2 Kings 19 - New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)

Isaiah Encourages Hezekiah

19 (A)And when King Hezekiah heard it, he (B)tore his clothes, (C)covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the Lord. 2 Then he sent Eliakim who was over 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. 3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, ‘This day is a day of distress, rebuke, and rejection; for children have come to birth and there is no strength to deliver. 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 reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for (H)the remnant that is left.’” 5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. 6 Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Do not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the (I)servants of the king of Assyria (J)have blasphemed Me. 7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that (K)he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And (L)I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Sennacherib Defies God

8 Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against (M)Libnah, for he had heard that [a]the king had left (N)Lachish. 9 When he heard them say concerning Tirhakah king of [b]Cush, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah saying, 10 “Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of [c]Judah, ‘Do not (O)let your God in whom you trust deceive you saying, “(P)Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be [d]spared? 12 (Q)Did the gods of [e]those nations which my fathers destroyed deliver them, even (R)Gozan and (S)Haran and 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

14 Then (V)Hezekiah took the [f]letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the Lord and [g]spread it out before the Lord. 15 Hezekiah prayed before the Lord and said, “O Lord, the God of Israel, (W)who are [h]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, O Lord, and hear; (Z)open Your eyes, O Lord, and see; and listen to the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent (AA)to reproach the living God. 17 Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands 18 and have cast their gods into the fire, (AB)for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them. 19 Now, O Lord our God, I pray, deliver us from his hand (AC)that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O (AD)Lord, are God.”

God’s Answer through Isaiah

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

‘She has despised you and mocked you,
(AF)The virgin daughter of Zion;
She (AG)has shaken her head behind you,
The daughter of Jerusalem!
22 ‘Whom have you (AH)reproached and (AI)blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice,
And [i]haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the (AJ)Holy One of Israel!
23 ‘(AK)Through your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And you have said, “With my many chariots
I came up to the heights of the mountains,
To the remotest parts of Lebanon;
And I [j]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.
And I [k]entered its farthest lodging place, its (AL)thickest forest.
24 “I dug wells and drank foreign waters,
And with the sole of my feet I [l](AM)dried up
All the rivers of [m]Egypt.”

25 ‘(AN)Have you not heard?
Long ago I did it;
From ancient times I planned it.
(AO)Now I have brought it to pass,
That you should turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 ‘Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength,
They were dismayed and put to shame;
They were (AP)as the vegetation of the field and as the green herb,
As grass on the housetops is scorched before it is grown up.
27 ‘But (AQ)I know your sitting down,
And your going out and your coming in,
And your raging against Me.
28 ‘Because of your raging against Me,
And because your [n]arrogance has come up to My ears,
Therefore 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 which you came.

29 ‘Then this shall be (AT)the sign for you: [o]you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit. 30 (AU)The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. 31 For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and (AV)out of Mount Zion [p]survivors. (AW)The zeal of [q]the Lord will perform this.

32 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, “(AX)He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it. 33 (AY)By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,”’ declares the Lord. 34 ‘(AZ)For I will defend 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 [r]men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were [s]dead. 36 So (BC)Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at (BD)Nineveh. 37 It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that [t](BE)Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into (BF)the land of Ararat. And (BG)Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:8 Lit he
  2. 2 Kings 19:9 Or Ethiopia
  3. 2 Kings 19:10 Lit Judah, saying,
  4. 2 Kings 19:11 Lit delivered
  5. 2 Kings 19:12 Lit the
  6. 2 Kings 19:14 Lit letters...read them
  7. 2 Kings 19:14 Lit Hezekiah spread
  8. 2 Kings 19:15 Lit seated
  9. 2 Kings 19:22 Lit on high
  10. 2 Kings 19:23 So with some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
  11. 2 Kings 19:23 So with some ancient versions; M.T. will cut...will enter
  12. 2 Kings 19:24 So with some ancient versions; M.T. will dry up
  13. 2 Kings 19:24 Lit the besieged place
  14. 2 Kings 19:28 Lit complacency
  15. 2 Kings 19:29 Lit eating
  16. 2 Kings 19:31 Lit those who escape
  17. 2 Kings 19:31 Some ancient mss read the Lord of hosts
  18. 2 Kings 19:35 Lit they
  19. 2 Kings 19:35 Lit dead bodies
  20. 2 Kings 19:37 Some ancient mss read Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him

Cross references

  1. 2 Kings 19:1 : 2 Chr 32:20-22; Is 37:1
  2. 2 Kings 19:1 : 2 Kin 18:37
  3. 2 Kings 19:1 : 1 Kin 21:27
  4. 2 Kings 19:2 : 2 Sam 3:31
  5. 2 Kings 19:2 : Is 1:1; 2:1
  6. 2 Kings 19:4 : Josh 14:12; 2 Sam 16:12
  7. 2 Kings 19:4 : 2 Kin 18:35
  8. 2 Kings 19:4 : Is 1:9
  9. 2 Kings 19:6 : 2 Kin 18:17
  10. 2 Kings 19:6 : 2 Kin 18:22-25, 30, 35
  11. 2 Kings 19:7 : 2 Kin 7:6
  12. 2 Kings 19:7 : 2 Kin 19:37
  13. 2 Kings 19:8 : Josh 10:29
  14. 2 Kings 19:8 : 2 Kin 18:14
  15. 2 Kings 19:10 : 2 Kin 18:5
  16. 2 Kings 19:10 : 2 Kin 18:30
  17. 2 Kings 19:12 : 2 Kin 18:33
  18. 2 Kings 19:12 : 2 Kin 17:6
  19. 2 Kings 19:12 : Gen 11:31
  20. 2 Kings 19:12 : Is 37:12
  21. 2 Kings 19:13 : 2 Kin 18:34
  22. 2 Kings 19:14 : Is 37:14
  23. 2 Kings 19:15 : Ex 25:22; Is 37:14
  24. 2 Kings 19:15 : 2 Kin 5:15
  25. 2 Kings 19:16 : Ps 31:2; Is 37:17
  26. 2 Kings 19:16 : 1 Kin 8:29; 2 Chr 6:40
  27. 2 Kings 19:16 : 2 Kin 19:4
  28. 2 Kings 19:18 : Is 44:9-20; Acts 17:29
  29. 2 Kings 19:19 : 1 Kin 8:42, 43
  30. 2 Kings 19:19 : 2 Kin 19:15
  31. 2 Kings 19:20 : 2 Kin 20:5
  32. 2 Kings 19:21 : Jer 14:17; Lam 2:13
  33. 2 Kings 19:21 : Ps 109:25; Matt 27:39
  34. 2 Kings 19:22 : 2 Kin 19:4
  35. 2 Kings 19:22 : 2 Kin 19:6
  36. 2 Kings 19:22 : Is 5:24; 30:11-15
  37. 2 Kings 19:23 : 2 Kin 18:17
  38. 2 Kings 19:23 : 2 Chr 26:10; Is 10:18
  39. 2 Kings 19:24 : Is 19:6
  40. 2 Kings 19:25 : Is 45:7
  41. 2 Kings 19:25 : Is 10:5
  42. 2 Kings 19:26 : Ps 129:6
  43. 2 Kings 19:27 : Ps 139:1
  44. 2 Kings 19:28 : Ezek 19:9; 29:4
  45. 2 Kings 19:28 : 2 Kin 19:33, 36
  46. 2 Kings 19:29 : Ex 3:12; 2 Kin 20:8, 9
  47. 2 Kings 19:30 : 2 Kin 19:4; 2 Chr 32:22, 23
  48. 2 Kings 19:31 : Is 10:20
  49. 2 Kings 19:31 : Is 9:7
  50. 2 Kings 19:32 : Is 8:7-10
  51. 2 Kings 19:33 : 2 Kin 19:28
  52. 2 Kings 19:34 : 2 Kin 20:6; Is 31:5
  53. 2 Kings 19:34 : 1 Kin 11:12, 13
  54. 2 Kings 19:35 : 2 Sam 24:16; 2 Chr 32:21
  55. 2 Kings 19:36 : 2 Kin 19:7, 28, 33
  56. 2 Kings 19:36 : Jon 1:2
  57. 2 Kings 19:37 : 2 Kin 19:17, 31
  58. 2 Kings 19:37 : Gen 8:4; Jer 51:27
  59. 2 Kings 19:37 : Ezra 4:2

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