Isaiah 37 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 37Hezekiah Consults Isaiah

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8The Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah, for he had heard that the king had left Lachish.

9 heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush, “He has set out to fight against you.” When he heard it, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,

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28 and your sitting down,

your going out and coming in

and your raging against me.

29 v 34 ; Isa 10.12; 30.28; Ezek 38.4Because you have raged against me

and your arrogance has come to my ears,

I will put my hook in your nose

and my bit in your mouth;

I will turn you back on the way

by which you came.

30“And this shall be the sign for you: This year eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.

31v 4; Isa 4.2; 10.20; 27.6The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,

32v 4; 2 Kings 19.31; Isa 9.7; Zech 1.14for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. 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, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it.

34By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.

352 Kings 20.6; Isa 38.6; 48.9, 11For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death

36 2 Kings 19.35; Isa 10.12, 33, 34 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.

37Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.

38Ezra 4.2; Jer 51.27As he was worshiping in the house of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. His son Esar-haddon succeeded him.