⁴⁴ “When Your people go out to battle against their enemy, wherever You send them, and when they pray to the Lord toward the city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,

¹⁷ Now therefore, our God, hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications, ^(A)and ^(B)for the Lord’s sake ^[a]cause Your face to shine on ^[b]Your sanctuary, ^(C)which is desolate. ^18 (D)O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes ^(E)and see our desolations, and the city ^(F)which is called by Your name; for we do not present our supplications before You because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies. ¹⁹ O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death^(A)

^20 (B)Now because of this King Hezekiah and ^(C)the prophet Isaiah, the son of Amoz, prayed and cried out to heaven.

⁶ and said: “O Lord God of our fathers, are You not ^(A)God in heaven, and ^(B)do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and ^(C)in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You? ⁷ Are You not ^(D)our God, who ^(E)drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham ^(F)Your friend forever? ⁸ And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying, ^9 (G)‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your ^(H)name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’ ¹⁰ And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir—whom You ^(I)would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but ^(J)they turned from them and did not destroy them— ¹¹ here they are, rewarding us ^(K)by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit. ¹² O our God, will You not ^(L)judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but ^(M)our eyes are upon You.”

¹³ Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the Lord.

³¹ So it was, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, “It is the king of Israel!” Therefore they surrounded him to attack; but Jehoshaphat ^(A)cried out, and the Lord helped him, and God diverted them from him.

^9 (A)Then Zerah the Ethiopian came out against them with an army of a million men and three hundred chariots, and he came to ^(B)Mareshah. ¹⁰ So Asa went out against him, and they set the troops in battle array in the Valley of Zephathah at Mareshah. ¹¹ And Asa ^(C)cried out to the Lord his God, and said, “Lord, it is ^(D)nothing for You to help, whether with many or with those who have no power; help us, O Lord our God, for we rest on You, and ^(E)in Your name we go against this multitude. O Lord, You are our God; do not let man prevail against You!”

¹² So the Lord ^(F)struck the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah, and the Ethiopians fled.

³⁴ “When Your people go out to battle against their enemies, wherever You send them, and when they pray to You toward this city which You have chosen and the temple which I have built for Your name,