“Hezekiah PRAYED to the Lord: ‘LORD, the GOD of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You ALONE are GOD over all the kingdoms of the earth. YOU have made HEAVEN and EARTH. GIVE EAR, LORD, and HEAR; OPEN YOUR EYES, LORD, and SEE; listen to the words Sennacherib has sent to r-i-d-i-c-u-l-e the living GOD. It is true, LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste these nations and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. Now, Lord our God, DELIVER US from his hand, so that ALL the KINGDOMS of the earth may KNOW that You ALONE, LORD, are GOD.’”
“That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a 185,000 in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.”
2 Kings 19:15-19, 35-37
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