II Kings · Chapter 19 King James Version

II Kings 19:4

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The Scripture

(4) It may be the LORD thy God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master hath sent to reproach the living God; and will reprove the words which the LORD thy God hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left.
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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