2 Kings 19:1-13
1599 Geneva Bible
19 6 God promiseth by Isaiah victory to Hezekiah. 35 The Angel of the Lord killeth an hundred and fourscore and five thousand men of the Assyrians. 37 Sennacherib is killed of his own sons.
1 And (A)when King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes and put on sackcloth, and came into the house of the Lord,
2 And sent Eliakim which was the steward of the house, and Shebna the chancellor, and the Elders of the Priests clothed in sackcloth [a]to Isaiah, the Prophet the son of Amoz.
3 And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of tribulation and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to [b]the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.
4 If so be the Lord thy God hath heard all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to rail on the living God, and to reproach him with words which the Lord thy God hath heard, then lift thou up thy prayer for the [c]remnant that are left.
5 ¶ So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 And Isaiah said unto them, So shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Behold, I will send a blast [d]upon him, and he shall hear a noise, and return to his own land: and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
8 ¶ So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.
9 [e]He heard also men say of Tirhakah king of [f]Ethiopia, [g]Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he therefore departed and sent other messengers unto Hezekiah, saying,
10 Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, and say, Let not thy [h]God deceive thee in whom thou trustest, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, how they have destroyed them: and shalt thou be delivered?
12 Have the gods of the heathen delivered them which my fathers have destroyed? as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden, which were in Telassar?
13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Shepharvaim, Hena and Ivah?
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- 2 Kings 19:2 To hear some new prophecy, and to have comfort of him.
- 2 Kings 19:3 The dangers are so great, that we can neither avenge this blasphemy, nor help ourselves no more than a woman in her travail.
- 2 Kings 19:4 Meaning, for Jerusalem which only remained of all the cities of Judah.
- 2 Kings 19:7 The Lord can with one blast blow away all the strength of man, and turn it into dust.
- 2 Kings 19:9 That is, Sennacherib.
- 2 Kings 19:9 Or, black Moors.
- 2 Kings 19:9 For the Kings of Ethiopia and Egypt joined together against the King of Assyria because of his oppression of other countries.
- 2 Kings 19:10 The more near that the wicked are to their destruction, the more they blaspheme.
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