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2 Kings 19       ISR  HRB  NKJV  KJV  NIV   (Show plain text in new window)
	Jerusalem`s Deliverance Foretold...
1.	And it came to be, when Sovereign Hizqiyahu heard it, that he tore his garments, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the House of YHWH,
2.	and sent Elyaqim, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covering themselves with sackcloth, to Yeshayahu the prophet, son of Amots.
3.	And they said to him, 'Thus said Hizqiyahu, 'This day is a day of distress and rebuke and scorn, for the children have come to birth but there is no power to bring forth.
4.	'It could be that YHWH your Elohim does hear all the words of the Rabshaqeh, whom his master the sovereign of Ashshur has sent to reproach the living Elohim, and shall rebuke the words which YHWH your Elohim has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.''
5.	And the servants of Sovereign Hizqiyahu came to Yeshayahu,
6.	and Yeshayahu said to them, 'Say this to your master, 'Thus said YHWH, 'Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the sovereign of Ashshur have reviled Me.
7.	'See, I am putting a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a report and return to his own land. And I shall cause him to fall by the sword in his land.'''
8.	And the Rabshaqeh returned and found the sovereign of Ashshur fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that he had left Lakish.
9.	And when the sovereign heard concerning Tirhaqah sovereign of Kush, 'See, he has come out to fight against you,' he again sent messengers to Hizqiyahu, saying,
10.	'Speak to Hizqiyahu sovereign of Yehudah, saying, 'Do not let your Elohim in whom you trust deceive you, saying, 'Yerushalayim is not given into the hand of the sovereign of Ashshur.'
11.	'See, you have heard what the sovereigns of Ashshur have done to all lands by putting them under the ban. And are you going to be delivered?
12.	'Have the mighty ones of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed: Gozan and Haran and Retseph, and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar?
13.	'Where is the sovereign of Hamath, and the sovereign of Arpad, and the sovereign of the city of Sepharwayim, Hena, and Iwwah?''
	Hezekiah`s Prayer...
14.	And Hizqiyahu received the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read them, and went up to the House of YHWH. And Hizqiyahu spread it before YHWH.
15.	And Hizqiyahu prayed before YHWH, and said, 'O YHWH Elohim of Yisra'el, the One who dwells between the kerubim, You are Elohim, You alone, of all the reigns of the earth. You have made the heavens and earth.
16.	'Incline Your ear, O YHWH, and hear. Open Your eyes, O YHWH, and see. And hear the words of Sanherib, which he has sent to reproach the living Elohim.
17.	'Truly, YHWH, the sovereigns of Ashshur have laid waste the nations and their lands,
18.	and have put their mighty ones into the fire, for they were not mighty ones, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, and destroyed them.
19.	'And now, O YHWH our Elohim, I pray, save us from his hand, so that all the reigns of the earth know that You are YHWH Elohim, You alone.'
	Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib`s Fall...
20.	Then Yeshayahu son of Amots sent to Hizqiyahu, saying, `Thus said YHWH Elohim of Yisra`el, `I have heard that which you have prayed to Me against Sanherib sovereign of Ashshur.`
21.	'This is the word which YHWH has spoken concerning him, 'The maiden, the daughter of Tsiyon, has despised you, mocked you; the daughter of Yerushalayim has shaken her head behind you!
22.	'Whom have you reproached and reviled? Against whom have you raised a voice, and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Set-apart One of Yisra'el!
23.	'By the hand of your messengers you have reproached YHWH, and said, 'With my many chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon. And I cut down its tall cedars, its choice cypress trees. And I enter its remotest parts, its thickest forest.
24.	'I have dug and drunk strange water, and with the soles of my feet I dry up all the streams of defence.'
25.	'Have you not heard long ago, I made it; from days of old I formed it? Now I have brought it to be, that you should make walled cities ruinous heaps.
26.	'And their inhabitants were powerless, they were overthrown and put to shame, they were as the grass of the field and the green plants, as the grass on the house-tops and withered before it came up.
27.	'But I know your sitting down, and your going out and your coming in, and your rage against Me.
28.	'Because your rage against Me and your pride have come up to My ears, I shall put My hook in your nose and My bridle in your lips, and I shall turn you back by the way which you came.
29.	'And this is the sign for you: This year you eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that, and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30.	'And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Yehudah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31.	'For out of Yerushalayim comes forth a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Tsiyon - the ardour of YHWH does this.'
32.	'Therefore thus said YHWH concerning the sovereign of Ashshur, 'He does not come into this city, nor does he shoot an arrow there, nor does he come before it with shield, nor does he build a siege mound against it.
33.	'By the way that he came, by the same he turns back. And he does not come into this city,' declares YHWH.
34.	'And I shall defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for the sake of Dawid My servant.''
35.	And it came to be in that night that the messenger of YHWH went out, and smote in the camp of Ashshur one hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they rose up early in the morning and saw all of them dead bodies.
36.	And Sanherib sovereign of Ashshur broke camp and went away, and turned back, and remained in Nineweh.
37.	And it came to be, as he was bowing himself in the house of Nisrok his mighty one, that his sons Adrammelek and Shar'etser smote him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And his son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.

2 Kings 19