2 Kings 19

New American Standard Bible

Isaiah Encourages Hezekiah

19 ^(A)Now when King Hezekiah heard the report, he ^(B)tore his clothes, ^(C)covered himself with sackcloth, and entered the house of the Lord. ²Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the household, with Shebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, ^(D)covered with sackcloth, to ^(E)Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz. ³And they said to him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and humiliation; for children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. ⁴^(F)Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent ^(G)to taunt the living God, and will avenge the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for ^(H)the remnant that is ^[a]left.’” ⁵So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ⁶And Isaiah said to them, “This is what you shall say to your master: ‘The Lord says this: “Do not be fearful because of the words that you have heard, with which the ^(I)servants of the king of Assyria ^(J)have blasphemed Me. ⁷Behold, I am going to put a spirit in him so that ^(K)he will hear news and return to his own land. And ^(L)I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Sennacherib Defies God

⁸Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against ^(M)Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left ^(N)Lachish. ⁹When he heard them say about Tirhakah king of ^[b]Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, ¹⁰“This is what you shall say to Hezekiah king of ^[c]Judah: ‘Do not ^(O)let your God in whom you trust deceive you by saying, “^(P)Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.” ¹¹Behold, you yourself have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be saved? ¹²^(Q)Did the gods of the nations which my fathers destroyed save them: ^(R)Gozan, ^(S)Haran, Rezeph, and ^(T)the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? ¹³^(U)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, and of Hena and Ivvah?’”

Hezekiah’s Prayer

¹⁴Then ^(V)Hezekiah took the ^[d]letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Lord and ^[e]spread it out before the Lord. ¹⁵Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “Lord, God of Israel, ^[f]^(W)enthroned above the cherubim, ^(X)You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. ¹⁶^(Y)Incline Your ear, Lord, and hear; ^(Z)open Your eyes, Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent ^(AA)to taunt the living God. ¹⁷It is true, Lord; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, ¹⁸and have ^[g]hurled their gods into the fire; ^(AB)for they were not gods, but only the work of human hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. ¹⁹But now, Lord our God, please, save us from his hand, ^(AC)so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, ^(AD)Lord, are God.”

God’s Answer through Isaiah

²⁰Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel says: ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria, ^(AE)I have heard you.’ ²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him:

‘She, ^(AF)the virgin daughter of Zion, has shown contempt for you and mocked you;
She, the daughter of Jerusalem, ^(AG)has shaken her head behind you!
²²Whom have you ^(AH)taunted and ^(AI)blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
And ^[h]haughtily raised your eyes?
Against the ^(AJ)Holy One of Israel!
²³^(AK)Through your messengers you have taunted the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I went up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I cut down its tall cedars and its choicest junipers.
And I entered its farthest resting place, its ^(AL)thickest forest.
²⁴I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the soles of my feet I ^(AM)dried up
All the streams of Egypt.”

²⁵‘^(AN)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
^(AO)Now I have brought it about,
That you would turn fortified cities into ruined heaps.
²⁶Therefore their inhabitants were ^[i]powerless,
They were shattered and put to shame.
They were ^(AP)like the vegetation of the field and the green grass,
Like grass on the housetops that is scorched before it has grown.
²⁷But ^(AQ)I know your sitting down,
Your going out, your coming in,
And your raging against Me.
²⁸Because of your raging against Me,
And because your complacency has come up to My ears,
I ^(AR)will put My hook in your nose,
And My bridle in your lips,
And ^(AS)I will turn you back by the way by which you came.

²⁹‘Then this shall be ^(AT)the sign for you: ^[j]you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what grows by itself, and in the third year sow, harvest, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. ³⁰^(AU)The survivors that are left of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For out of Jerusalem will go a remnant, and survivors ^(AV)out of Mount Zion. ^(AW)The zeal of ^[k]the Lord will perform this.

³²‘Therefore this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: “^(AX)He will not come to this city nor shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield nor heap up an assault ramp against it. ³³^(AY)By the way that he came, by ^[l]the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord. ³⁴‘^(AZ)For I will protect this city to save it for My own sake, and ^(BA)for My servant David’s sake.’”

³⁵^(BB)Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the rest got up early in the morning, behold, all of ^[m]the 185,000 were ^[n]dead. ³⁶So ^(BC)Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and ^[o]returned home, and lived at ^(BD)Nineveh. ³⁷Then it came about, as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that ^[p]^(BE)Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped to ^(BF)the land of Ararat. And his son ^(BG)Esarhaddon became king in his place.

Footnotes

2 Kings 19:4 Lit found
2 Kings 19:9 Or Ethiopia
2 Kings 19:10 Lit Judah, saying,
2 Kings 19:14 Lit letters...read them
2 Kings 19:14 Lit Hezekiah spread
2 Kings 19:15 Lit sitting
2 Kings 19:18 Lit given
2 Kings 19:22 Lit on high
2 Kings 19:26 Lit short of hand
2 Kings 19:29 Lit to eat
2 Kings 19:31 Some ancient mss the Lord of armies
2 Kings 19:33 Lit it
2 Kings 19:35 Lit them
2 Kings 19:35 Lit dead bodies
2 Kings 19:36 Lit went and returned
2 Kings 19:37 Some ancient mss his sons Adrammelech

Hebrews 1

New American Standard Bible

God’s Final Word in His Son

1 God, after He ^(A)spoke long ago to the fathers in ^(B)the prophets in many portions and ^(C)in many ways, ²^[a]^(D)in these last days ^(E)has spoken to us ^[b]in His ^(F)Son, whom He appointed ^(G)heir of all things, ^(H)through whom He also made the ^[c]^(I)world. ³^[d]And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact ^(J)representation of His nature, and ^[e]^(K)upholds all things by ^[f]the word of His power. When He had made ^(L)purification of sins, He ^(M)sat down at the right hand of the ^(N)Majesty on high, ⁴having become so much better than the angels, to the extent that He has inherited a more excellent ^(O)name than they.

⁵For to which of the angels did He ever say,

“^(P)You are My Son,
Today I have fathered You”?

And again,

“^(Q)I will be a Father to Him
And He will be a Son to Me”?

⁶And ^[g]when He again ^(R)brings the firstborn into ^[h]^(S)the world, He says,

“^(T)And let all the angels of God worship Him.”

⁷And regarding the angels He says,

“^(U)He makes His angels winds,
And His ministers a flame of fire.”

⁸But regarding the Son He says,

“^(V)Your throne, God, is forever and ever,
And the scepter of righteousness is the scepter of ^[i]His kingdom.
⁹^(W)You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness;
^(X)Therefore God, Your God, has ^(Y)anointed You
With the oil of joy above Your companions.”

¹⁰And,

“^(Z)You, Lord, in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth,
And the heavens are the works of Your hands;
¹¹^(AA)They will perish, but You remain;
^(AB)And they all will ^[j]wear out like a garment,
¹²^(AC)And like a robe You will roll them up;
Like a garment they will also be changed.
But You are ^(AD)the same,
And Your years will not come to an end.”