Isaiah Predicts Judah’s Deliverance, Excerpts from Isaiah Chapter 37

“Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: ‘This what the Lord, the God of Israel says: Because you prayed about King Sennacherib of Assyria, the Lord has spoken this word against him: The virgin daughter of Zion despises you and laughs at you. The daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head in derision as you flee.'” (vv. 21-22, NLT)

“And this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: ‘His armies will not enter Jerusalem. They will not even shoot an arrow at it. They will not march outside with gates with their shields nor build banks of earth against its walls.'” (v. 33)

“That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere. Then Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.

One day while he was worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Aratat, and another son Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.” (vv. 36-38, NLT)

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