Sennacherib's Fall

Isaiah 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,

²² this is the word that the Lord has spoken concerning him:
"'She despises you, she scorns you -
_x the virgin daughter of Zion;
she wags her head behind you -
the daughter of Jerusalem.

²³ "'Whom have you mocked and reviled?
Against whom have you raised your voice
and lifted your eyes to the heights?
Against _y the Holy One of Israel!
²⁴ By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, _z With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
_a to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.
²⁵ I dug wells
and drank waters,
to dry up with the sole of my foot
all _b the streams _c of Egypt.

²⁶ _d "'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,
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 ₁ before it is grown.

²⁸ "'I know your sitting down
and your going out and coming in,
and your raging against me.
²⁹ _e 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 _f I will turn you back on the way
by which you came.'

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. ³¹ And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah _g shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³² _h For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. _i The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

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 _j cast up a siege mound against it. ³⁴ By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord. ³⁵ _k For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for _l the sake of my servant David."

³⁶ _m 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 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at _n Nineveh. 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 _o Ararat, _p Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.

Cross References
Micah 4:13
Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hoofs bronze; you shall beat in pieces many peoples; and shall devote their gain to the Lord, their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth.
Isaiah 1:8
And the daughter of Zion is left like a booth in a vineyard, like a lodge in a cucumber field, like a besieged city.
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Isaiah 10:17
The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
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Isaiah 8:7 - 8
Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
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Isaiah 14:8
The cypresses rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon, saying, 'Since you were laid low, no woodcutter comes up against us.
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Isaiah 19:6
And its canals will become foul, and the branches of Egypt's Nile will diminish and dry up, reeds and rushes will rot away.
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Isaiah 20:4
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptian captives and the Cushite exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with buttocks uncovered, the nakedness of Egypt.
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Isaiah 10:5
Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
Isaiah 10:15
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
Isaiah 25:1 - 2
O Lord, you are my God; I will exalt you; I will praise your name, for you have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
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Isaiah 10:12
When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he will punish the speech of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the boastful look in his eyes.
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Isaiah 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.
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Isaiah 27:6
In days to come Jacob shall take root, Israel shall blossom and put forth shoots and fill the whole world with fruit.
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Isaiah 14:32
What will one answer the messengers of the nation? "The Lord has founded Zion, and in her the afflicted of his people find refuge.
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Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and of peace there will be no end, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forth and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.
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Habakkuk 1:10
At kings they scoff, and at rulers they laugh. They laugh at every fortress, for they pile up earth and take it.
Luke 19:43
For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side
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Isaiah 31:5
Like birds hovering, so the Lord of hosts will protect Jerusalem; he will protect and deliver it; he will spare and rescue it.
Isaiah 38:6
I will deliver you and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria, and will defend this city.
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Isaiah 29:1
Ah, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! Add year to year; let the feasts run their round.
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Isaiah 17:14
At evening time, behold, terror! Before morning...
Isaiah 30:31
The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the vo...
Isaiah 31:8
And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of ...
Isaiah 10:33
Behold, the Lord God of hosts will lop the boug...
Isaiah 14:25
That I will break the Assyrian in my land, and ...
Isaiah 29:5
But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be...
Cross References
Genesis 10:11
From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
Jonah 1:2
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it, for their evil has come up before me."
Jonah 3:3
So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
Jonah 4:11
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than 120,000 persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?
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Genesis 8:4
And in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.
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Ezra 4:2
They approached Zerubbabel and the heads of fathers' houses and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we worship your God as you do, and we have been sacrificing to him ever since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria who brought us here.

Sennacherib's Fall

Isaiah 37

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Isaiah 37:21 - 38

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