³²“ ‘Therefore thus says Yahweh to the king of Assyria, “He shall not come to this city, nor shall he shoot an arrow there, nor shall he bring a small shield near her, nor shall he cast a siege ramp against her. ³³By the way that he came to her he shall return; but to this city, he shall not come,” declares Yahweh. ³⁴And I will defend this city to save her for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”

An Angel Neutralizes the Assyrian Army

³⁵It happened in that night that an angel of Yahweh went out, and he struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. When they got up early in the morning, look! All of them were dead corpses. ³⁶Then Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and went and returned and lived in Nineveh. ³⁷It happened that he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, and Adrammelech and Sharezer^c struck him with the sword. Then they escaped into the land of Ararat, and Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

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Footnotes

cSo Kethib; Qere adds “his sons”