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Isaiah 37

Hezekiah Seeks Isaiah's Help

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And  awhen King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth and entered the house of the LORD.

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Then he sent  aEliakim who was over the household with  bShebna the scribe and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to  cIsaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

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They said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah, `This day is a  aday of distress, rebuke and rejection; for  bchildren have come to birth, and there is no strength to  1deliver.

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`Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to  areproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore, offer a prayer for  bthe remnant that is left.' "

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So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

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Isaiah said to them, "Thus you shall say to your master, `Thus says the LORD, " aDo not be afraid because of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

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"Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will  ahear a rumor and  breturn to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.""'

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Then Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against  aLibnah, for he had heard that  1the king had left  bLachish.

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When he  aheard them say concerning Tirhakah king of  1 bCush, "He has come out to fight against you," and when he heard it he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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"Thus you shall say to Hezekiah king of  1Judah, ` aDo not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, "Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria."

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aBehold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands, destroying them completely. So will you be  1spared?

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`Did the gods of  1those nations which my fathers have destroyed deliver them, even  aGozan and  bHaran and Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?

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`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 in the Temple

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Then Hezekiah took the  1letter from the hand of the messengers and read it, and he went up to the house of the LORD and  2spread it out before the LORD.

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Hezekiah prayed to the LORD saying,

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"O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel,  awho is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the  bGod, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth.  cYou have made heaven and earth.

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aIncline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see; and  blisten to all the words of Sennacherib, who sent them to  creproach the living God.

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"Truly, O LORD, the  akings of Assyria have devastated all the countries and their lands,

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and have cast their gods into the fire, for they were not gods but the  awork of men's hands, wood and stone. So they have  bdestroyed them.

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"Now, O LORD our God,  adeliver us from his hand that  ball the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, LORD,  1are God."

God Answers through Isaiah

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Then  aIsaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, `Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

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this is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: "She has despised you and mocked you, The  avirgin  bdaughter of Zion; She has  cshaken her head behind you, The daughter of Jerusalem!

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"Whom have you  areproached and blasphemed? And against whom have you raised your voice And  1haughtily  blifted up your eyes? Against the  cHoly One of Israel!

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"Through your servants 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  aLebanon; And I cut down its tall  bcedars and its choice cypresses. And I will go to its  1highest peak, its thickest  cforest.

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`I dug wells and drank waters, And  awith the sole of my feet I dried up All the rivers of  1Egypt.'

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aHave you not heard? Long ago I did it, From ancient times I  bplanned it. Now  cI have brought it to pass, That  dyou should turn fortified cities into  eruinous heaps.

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"Therefore their inhabitants were short of strength, They were dismayed and put to shame; They were as the  avegetation of the field and as the green herb, As  bgrass on the housetops  1is scorched before it is grown up.

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"But I  aknow your sitting down And your going out and your coming in And your raging against Me.

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"Because of your raging against Me And because your  1 aarrogance has come up to My ears, Therefore I will put My  bhook in your nose And My  cbridle in your lips, And I will turn you back  dby the way which you came.

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"Then this shall be the sign for you:  1you will eat this year what  agrows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

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"The  asurviving  bremnant of the house of Judah will again  ctake root downward and bear fruit upward.

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"For out of Jerusalem will go forth a  aremnant and out of Mount Zion  1survivors. The  bzeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this."'

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"Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, `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  asiege ramp against it.

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aBy the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he will not come to this city,' declares the LORD.

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`For I will  adefend this city to save it  bfor My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' "

Assyrians Destroyed

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Then the  aangel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when  1men arose early in the morning, behold, all of these were  2dead.

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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and  1returned home and lived at  aNineveh.

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It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of  aArarat. And  bEsarhaddon his son became king in his place.



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