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Chapter 37.

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And it came to pass, when King Hezekiah
heard it, that he rent his clothes,

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and covered himself with sackcloth,
and went into the house of the Lord.

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And he sent Eliakim, who was over the
household, and Shebna the scribe,

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and the elders of the priests,
covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the

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prophet, the son of Amoz.

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And they said unto him, Thus saith
Hezekiah, this day is a day of trouble,

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and of rebuke, and of blasphemy.

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For the children are come to the birth,
and there is not strength to bring forth.

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It may be the Lord thy God will hear the
words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of

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Assyria, his master, hath sent to reproach
the living God, and will reprove the words

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which the Lord thy God hath heard.

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Wherefore, lift up thy prayer for the
remnant that is left.

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So the servants of King Hezekiah came to
Isaiah.

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And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye
say unto your master, thus saith the Lord.

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Be not afraid of the words that thou hast
heard, wherewith the servants of the king

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of Assyria have blasphemed me.

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Behold, I will send a blast upon him,
and he shall hear a rumour, and return to

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his own land, and I will cause him to fall
by the sword in his own land.

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So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king
of Assyria warring against Libna.

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For he had heard that he was departed from
Lachish, and he heard say concerning

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Terheka king of Ethiopia, He is come forth
to make war with thee.

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And when he heard it, he sent messengers
to Hezekiah, saying, Thus shall ye speak

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to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying,
Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest,

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deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not
be given into the hand of the king of

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Assyria.

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Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of
Assyria have done to all lands by

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destroying them utterly, and shalt thou be
delivered?

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Have the gods of the nations delivered
them which my fathers have destroyed,

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as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezif,
and the children of Eden, which were in

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Telassar?

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Where is the king of Hamath, and the king
of Arfat, and the king of the city of

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Sepharvaim, Hena, and Iva?

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And Hezekiah received the letter from the
hand of the messengers, and read it.

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And Hezekiah went up unto the house of the
Lord, and spread it before the Lord.

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And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord,
saying, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel,

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that dwellest between the cherubims,
thou art the God, even thou alone,

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of all the kingdoms of the earth.

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Thou hast made heaven and earth.

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Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear.

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Open thine eyes, O Lord, and see,
and hear all the words of Sennacherib,

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which hath sent to reproach the living
God.

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Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria
have laid waste all the nations and their

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countries, and have cast their gods into
the fire.

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For they were no gods, but the work of
man's hands, wood and stone.

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Therefore they have destroyed them.

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Now therefore, O Lord our God,
save us from his hand, that all the

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kingdoms of the earth may know that thou
art the Lord, even thou only.

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Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent unto
Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the Lord God

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of Israel, Whereas thou hast prayed to me
against Sennacherib, king of Assyria,

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this is the word which the Lord hath
spoken concerning him.

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The virgin, the daughter of Zion,
hath despised thee, and laughed thee to

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scorn.

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The daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her
head at thee.

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Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed?

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And against whom hast thou exalted thy
voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high?

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Even against the Holy One of Israel?

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By thy servants hast thou reproached the
Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of

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my chariots am I come up to the height of
the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon,

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and I will cut down the tall cedars
thereof, and the choice fir-trees thereof,

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and I will enter into the height of his
border, and the forest of his carmel.

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I have digged, and drunk water,
and with the sole of my feet have I dried

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up all the rivers of the besieged places.

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Hast thou not heard long ago how I have
done it, and of ancient times that I have

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formed it?

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Now have I brought it to pass,
that thou shouldst be to lay waste

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defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

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Therefore their inhabitants were of small
power, they were dismayed and confounded.

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They were as the grass of the field,
and as the green herb, as the grass on the

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housetops, and as corn blasted before it
be grown up.

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But I know thy abode, and thy going out,
and thy coming in, and thy rage against

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me, because thy rage against me,
and thy tumult is come up into mine ears.

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Therefore will I put my hook in thy nose,
and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn

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thee back by the way which thou camest.

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And this shall be a sign unto thee,
ye shall eat this year such as groweth of

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itself, and the second year, that which
springeth are the same.

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And in the third year sow ye, and reap,
and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit

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thereof.

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And the remnant that is escaped of the
house of Judah shall again take root

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downward, and bear fruit upward.

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For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a
remnant, and they that escape out of Mount

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Zion, the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall
do this.

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Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning
the king of Assyria, He shall not come

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into this city, nor shoot an arrow there,
nor come before it with shields,

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nor cast a bank against it.

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By the way that he came, by the same shall
he return, and shall not come into this

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city, saith the Lord.

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For I will defend this city to save it for
mine own sake, and for my servant David's

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sake.

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Then the angel of the Lord went forth,
and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a

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hundred and fourscore and five thousand.

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And when they arose early in the morning,
behold, they were all dead corpses.

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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed,
and went and returned, and dwelt at

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Nineveh.

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And it came to pass, as he was worshipping
in the house of Nisroch his god,

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that Adrammelech and Cherezer his sons
smote him with a sword.

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And they escaped into the land of Armenia,
and Esarhaddon his son reigned in his

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stead. End