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2 Kings 19 📜 📕 ↷
Sennacherib's Fall Prophesied
20 And Isaie the son of Amos sent to Ezechias, saying: Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: That which thou hast besought me concerning Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians, I have heard.📜💬📚
21 This is the word that our Lord hath spoken of him: The virgin daughter of Sion hath despised thee, & scorned thee: Behind thy back hath the daughter of Jerusalem wagged her head.📜💬📚
22 Whom hast thou upbraided, & whom hast thou blasphemed? Against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes in high? Against the holy one of Israel.📜💬📚
23 By the hand of thy servants thou hast upbraided our Lord, and hast said: In the multitude of my chariots have I climbed the height of mountains, in the top of Libanus, and have cut down high cedars thereof, and the chosen fir-trees of it. And I have entered into the borders thereof, & the forest of the Carmel thereof📜💬📚
24 have I cut down. And I have drunk strange waters, and have dried up with the steps of my feet all the waters inclosed.📜💬📚
25 Why, hast thou not heard what I have done from the beginning? From ancient days I have made that thing, and now I have brought it to effect: and fenced cities shall be into ruin of little hills bickering together.📜💬📚
26 And they that sit in them, weak of hand, they have trembled & are confounded, they became as the grass of the field, and the green herb of the roofs of houses, which withered before it came to ripeness.📜💬📚
27 Thy habitation, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy way I have known before, and thy fury against me.📜💬📚
28 Thou hast been mad against me, and thy pride hath ascended into mine ears: I therefore will put a ring in thy nostrils, and a bit in thy lips, and will bring thee back into the way, by the which thou camest.📜💬📚
29 And to thee Ezechias this shall be a sign: Eat this year what thou shalt find: and in the second year, the things that grow of themselves: moreover in the third year sow ye and reap: plant ye vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.📜💬📚
30 And whatsoever shall be left of the house of Juda, shall take root downward, and bear fruit upward.📜💬📚
31 For out of Jerusalem there shall remnants go forth, and that which is to be saved from the mount of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.📜💬📚
32 Wherefore thus saith our Lord, of the king of the Assyrians: He shall not enter into this city, nor shoot arrow into it, neither shall shield occupy it, nor munition compass it.📜💬📚
33 By the way, that he came, he shall return: and into this city he shall not enter, saith our Lord.📜💬📚
34 And I will protect this city, and will save it for my self, and for David my servant.📜💬📚
Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians
35 It came to pass therefore in that night, an Angel of our Lord came, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred eighty five thousand. And when he was risen early, he saw all the bodies of the dead,📜💬📚
36 and Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians departing went away, and tarried in Ninive.📜💬📚
37 And when he adored in the temple of Nesroch his god, Adramelech and Sarasar his sons struck him with the sword, and they fled into the land of the Armenians, and Asarhaddon his son reigned for him.📜💬📚
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