Isaiah Prophesies Sennacherib's Fall
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Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: z 'Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, a I have heard.'
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"This is the word which the LORD has spoken concerning him:
'The virgin, b the daughter of Zion,
Has despised you, laughed you to scorn;
The daughter of Jerusalem
c Has shaken her head behind your back!
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'Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
Against whom have you raised your voice,
And lifted up your eyes on high?
Against d the Holy One of Israel.
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e By your messengers you have reproached the Lord,
And said: f "By the multitude of my chariots
I have come up to the height of the mountains,
To the limits of Lebanon;
I will cut down its tall cedars
And its choice cypress trees;
I will enter the extremity of its borders,
To its fruitful forest.
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I have dug and drunk strange water,
And with the soles of my feet I have g dried up
All the brooks of defense."
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'Did you not hear long ago
How h I made it,
From ancient times that I formed it?
Now I have brought it to pass,
That i you should be
For crushing fortified cities into heaps of ruins.
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Therefore their inhabitants had little power;
They were dismayed and confounded;
They were as the grass of the field
And the green herb,
As j the grass on the housetops
And grain blighted before it is grown.
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'But k I know your dwelling place,
Your going out and your coming in,
And your rage against Me.
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Because your rage against Me and your tumult
Have come up to My ears,
Therefore l I will put My hook in your nose
And My bridle in your lips,
And I will turn you back
m By the way which you came.
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'This shall be a n sign to you:
You shall eat this year such as grows of 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.
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o And the remnant who have escaped of the house of Judah
Shall again take root downward,
And bear fruit upward.
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For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant,
And those who escape from Mount Zion.
p The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.'
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"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria:
'He shall q not come into this city,
Nor shoot an arrow there,
Nor come before it with shield,
Nor build a siege mound against it.
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By the way that he came,
By the same shall he return;
And he shall not come into this city,'
Says the LORD.
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'For r I will s defend this city, to save it
For My own sake and t for My servant David's sake.' "
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And u it came to pass on a certain night that the angel 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.
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at v Nineveh.
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Now it came to pass, as he was worshiping in the temple of Nisroch his god, that his sons w Adrammelech and Sharezer x struck him down with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Then y Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.
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Isaiah 37:21
Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel, 'Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria.
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2 Kings 20:5
Return and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father: "I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the LORD.
Psalms 65:2
O You who hear prayer, To You all flesh will come.
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Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore you shall say this word to them: 'Let my eyes flow with tears night and day, And let them not cease; For the virgin daughter of my people Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.
Lamentations 2:13
How shall I console you? To what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is spread wide as the sea; Who can heal you?
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Psalms 22:7
All those who see Me ridicule Me; They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying.
Psalms 22:8
"He trusted in the LORD, let Him rescue Him; Let Him deliver Him, since He delights in Him!"
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Jeremiah 51:5
For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the LORD of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
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2 Kings 18:17
Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rabsaris, and the Rabshakeh from Lachish, with a great army against Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they went and stood by the aqueduct from the upper pool, which was on the highway to the Fuller's Field.
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Psalms 20:7
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; But we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
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Isaiah 19:6
The rivers will turn foul; The brooks of defense will be emptied and dried up; The reeds and rushes will wither.
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Isaiah 45:7
I form the light and create darkness, I make peace and create calamity; I, the LORD, do all these things.
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Isaiah 10:5
Woe to Assyria, the rod of My anger And the staff in whose hand is My indignation.
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against an ungodly nation, And against the people of My wrath I will give him charge, To seize the spoil, to take the prey, And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
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Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, Which withers before it grows up.
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Psalms 139:1 - 3
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Isaiah 37:28
But I know your dwelling place, Your going out and your coming in, And your rage against Me.
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Job 41:2
Can you put a reed through his nose, Or pierce his jaw with a hook?
Ezekiel 29:4
But I will put hooks in your jaws, And cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales; I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, And all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales.
Ezekiel 38:4
I will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and lead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, all splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.
Amos 4:2
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days shall come upon you When He will take you away with fishhooks, And your posterity with fishhooks.
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2 Kings 19:33
By the way that he came, By the same shall he return; And he shall not come into this city,' Says the LORD.
2 Kings 19:36
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.
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Exodus 3:12
So He said, "I will certainly be with you. And ...
1 Samuel 2:34
Now this shall be a sign to you that will come ...
2 Kings 20:8
And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, "What is the sign ...
2 Kings 20:9
Then Isaiah said, "This is the sign to you from...
Isaiah 7:11 - 14
"Ask a sign for yourself from the LORD your God...
Luke 2:12
"And this will be the sign to you: You will fin...
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2 Kings 19:4
'It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.'"
2 Chronicles 32:22
Thus the LORD saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria, and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.
2 Chronicles 32:23
And many brought gifts to the LORD at Jerusalem, and presents to Hezekiah king of Judah, so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations thereafter.
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2 Kings 25:26
And all the people, small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose and went to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, To order it and establish it with judgment and justice From that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
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Isaiah 8:7 - 10
Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up over them The waters of the River, strong and mighty - The king of Assyria and all his glory; He will go up over all his channels And go over all his banks.
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2 Kings 20:6
"And I will add to your days fifteen years. I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city for My own sake, and for the sake of My servant David." '"
2 Chronicles 32:21
Then the LORD sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword there.
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Isaiah 31:5
Like birds flying about, So will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem. Defending, He will also deliver it; Passing over, He will preserve it.
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1 Kings 11:12
Nevertheless I will not do it in your days, for the sake of your father David; I will tear it out of the hand of your son.
1 Kings 11:13
"However I will not tear away the whole kingdom; I will give one tribe to your son for the sake of My servant David, and for the sake of Jerusalem which I have chosen."
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Exodus 12:29
And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
Isaiah 10:12 - 19
Therefore it shall come to pass, when the Lord has performed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, that He will say, "I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his haughty looks.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel 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.
Hosea 1:7
Yet I will have mercy on the house of Judah, Will save them by the LORD their God, And will not save them by bow, Nor by sword or battle, By horses or horsemen.
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Genesis 10:11
From that land he went to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth Ir, Calah.
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2 Kings 17:31
And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.
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2 Kings 19:7
"Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land." '"
2 Chronicles 32:21
Then the LORD sent an angel who cut down every mighty man of valor, leader, and captain in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned shamefaced to his own land. And when he had gone into the temple of his god, some of his own offspring struck him down with the sword there.
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Ezra 4:2
They came to Zerubbabel and the heads of the fathers' houses, and said to them, "Let us build with you, for we seek your God as you do; and we have sacrificed to Him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.
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