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CHAP. XIX.
1 Hezekiah mourning, sendeth to Esay to pray for them. 6 Esay comforteth them. 8 Sennacherib going to encounter Tirhakah, sendeth a blasphemous letter to Hezekiah. 14 Hezekiah his prayer. 20 Esay his prophecie of the pride and destruction of Sennacherib, and the good of Zion. 35 An Angel slayeth the Assyrians. 36 Sennacherib is slaine at Nineueh by his owne sonnes.
1 And it came to passe when King Hezekiah heard it, that hee rent his clothes, and couered himselfe with sackecloth, and went into the house of the Lord.1
3 And they sayd vnto him, Thus sayth Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemie: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring foorth.3
4 It may be, the Lord thy God will heare all the words of Rabshakeh whome the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproch the liuing God, and will reprooue the wordes which the Lord thy God hath heard: wherefore lift vp thy prayer for the remnant that are left.4
5 So the seruants of king Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 ¶ And Isaiah said vnto them, Thus shal ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the wordes which thou hast heard, with which the seruants of the king of Assyria haue blasphemed me.6
17 Of a trueth, Lord, the kings of Assyria haue destroyed the nations and their lands,
18 And haue cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of mens hands, wood and stone: therfore they haue destroyed them.18
23 By thy messengers thou hast reproched the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my charets, I am come vp to the height of the mountaines, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut downe the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice firre trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forrest of his Carmel.23
24 I haue digged & drunke strange waters, and with the sole of my feete haue I dried vp all the riuers of besieged places.24
25 Hast thou not heard long agoe, how I haue done it, and of ancient times that I haue formed it? now haue I brought it to passe, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heapes.25
26 Therefore their Inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded, they were as the grasse of the field, and as the greene herbe, as the grasse on the house tops, and as corne blasted before it be growen vp.26
27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.27
30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Iudah, shall yet againe take root downeward, and beare fruit vpward.30
31 For out of Ierusalem shall goe forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeale of the Lord of hostes shall doe this.31
34 For I will defend this citie, to saue it, for mine owne sake, and for my seruant Dauids sake.
35 ¶ And it came to passe that night, that the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the campe of the Assyrians, an hundred foure score and fiue thousand: and when they arose earely in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.35
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.
37 And it came to passe as hee was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adramelech, and Sharezer his sonnes, smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia, and Esarhaddon his sonne reigned in his stead.37
2 Kings Chapter 19 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible):
1 Esai 37.1.
3 Or, prouocation.
4 Heb. found.
6 Luke 3.4. called Esaias.
18 Heb. giuen
23 Heb. by the hand of. , Heb. the talnesse, &c. , Or, the forrest and his fruitful field
24 Or, fenced
25 Or, hast thou not heard how I haue made it long agoe, and formed it of ancient times? should I now bring it to be laide waste, and fenced cities to be ruinous heapes?
26 Heb. short of hand.
27 Or, sitting.
30 Hebr. the escaping of the house of Iudah that remaineth.
31 Hebr. the escaping.
35 Isa. 37.36. tob. 1.21. ecclus. 48.24. 1 macc. 7.41. 2. macca. 8.19.
37 Hebr. Ararat.
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