II Kings · Chapter 19 King James Version

II Kings 19:35

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The Scripture

(35) And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Chapter overview (whole chapter)

Hezekiah spread Sennacherib's threatening letter before the LORD in the temple and prayed for deliverance, and the prophet Isaiah assured him that the Assyrian king would not enter Jerusalem. That night the angel of the LORD struck down 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and when Sennacherib returned to Nineveh, he was murdered by his own sons.

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