2 Kings 19:29–36

²⁹“This will be the sign ^gfor 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 ^hof the house of Israel will again take root downward and bear fruit upward. ³¹For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and survivors, from Mount Zion. ⁱThe zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this. ^j

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

He will not enter this city

or shoot an arrow there

or come before it with a shield

or build up an assault ramp against it. ^k

³³He will go back

on the road that 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.” ^l

Defeat and Death of Sennacherib

³⁵That night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! ^m36So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh. ⁿ