2 Kings 19:29–35

²⁹“Then the Lord said, ‘Hezekiah, I will give you this sign:

This year you will eat the grain that grows wild,

and the second year you will eat what grows wild from that.

But in the third year, plant grain and harvest it.

Plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

³⁰Some of the people in the family of Judah

will escape.

Like plants that take root,

they will grow strong and have many children.

³¹A few people will come out of Jerusalem alive;

a few from Mount Zion will live.

The strong love of the Lord All-Powerful

will make this happen.’

³²“So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:

‘He will not enter this city

or even shoot an arrow here.

He will not fight against it with shields

or build a ramp to attack the city walls.

³³He will return to his country the same way he came,

and he will not enter this city,’

says the Lord.

³⁴‘I will defend and save this city

for my sake and for the sake of David, my servant.’ ”

³⁵That night the angel of the Lord went out and killed one hundred eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead bodies.