Christian Community Bible
2 Kings
19
1 When King Hezekiah heard this he tore his clothes, covered him self with sackcloth and went to the house of Yahweh. 2 He sent Eliakim, the overseer of the palace, Shebna, the secretary, and the elders among the priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.
3 And they said to Isaiah, This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke and disgrace, as when children are at the point of birth and there is no strength to deliver them. 4 Would that your God might hear the words of the field commander, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent. May Yahweh your God rebuke him for the words he said, insulting the living God. Therefore offer a prayer for the few of us that are left.
5 When King Hezekiahs officials came to Isaiah, 6 he said to them: Tell your master this word of Yah weh: Do not fear because of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have insulted me. 7 Listen! I will let him be frightened. Then he will return to his country, and there I will have him slain by the sword.
8 The field commander returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish. 9 This was because King Sennacherib had heard that Tirhakah, the Cushite king of Egypt, was going out to fight him.
Sennacheribs letter to Hezekiah
9 Again Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah with these words, 10 Say to Heze kiah, king of Judah that his God in whom he trusts may be deceiving him in saying that Jerusalem will not be given into the hands of the king of Assyria. 11 Surely you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all the lands they have destroyed! And will you be spared? 12 Have their gods saved the nations that my fathers destroyed? Gozan and Haran, Rezeph and the sons of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, the kings of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena and Ivvah?
14 Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers, and when he had read it he went to the house of Yahweh where he unrolled the letter 15 and prayed saying, O Yahweh, God of hosts and God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim! You alone are God over all the king doms of the earth
Isaiah intervenes
20 Then Isaiah, son of Amoz, sent word to Hezekiah: You have called upon Yah weh and he has heard your prayer re gard ing Sennacherib, king of Assyria. 21 This is what Yahweh has spoken against him:
21 The Virgin Daughter of Zion
21 despises and scorns you
21 the Daughter of Jerusalem
21 shakes her head behind you.
22 Whom have you insulted and blasphemed?
22 Against whom have you raised your voice
22 and lifted up your eyes in arrogance?
22 Against the Holy One of Israel!
23 Through your servants
23 you have insulted Yahweh.
23 For you have said:
23 With the enormous number of my chariots,
23 I have ascended the heights of the mountains,
23 the topmost recesses of Lebanon.
23 I have cut down its tallest cedars
23 and its choicest fir trees.
23 I have climbed its remotest heights to the densest of its forests.
24 I have dug wells and drunk waters
24 I have dried up with the soles of my feet all the streams of Egypt.
25 Have you not heard
25 how I decreed it long ago,
25 how I planned from days of old
25 what now I have brought to pass?
25 Your ordained role was
25 to lay waste fortified cities,
25 to turn them into ruinous heaps.
26 Shorn of power, their inhabitants
26 have been dismayed and confounded
26 they have been as the grass
26 and green plants in the field, as the grass on the housetops,
26 scorched before it has grown.
27 I know whenever you rise or sit, whenever you go out or come in
28 Because of your rage against me
28 and your arrogance that I have heard of,
28 I will put my hook in your nose
28 and my bridle in your mouth,
28 and I will turn you back
28 on the way by which you came.
29 This will be a sign for you, O Heze kiah: This year you will eat the after-growth grain, and next year what grows from that, but in the third year, sow and reap, plant vines and eat the fruit.
30 A remnant of the house of Judah shall take root below and produce fruit above. 31 For a remnant will come from Jerusalem and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will accomplish this. 32 That is why Yahweh has said this concerning the king of Assy ria: He shall not enter this city nor shoot his arrows. He shall not raise a shield to oppose it nor build a siege ramp against it. 33 He shall leave by the way he came and he shall not enter the city, word of Yahweh. 34 I will protect this city and so save it for my own sake and for the sake of David, my servant. 35 It happened that the angel of Yahweh went out that night and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people rose early next morning there were all the corpses.
36 So Sennacherib, king of Assy ria, departed, returned home and lived in Nineveh. 37 While he was worshiping in the temple of his god, Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer slew him with the sword and then escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon, his son, succeeded him as king.
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