2 Kings 19:29–36

²⁹“This will be the sign^ac for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, and in the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. ³⁰The surviving remnant^ad of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors, from Mount Zion.^ae The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.^af

³²Therefore, this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

He will not enter this city,

shoot an arrow here,

come before it with a shield,

or build up a siege ramp against it.^ag

³³He will go back

the way he came,

and he will not enter this city.

This is the Lord’s declaration.

³⁴I will defend this city and rescue it

for my sake and for the sake of my servant David.”^a

DEFEAT AND DEATH OF SENNACHERIB

³⁵That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!^{b 36}So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.^c