2 Kings 19:29–36

²⁹“This will be the sign^k for you, Hezekiah:

“This year you will eat what grows by itself,^l

and the second year what springs from that.

But in the third year sow and reap,

plant vineyards^m and eat their fruit.

³⁰Once more a remnantⁿ of the kingdom of Judah

will take root^o below and bear fruit above.

³¹For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,^p

and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.^q

“The zeal^r of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

³²“Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria:

“ ‘He will not enter this city

or shoot an arrow here.

He will not come before it with shield

or build a siege ramp against it.

³³By the way that he came he will return;^s

he will not enter this city,

declares the Lord.

³⁴I will defend^t this city and save it,

for my sake and for the sake of David^u my servant.’ ”

³⁵That night the angel of the Lord^v went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!^{w 36}So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.^x He returned to Nineveh^y and stayed there.