2 Kings 19:31–37

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. ³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria left and went back to Nineveh and stayed there.

³⁷One day as Sennacherib was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with a sword. Then they escaped to the land of Ararat. So Sennacherib’s son Esarhaddon became king of Assyria.