2 Kings 19:5-20, 32-37

When the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah, Isaiah said to them, “Thus shall you say to your master, ‘Thus says the LORD: Do not be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. I am putting a spirit in him, and he will hear a report and return to his own land. Then I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.’ ” LORD Then the Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish. When the king heard concerning Tirhakah king of Cush, “He has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying: Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying: Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria. You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by annihilating them. Will you be delivered? Have the gods of the nations delivered them, the nations that my fathers destroyed, Gozan, Harran, Rezeph, and the sons of Eden who were in Tel Assar? Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?” Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the house of the LORD and spread it before the LORD. Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD and said, “O LORD, God of Israel, who sits on the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the sky and the earth. Incline, O LORD, Your ear and hear. Open, O LORD, Your eyes and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he sent to taunt the living God. “Surely, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have annihilated the nations and their lands and have put their gods in the fire, for they were no gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; thus they have been destroyed. So now, O LORD our God, save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You, O LORD, are God alone.” Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel: That which you have prayed to Me concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

“Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city, shoot an arrow there, approach it with shield, or heap up a siege ramp against it. By the way that he came, he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD. For I will protect this city to save it, for My own sake and for the sake of David My servant.” On that night the angel of the LORD went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, these were all dead bodies. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and stayed in Nineveh. As he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok his god, Adrammelek and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.