2 Kings 19:29–36

²⁹‘This shall be a ⁿsign to you:

You shall eat this year such as grows ²of itself,

And in the second year what springs from the same;

Also in the third year sow and reap,

Plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

^30oAnd the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah

Shall again take root downward,

And bear fruit upward.

³¹For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant,

And those who escape from Mount Zion.

^pThe zeal of the Lord ³of hosts will do this.’

³²“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria:

‘He shall ^qnot come into this city,

Nor shoot an arrow there,

Nor come before it with shield,

Nor build a siege mound against it.

³³By the way that he came,

By the same shall he return;

And he shall not come into this city,’

Says the Lord.

³⁴‘For ^rI will ^sdefend this city, to save it

For My own sake and ^tfor My servant David’s sake.’ ”

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death

³⁵And ^uit came to pass on a certain night that the ⁴angel of the Lord went out, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when people arose early in the morning, there were the corpses—all dead. ³⁶So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at ^vNineveh.