| 1 | It happened, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he tore his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of Yahweh. | Isa 37:1-7 |
| 2 | He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz. | 2Ki 18:18 2Ki 22:13 2Ki 22:14 Isa 37:2-5 |
| 3 | They said to him, Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth. | 2Ki 18:29 Ps 39:11 Ps 123:3 Ps 123:4 Jer 30:5-7 Hos 5:15 Hos 6:1 |
| 4 | It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard: why lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left. | Gn 22:14 Dt 32:36 Jsh 14:12 1Sa 14:6 2Sa 16:12 |
| 5 | So the servants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah. |
| 6 | Isaiah said to them, Thus shall you tell your master, Thus says Yahweh, Don`t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me. | Isa 37:6 Isa 37:7-38 |
| 7 | Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear news, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land. | 2Ki 19:35-37 Jb 4:9 Ps 11:6 Ps 18:14 Ps 18:15 Ps 50:3 Isa 10:16-18 Isa 11:4 Jer 51:1 |
| 8 | So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish. | 2Ki 8:22 Jsh 10:29 Jsh 12:15 Jsh 15:42 |
| 9 | When he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying, | 1Sa 23:27 Isa 37:9 |
| 10 | Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Don`t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. | 2Ki 18:5 2Ki 18:29 2Ki 18:30 2Ch 32:15-19 Isa 37:10-14 |
| 11 | Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shall you be delivered? | 2Ki 19:17 2Ki 19:18 2Ki 17:5-11 2Ch 32:13 2Ch 32:14 Isa 10:8-11 |
| 12 | Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar? | 2Ki 18:33 2Ki 18:34 |
| 13 | Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? | 2Ki 17:24 Nm 13:21 Nm 34:8 Isa 11:11 Jer 39:5 Jer 49:23 Zc 9:2 |
| 14 | Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up to the house of Yahweh, and spread it before Yahweh. | Isa 37:14 |
| 15 | Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sit [above] the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; you have made heaven and earth. | 2Sa 7:18-28 2Ch 14:11 2Ch 20:6 2Ch 32:20 Dn 9:3 Dn 9:4 |
| 16 | Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear; open your eyes, Yahweh, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, with which he has sent him to defy the living God. | Ps 31:2 Isa 37:17 |
| 17 | Of a truth, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, | Jb 9:2 Isa 5:9 Jer 26:15 Dn 2:47 Mt 14:33 Lk 22:59 Ac 4:27 1Co 14:25 |
| 18 | and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men`s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them. | 2Sa 5:21 Isa 46:1 Isa 46:2 |
| 19 | Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save you us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you Yahweh are God alone. | Ex 9:15 Ex 9:16 Jsh 7:9 1Sa 17:45-47 1Ki 8:43 1Ki 18:36 1Ki 18:37 1Ki 20:28 Ps 67:1 Ps 67:2 Ps 83:18 Dn 4:34-37 |
| 20 | Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Whereas you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard [you]. | 2Sa 15:31 2Sa 17:23 |
| 21 | This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and laughed you to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you. | Isa 23:12 Isa 37:21 Isa 37:22-35 Isa 47:1 Jer 14:17 Jer 18:13 Jer 31:4 Lam 1:15 Lam 2:13 Am 5:2 |
| 22 | Whom have you defied and blasphemed? and against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel. | 2Ki 18:28-35 Ex 5:2 Ps 73:9 Ps 74:22 Ps 74:23 |
| 23 | By your messengers you have defied the Lord, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars of it, and the choice fir-trees of it; and I will enter into his farthest lodging-place, the forest of his fruitful field. | 2Ki 18:17 2Ch 32:17 |
| 24 | I have dug and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet will I dry up all the rivers of Egypt. | Ex 15:9 2Sa 17:13 1Ki 20:10 Dn 4:30 |
| 25 | Haven`t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps. | Ps 33:11 Ps 76:10 Isa 10:5 Isa 10:6 Isa 10:15 Isa 37:26 Isa 37:27 Isa 45:7 Isa 46:10 Isa 46:11 Isa 54:16 Ac 4:27 Ac 4:28 |
| 26 | Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up. | Nm 11:23 Nm 14:9 Ps 48:4-7 Ps 127:1 Jer 37:10 Jer 50:36 Jer 50:37 Jer 51:30 Jer 51:32 |
| 27 | But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your raging against me. | Ps 139:1-11 Jer 23:23 Jer 23:24 |
| 28 | Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came. | Ps 2:1-5 Ps 7:6 Ps 10:13 Ps 10:14 Ps 46:6 Ps 93:3 Ps 93:4 Lk 6:11 Jn 15:18 Jn 15:23 Jn 15:24 Ac 7:51 |
| 29 | This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of it. | 2Ki 19:21 2Ki 19:31-34 2Ki 20:8 2Ki 20:9 Ex 3:12 1Sa 2:34 Isa 7:11-14 Lk 2:12 |
| 30 | The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. | 2Ki 19:4 2Ch 32:22 2Ch 32:23 Isa 1:9 Isa 10:20-22 |
| 31 | For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape: the zeal of Yahweh shall perform this. | 2Ki 19:4 Jer 44:14 Ro 9:27 Ro 11:5 |
| 32 | Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there, neither shall he come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it. | Isa 8:7-10 Isa 10:24 Isa 10:25 Isa 10:28-32 Isa 37:33-35 |
| 33 | By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh. | 2Ki 19:28 2Ki 19:36 |
| 34 | For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake, and for my servant David`s sake. | 2Ki 20:6 Ps 46:5 Ps 46:6 Ps 48:2-8 Isa 31:5 Isa 38:6 |
| 35 | It happened that night, that the angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred eighty-five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies. | Ex 12:29 Dn 5:30 1Th 5:2 1Th 5:3 |
| 36 | So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh. | 2Ki 19:7 2Ki 19:28 2Ki 19:33 |
| 37 | It happened, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar-haddon his son reigned in his place. | 2Ki 19:10 2Ki 18:5 2Ki 18:30 Dt 32:31 2Ch 32:14 2Ch 32:19 Isa 37:37 Isa 37:38 |
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