings 19:25 - Did it never occur to you that I’m behind all this? Long, long ago I drew up the plans, and now I’ve gone into action, Using you as a doomsday weapon, reducing proud cities to piles of rubble,
2 Kings 19:26 - Leaving their people dispirited, slumped shoulders, limp souls. Useless as weeds, fragile as grass, insubstantial as wind-blown chaff.
2 Kings 19:27 - I know when you sit down, when you come and when you go; And, yes, I’ve marked every one of your temper tantrums against me.
2 Kings 19:28 - It’s because of your temper, your blasphemous foul temper, That I’m putting my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth And turning you back to where you came from.
2 Kings 19:29 - And this, Hezekiah, will be for you the confirming sign: This year you’ll eat the gleanings, next year whatever you can beg, borrow, or steal; But the third year you’ll sow and harvest, plant vineyards and eat grapes.
2 Kings 19:30 - A remnant of the family of Judah yet again will sink down roots and raise up fruit.
2 Kings 19:31 - The remnant will come from Jerusalem, the survivors from Mount Zion. The Zeal of God will make it happen.
2 Kings 19:32 - To sum up, this is what God says regarding the king of Assyria: He won’t enter this city, nor shoot so much as a single arrow there; Won’t brandish a shield, won’t even begin to set siege;
2 Kings 19:33 - He’ll go home by the same road he came; he won’t enter this city. God’s word!
2 Kings 19:34 - I’ll shield this city, I’ll save this city, for my sake and for David’s sake.
2 Kings 19:35 - And it so happened that that very night an angel of God came and massacred 185,000 Assyrians. When the people of Jerusalem got up next morning, there it was—a whole camp of corpses!
2 Kings 19:36 - Sennacherib king of Assyria got out of there fast, headed straight home for Nineveh, and stayed put. One day when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer murdered him and then escaped to the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon became the next king.

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The Message - When King Hezekiah heard the report, he also tore his clothes and dressed in rough, penitential burlap gunnysacks, and went into the sanctuary of God. He sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, all of them also dressed in penitential burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
新标点和合本 - 希西家王听见就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，进了耶和华的殿。
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，进了耶和华的殿。
当代译本 - 希西迦王听后就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，进入耶和华的殿。
圣经新译本 - 希西家王听见了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
中文标准译本 - 希西加王听了就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进入耶和华的殿。
现代标点和合本 - 希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
和合本（拼音版） - 希西家王听见，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，进了耶和华的殿。
New International Version - When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and went into the temple of the Lord.
New International Reader's Version - When King Hezekiah heard what the field commander had said, he tore his clothes. He put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. Then he went into the Lord’s temple.
English Standard Version - As soon as King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
New Living Translation - When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes and put on burlap and went into the Temple of the Lord.
Christian Standard Bible - When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
New American Standard Bible - Now when King Hezekiah heard the report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord.
New King James Version - And so it was, when King Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
Amplified Bible - And when King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth and went into the house of the Lord.
American Standard Version - 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 Jehovah.
King James Version - 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.
New English Translation - When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord’s temple.
World English Bible - When king Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
新標點和合本 - 希西家王聽見就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 希西家王聽見了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進了耶和華的殿。
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 希西家王聽見了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進了耶和華的殿。
當代譯本 - 希西迦王聽後就撕裂衣服，披上麻衣，進入耶和華的殿。
聖經新譯本 - 希西家王聽見了，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿。
呂振中譯本 - 希西家王聽見，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了永恆主的殿。
中文標準譯本 - 希西加王聽了就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進入耶和華的殿。
現代標點和合本 - 希西家王聽見，就撕裂衣服，披上麻布，進了耶和華的殿。
文理和合譯本 - 希西家王聞之、自裂其衣、披麻入耶和華室、
文理委辦譯本 - 希西家王聞言、自裂其衣、衣麻進耶和華殿、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 希西家聞之、自裂其衣、衣麻、入主之殿、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Cuando el rey Ezequías escuchó esto, se rasgó las vestiduras, se vistió de luto y fue al templo del Señor.
현대인의 성경 - 히스기야왕은 그들의 말을 듣고 자기 옷을 찢으며 삼베 옷을 입고 기 도하려고 여호와의 성전으로 들어갔다.
Новый Русский Перевод - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, надел рубище и пошел в дом Господа.
Восточный перевод - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, оделся в рубище и пошёл в храм Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, оделся в рубище и пошёл в храм Вечного.
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Когда царь Езекия услышал это, он разорвал на себе одежду, оделся в рубище и пошёл в храм Вечного.
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Lorsque le roi Ezéchias eut entendu leur rapport, il déchira ses vêtements, se couvrit d’un vêtement d’étoffe grossière et se rendit au temple de l’Eternel.
リビングバイブル - 王は会談の結果を聞いて王服を裂き、屈辱と嘆きを示して、目のあらい布を身にまといました。それから、祈るために神殿に行きました。
Nova Versão Internacional - Quando o rei Ezequias soube disso, rasgou suas vestes, vestiu pano de saco e entrou no templo do Senhor.
Hoffnung für alle - Als König Hiskia das hörte, zerriss auch er seine Kleider und hüllte sich in ein Trauergewand. Dann ging er in den Tempel des Herrn.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vua Ê-xê-chia vừa nghe xong các lời báo, vua liền xé áo mình và mặc áo vải gai rồi đi vào Đền Thờ của Chúa Hằng Hữu.
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อกษัตริย์เฮเซคียาห์ทรงได้ยินเช่นนั้นก็ทรงฉีกฉลองพระองค์ สวมผ้ากระสอบ แล้วเสด็จเข้าสู่พระวิหารขององค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้า
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ทันทีที่กษัตริย์เฮเซคียาห์ได้ยินเรื่องทั้งหมด ท่านก็ฉีกเสื้อของท่าน นุ่งห่มด้วยผ้ากระสอบ และเข้าไปในพระตำหนักของพระผู้เป็นเจ้า

Jeremiah 36:24 - Neither the king nor any of his officials showed the slightest twinge of conscience as they listened to the messages read. Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah tried to convince the king not to burn the scroll, but he brushed them off. He just plowed ahead and ordered Prince Jerahameel, Seraiah son of Azriel, and Shelemiah son of Abdeel to arrest Jeremiah the prophet and his secretary Baruch. But God had hidden them away. * * *
Jonah 3:5 - The people of Nineveh listened, and trusted God. They proclaimed a citywide fast and dressed in burlap to show their repentance. Everyone did it—rich and poor, famous and obscure, leaders and followers.
Jonah 3:6 - When the message reached the king of Nineveh, he got up off his throne, threw down his royal robes, dressed in burlap, and sat down in the dirt. Then he issued a public proclamation throughout Nineveh, authorized by him and his leaders: “Not one drop of water, not one bite of food for man, woman, or animal, including your herds and flocks! Dress them all, both people and animals, in burlap, and send up a cry for help to God. Everyone must turn around, turn back from an evil life and the violent ways that stain their hands. Who knows? Maybe God will turn around and change his mind about us, quit being angry with us and let us live!”
Isaiah 36:22 - Then Eliakim son of Hilkiah, the palace administrator, Shebna the secretary, and Joah son of Asaph, the court historian, tearing their clothes in defeat and despair, went back and reported what the Rabshekah had said to Hezekiah.
Job 1:20 - Job got to his feet, ripped his robe, shaved his head, then fell to the ground and worshiped:
Job 1:21 - Naked I came from my mother’s womb, naked I’ll return to the womb of the earth. God gives, God takes. God’s name be ever blessed.
Matthew 11:21 - “Doom to you, Chorazin! Doom, Bethsaida! If Tyre and Sidon had seen half of the powerful miracles you have seen, they would have been on their knees in a minute. At Judgment Day they’ll get off easy compared to you. And Capernaum! With all your peacock strutting, you are going to end up in the abyss. If the people of Sodom had had your chances, the city would still be around. At Judgment Day they’ll get off easy compared to you.”
2 Kings 22:11 - When the king heard what was written in the book, God’s Revelation, he ripped his robes in dismay. And then he called for Hilkiah the priest, Ahikam son of Shaphan, Acbor son of Micaiah, Shaphan the royal secretary, and Asaiah the king’s personal aide. He ordered them all: “Go and pray to God for me and for this people—for all Judah! Find out what we must do in response to what is written in this book that has just been found! God’s anger must be burning furiously against us—our ancestors haven’t obeyed a thing written in this book, followed none of the instructions directed to us.”
2 Kings 19:1 - When Hezekiah heard it all, he too ripped his robes apart and dressed himself in rough burlap. Then he went into The Temple of God. He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the secretary, and the senior priests, all of them dressed in rough burlap, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. They said to him, “A message from Hezekiah: ‘This is a black day, a terrible day—doomsday! Babies poised to be born, No strength to birth them.
2 Kings 19:4 - “‘Maybe God, your God, has been listening to the blasphemous speech of the Rabshakeh who was sent by the king of Assyria, his master, to humiliate the living God; maybe God, your God, won’t let him get by with such talk; and you, maybe you will lift up prayers for what’s left of these people.’”
2 Kings 19:5 - That’s the message King Hezekiah’s servants delivered to Isaiah.
2 Kings 19:6 - Isaiah answered them, “Tell your master, ‘God’s word: Don’t be at all concerned about what you’ve heard from the king of Assyria’s bootlicking errand boys—these outrageous blasphemies. Here’s what I’m going to do: Afflict him with self-doubt. He’s going to hear a rumor and, frightened for his life, retreat to his own country. Once there, I’ll see to it that he gets killed.’”
2 Kings 19:8 - The Rabshakeh left and found that the king of Assyria had pulled up stakes from Lachish and was now fighting against Libnah. Then Sennacherib heard that Tirhakah king of Cush was on his way to fight against him. So he sent another envoy with orders to deliver this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: “Don’t let that god that you think so much of keep stringing you along with the line, ‘Jerusalem will never fall to the king of Assyria.’ That’s a barefaced lie. You know the track record of the kings of Assyria—country after country laid waste, devastated. And what makes you think you’ll be an exception? Take a good look at these wasted nations, destroyed by my ancestors; did their gods do them any good? Look at Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, the people of Eden at Tel Assar. Ruins. And what’s left of the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of Sepharvaim, of Hena, of Ivvah? Bones.”
2 Kings 19:14 - Hezekiah took the letter from the envoy and read it. He went to The Temple of God and spread it out before God. And Hezekiah prayed—oh, how he prayed! God, God of Israel, seated in majesty on the cherubim-throne. You are the one and only God, sovereign over all kingdoms on earth, Maker of heaven, maker of earth.
2 Kings 19:16 - Open your ears, God, and listen, open your eyes and look. Look at this letter Sennacherib has sent, a brazen insult to the living God!
2 Kings 19:17 - The facts are true, O God: The kings of Assyria have laid waste countries and kingdoms.
2 Kings 19:18 - Huge bonfires they made of their gods, their no-gods hand-made from wood and stone.
2 Kings 19:19 - But now O God, our God, save us from raw Assyrian power; Make all the kingdoms on earth know that you are God, the one and only God.
2 Kings 19:20 - It wasn’t long before Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah: God’s word: You’ve prayed to me regarding Sennacherib king of Assyria; I’ve heard your prayer. This is my response to him: The Virgin Daughter of Zion holds you in utter contempt; Daughter Jerusalem thinks you’re nothing but scum.
2 Kings 19:22 - Who do you think it is you’ve insulted? Who do you think you’ve been bad-mouthing? Before whom do you suppose you’ve been strutting? The Holy One of Israel, that’s who!
2 Kings 19:23 - You dispatched your errand boys to humiliate the Master. You bragged, “With my army of chariots I’ve climbed the highest mountains, snow-peaked alpine Lebanon mountains! I’ve cut down its giant cedars, chopped down its prize pine trees. I’ve traveled the world, visited the finest forest retreats.
2 Kings 19:24 - I’ve dug wells in faraway places and drunk their exotic waters; I’ve waded and splashed barefoot in the rivers of Egypt.”
2 Kings 19:25 - Did it never occur to you that I’m behind all this? Long, long ago I drew up the plans, and now I’ve gone into action, Using you as a doomsday weapon, reducing proud cities to piles of rubble,
2 Kings 19:26 - Leaving their people dispirited, slumped shoulders, limp souls. Useless as weeds, fragile as grass, insubstantial as wind-blown chaff.
2 Kings 19:27 - I know when you sit down, when you come and when you go; And, yes, I’ve marked every one of your temper tantrums against me.
2 Kings 19:28 - It’s because of your temper, your blasphemous foul temper, That I’m putting my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth And turning you back to where you came from.
2 Kings 19:29 - And this, Hezekiah, will be for you the confirming sign: This year you’ll eat the gleanings, next year whatever you can beg, borrow, or steal; But the third year you’ll sow and harvest, plant vineyards and eat grapes.
2 Kings 19:30 - A remnant of the family of Judah yet again will sink down roots and raise up fruit.
2 Kings 19:31 - The remnant will come from Jerusalem, the survivors from Mount Zion. The Zeal of God will make it happen.
2 Kings 19:32 - To sum up, this is what God says regarding the king of Assyria: He won’t enter this city, nor shoot so much as a single arrow there; Won’t brandish a shield, won’t even begin to set siege;
2 Kings 19:33 - He’ll go home by the same road he came; he won’t enter this city. God’s word!
2 Kings 19:34 - I’ll shield this city, I’ll save this city, for my sake and for David’s sake.
2 Kings 19:35 - And it so happened that that very night an angel of God came and massacred 185,000 Assyrians. When the people of Jerusalem got up next morning, there it was—a whole camp of corpses!
2 Kings 19:36 - Sennacherib king of Assyria got out of there fast, headed straight home for Nineveh, and stayed put. One day when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer murdered him and then escaped to the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon became the next king.