2 Kings 19:29–36

²⁹And this, Hezekiah, will be for you the confirming sign:

This year you’ll eat the gleanings, next year

whatever you can beg, borrow, or steal;

But the third year you’ll sow and harvest,

plant vineyards and eat grapes.

³⁰A remnant of the family of Judah yet again

will sink down roots and raise up fruit.

³¹The remnant will come from Jerusalem,

the survivors from Mount Zion.

The Zeal of God

will make it happen.

³²To sum up, this is what God says regarding the king of Assyria:

He won’t enter this city,

nor shoot so much as a single arrow there;

Won’t brandish a shield,

won’t even begin to set siege;

³³He’ll go home by the same road he came;

he won’t enter this city. God’s word!

³⁴I’ll shield this city, I’ll save this city,

for my sake and for David’s sake.

³⁵And it so happened that that very night an angel of God came and massacred 185,000 Assyrians. When the people of Jerusalem got up next morning, there it was—a whole camp of corpses!

^36–37Sennacherib king of Assyria got out of there fast, headed straight home for Nineveh, and stayed put.