2 Kings 19:29-37

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²⁹“This will be the sign^(A) for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,^(B)
    and the second year what springs from that.
But in the third year sow and reap,
    plant vineyards^(C) and eat their fruit.
³⁰Once more a remnant^(D) of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root^(E) below and bear fruit above.
³¹For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,^(F)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.^(G)

“The zeal^(H) of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

³²“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“‘He will not enter this city
    or shoot an arrow here.
He will not come before it with shield
    or build a siege ramp against it.
³³By the way that he came he will return;^(I)
    he will not enter this city,
declares the Lord.
³⁴I will defend^(J) this city and save it,
    for my sake and for the sake of David^(K) my servant.’”

³⁵That night the angel of the Lord^(L) went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!^(M) ³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.^(N) He returned to Nineveh^(O) and stayed there.

³⁷One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek^(P) and Sharezer killed him with the sword,^(Q) and they escaped to the land of Ararat.^(R) And Esarhaddon^(S) his son succeeded him as king.

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