37:1 As
soon
as
King
Hezekiah
heard
it,
he
tore
his
clothes
and
covered
himself
with
sackcloth
and
went
into
the
house
of
the
LORD.
37:2 And
he
sent
Eliakim,
who
was
over
the
household,
and
Shebna
the
secretary,
and
the
senior
priests,
covered
with
sackcloth,
to
the
prophet
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz.
37:3 They
said
to
him,
"Thus
says
Hezekiah,
'This
day
is
a
day
of
distress,
of
rebuke,
and
of
disgrace;
children
have
come
to
the
point
of
birth,
and
there
is
no
strength
to
bring
them
forth.
37:4 It
may
be
that
the
LORD
your
God
will
hear
the
words
of
the
Rabshakeh,
whom
his
master
the
king
of
Assyria
has
sent
to
mock
the
living
God,
and
will
rebuke
the
words
that
the
LORD
your
God
has
heard;
therefore
lift
up
your
prayer
for
the
remnant
that
is
left.'"
37:5 When
the
servants
of
King
Hezekiah
came
to
Isaiah,
37:6 Isaiah
said
to
them,
"Say
to
your
master,
'Thus
says
the
LORD:
Do
not
be
afraid
because
of
the
words
that
you
have
heard,
with
which
the
young
men
of
the
king
of
Assyria
have
reviled
me.
37:7 Behold,
I
will
put
a
spirit
in
him,
so
that
he
shall
hear
a
rumor
and
return
to
his
own
land,
and
I
will
make
him
fall
by
the
sword
in
his
own
land.'"
37:8 The
Rabshakeh
returned,
and
found
the
king
of
Assyria
fighting
against
Libnah,
for
he
had
heard
that
the
king
had
left
Lachish.
37:9 Now
the
king
heard
concerning
Tirhakah
king
of
Cush,
"He
has
set
out
to
fight
against
you."
And
when
he
heard
it,
he
sent
messengers
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
37:10 "Thus
shall
you
speak
to
Hezekiah
king
of
Judah:
'Do
not
let
your
God
in
whom
you
trust
deceive
you
by
promising
that
Jerusalem
will
not
be
given
into
the
hand
of
the
king
of
Assyria.
37:11 Behold,
you
have
heard
what
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
done
to
all
lands,
devoting
them
to
destruction.
And
shall
you
be
delivered
37:12 Have
the
gods
of
the
nations
delivered
them,
the
nations
that
my
fathers
destroyed,
Gozan,
Haran,
Rezeph,
and
the
people
of
Eden
who
were
in
Telassar
37:13 Where
is
the
king
of
Hamath,
the
king
of
Arpad,
the
king
of
the
city
of
Sepharvaim,
the
king
of
Hena,
or
the
king
of
Ivvah'"
37:14 Hezekiah
received
the
letter
from
the
hand
of
the
messengers,
and
read
it;
and
Hezekiah
went
up
to
the
house
of
the
LORD,
and
spread
it
before
the
LORD.
37:15 And
Hezekiah
prayed
to
the
LORD:
37:16 "O
LORD
of
hosts,
God
of
Israel,
enthroned
above
the
cherubim,
you
are
the
God,
you
alone,
of
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth;
you
have
made
heaven
and
earth.
37:17 Incline
your
ear,
O
LORD,
and
hear;
open
your
eyes,
O
LORD,
and
see;
and
hear
all
the
words
of
Sennacherib,
which
he
has
sent
to
mock
the
living
God.
37:18 Truly,
O
LORD,
the
kings
of
Assyria
have
laid
waste
all
the
nations
and
their
lands,
37:19 and
have
cast
their
gods
into
the
fire.
For
they
were
no
gods,
but
the
work
of
men's
hands,
wood
and
stone.
Therefore
they
were
destroyed.
37:20 So
now,
O
LORD
our
God,
save
us
from
his
hand,
that
all
the
kingdoms
of
the
earth
may
know
that
you
alone
are
the
LORD."
37:21 Then
Isaiah
the
son
of
Amoz
sent
to
Hezekiah,
saying,
"Thus
says
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel:
Because
you
have
prayed
to
me
concerning
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria,
37:22 this
is
the
word
that
the
LORD
has
spoken
concerning
him:
"'She
despises
you,
she
scorns
you--
the
virgin
daughter
of
Zion;
she
wags
her
head
behind
you--
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem.
37:23 "'Whom
have
you
mocked
and
reviled
Against
whom
have
you
raised
your
voice
and
lifted
your
eyes
to
the
heights
Against
the
Holy
One
of
Israel!
37:24 By
your
servants
you
have
mocked
the
Lord,
and
you
have
said,
With
my
many
chariots
I
have
gone
up
the
heights
of
the
mountains,
to
the
far
recesses
of
Lebanon,
to
cut
down
its
tallest
cedars,
its
choicest
cypresses,
to
come
to
its
remotest
height,
its
most
fruitful
forest.
37:25 I
dug
wells
and
drank
waters,
to
dry
up
with
the
sole
of
my
foot
all
the
streams
of
Egypt.
37:26 "'Have
you
not
heard
that
I
determined
it
long
ago
I
planned
from
days
of
old
what
now
I
bring
to
pass,
that
you
should
make
fortified
cities
crash
into
heaps
of
ruins,
37:27 while
their
inhabitants,
shorn
of
strength,
are
dismayed
and
confounded,
and
have
become
like
plants
of
the
field
and
like
tender
grass,
like
grass
on
the
housetops,
blighted
before
it
is
grown.
37:28 "'I
know
your
sitting
down
and
your
going
out
and
coming
in,
and
your
raging
against
me.
37:29 Because
you
have
raged
against
me
and
your
complacency
has
come
to
my
ears,
I
will
put
my
hook
in
your
nose
and
my
bit
in
your
mouth,
and
I
will
turn
you
back
on
the
way
by
which
you
came.'
37:30 "And
this
shall
be
the
sign
for
you:
this
year
you
shall
eat
what
grows
of
itself,
and
in
the
second
year
what
springs
from
that.
Then
in
the
third
year
sow
and
reap,
and
plant
vineyards,
and
eat
their
fruit.
37:31 And
the
surviving
remnant
of
the
house
of
Judah
shall
again
take
root
downward
and
bear
fruit
upward.
37:32 For
out
of
Jerusalem
shall
go
a
remnant,
and
out
of
Mount
Zion
a
band
of
survivors.
The
zeal
of
the
LORD
of
hosts
will
do
this.
37:33 "Therefore
thus
says
the
LORD
concerning
the
king
of
Assyria:
He
shall
not
come
into
this
city
or
shoot
an
arrow
there
or
come
before
it
with
a
shield
or
cast
up
a
siege
mound
against
it.
37:34 By
the
way
that
he
came,
by
the
same
he
shall
return,
and
he
shall
not
come
into
this
city,
declares
the
LORD.
37:35 For
I
will
defend
this
city
to
save
it,
for
my
own
sake
and
for
the
sake
of
my
servant
David."
37:36 And
the
angel
of
the
LORD
went
out
and
struck
down
a
hundred
and
eighty-five
thousand
in
the
camp
of
the
Assyrians.
And
when
people
arose
early
in
the
morning,
behold,
these
were
all
dead
bodies.
37:37 Then
Sennacherib
king
of
Assyria
departed
and
returned
home
and
lived
at
Nineveh.
37:38 And
as
he
was
worshiping
in
the
house
of
Nisroch
his
god,
Adrammelech
and
Sharezer,
his
sons,
struck
him
down
with
the
sword.
And
after
they
escaped
into
the
land
of
Ararat,
Esarhaddon
his
son
reigned
in
his
place.