2 Kings 19:29–36

²⁹“And this shall be the sign for you: This year you shall eat what grows of itself and in the second year what springs from that; then in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.^{* 30}The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward,^{* 31}for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.^*

³²“Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city, shoot an arrow there, come before it with a shield, or cast up a siege ramp against it. ³³By the way that he came, by the same he shall return; he shall not come into this city, says the Lord.^{* 34}For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”^*

Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death

³⁵That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.^{* 36}Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.^*