2 Kings 19 (NET)

2 Kings 19:1¹When King Hezekiah heard this, he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the Lord ’s temple.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 21:272 Kgs 18:372 Chr 32:20-22Gen 37:34Isa 37:1-7Job 1:20-211 Kgs 21:291 Sam 4:122 Chr 7:15-162 Kgs 5:7

2 Kings 19:2²He sent Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, clothed in sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:1Isa 2:12 Chr 26:222 Kgs 18:182 Kgs 22:13-14Isa 37:2-5Luke 3:4Matt 4:14

2 Kings 19:3³They told him, “This is what Hezekiah says: ‘This is a day of distress, insults, and humiliation, as when a baby is ready to leave the birth canal, but the mother lacks the strength to push it through.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 66:9Jer 30:5-7Heb 3:15-16Hos 13:13Isa 26:17-182 Kgs 18:29Hos 5:15-6:1Ps 123:3-4Ps 39:11Ps 95:8

2 Kings 19:4⁴Perhaps the Lord your God will hear all these things the chief adviser has spoken on behalf of his master, the king of Assyria, who sent him to taunt the living God. When the Lord your God hears, perhaps he will punish him for the things he has said. So pray for this remnant that remains.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 16:12Ezek 36:37Jas 5:16-17Josh 14:12Rom 9:271 Sam 14:61 Sam 17:452 Chr 28:5-62 Chr 32:202 Kgs 17:5-6

2 Kings 19:5⁵When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

2 Kings 19:6⁶Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘This is what the Lord has said: “Don’t be afraid because of the things you have heard, because the Assyrian king’s officers have insulted me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:172 Kgs 18:35Isa 37:6-382 Chr 20:152 Chr 20:172 Kgs 18:302 Kgs 6:16Deut 20:1Deut 20:3-4Exod 14:13

2 Kings 19:7⁷Look, I will take control of his mind; he will receive a report and return to his own land. I will cut him down with a sword in his own land.”’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 7:62 Chr 32:21Isa 10:16-18Isa 11:4Obad 1:1Ps 18:14-152 Kgs 19:35-37Jer 49:14Jer 51:1Jer 51:46

2 Kings 19:8⁸When the chief adviser heard the king of Assyria had departed from Lachish, he left and went to Libnah, where the king was campaigning.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:14Josh 10:292 Kgs 8:22Isa 37:8-9Josh 12:11Josh 12:15Josh 15:39Josh 15:42Mic 1:13

2 Kings 19:9⁹The king heard that King Tirhakah of Ethiopia was marching out to fight him. He again sent messengers to Hezekiah, ordering them:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 23:272 Kgs 18:17Isa 37:9

2 Kings 19:10¹⁰“Tell King Hezekiah of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust mislead you when he says, “Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:52 Kgs 18:29-302 Chr 32:15-19Isa 37:10-14

2 Kings 19:11¹¹Certainly you have heard how the kings of Assyria have annihilated all lands. Do you really think you will be rescued?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:13-142 Kgs 17:5-112 Kgs 19:17-18Isa 10:8-11

2 Kings 19:12¹²Were the nations whom my ancestors destroyed—the nations of Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden in Telassar—rescued by their gods?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:6Ezek 27:23Gen 11:31Isa 37:121 Chr 5:262 Kgs 18:33-34Acts 7:4Gen 2:8Gen 29:4

2 Kings 19:13¹³Where are the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:342 Kgs 17:24Isa 11:11Isa 37:13-20Jer 39:5Jer 49:23Num 13:21Num 34:8Zech 9:2

2 Kings 19:14¹⁴Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to the Lord ’s temple and spread it out before the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:14Ps 123:1-4Ps 91:1-21 Kgs 8:28-30Ezra 9:5Ps 74:10-11

2 Kings 19:15¹⁵Hezekiah prayed before the Lord: “Lord God of Israel, who is enthroned above the cherubim! You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the sky and the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 18:392 Kgs 5:15Dan 4:34-35Dan 9:3-4Exod 25:22Isa 44:6Isa 44:8Jer 10:10-121 Kgs 8:232 Chr 14:11

2 Kings 19:16¹⁶Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to the message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 6:402 Kgs 19:4Isa 37:17Ps 31:21 Kgs 8:29Dan 9:18Heb 11:26Isa 37:4Ps 79:12

2 Kings 19:17¹⁷It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Chr 5:261 Cor 14:252 Kgs 16:92 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 17:6Acts 4:27Dan 2:47Isa 10:9-11Isa 5:9Isa 7:17-18

2 Kings 19:18¹⁸They have burned the gods of the nations, for they are not really gods, but only the product of human hands manufactured from wood and stone. That is why the Assyrians could destroy them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 17:29Isa 44:9-20Jer 10:3-92 Sam 5:21Isa 37:18-19Isa 46:1-2Jer 10:14-16Ps 115:4-8

2 Kings 19:19¹⁹Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so that all the kingdoms of the earth will know that you, Lord, are the only God.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 83:181 Kgs 8:43Ps 67:1-21 Kgs 18:36-371 Kgs 20:281 Sam 17:45-47Dan 4:34-37Exod 9:15-16Josh 7:92 Kgs 19:15

2 Kings 19:20²⁰Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘I have heard your prayer concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 20:52 Chr 32:20-211 John 5:14-15Acts 10:31Isa 65:24Jer 33:32 Sam 15:31Acts 10:4John 11:422 Sam 17:23

2 Kings 19:21²¹This is what the Lord says about him: “‘“The virgin daughter Zion despises you, she makes fun of you; Daughter Jerusalem shakes her head after you.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 2:13Jer 14:17Job 16:4Matt 27:39Isa 37:21-35Lam 2:15Ps 109:25Ps 22:7-8Amos 5:2Isa 1:8

2 Kings 19:22²²Whom have you taunted and hurled insults at? At whom have you shouted, and looked so arrogantly? At the Holy One of Israel!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:24Ps 71:222 Thess 2:4Isa 30:11-12Isa 30:15Jer 51:52 Cor 10:52 Kgs 18:28-352 Kgs 19:4Dan 5:20-23

2 Kings 19:23²³Through your messengers you taunted the Sovereign Master, ‘With my many chariots I climbed up the high mountains, the slopes of Lebanon. I cut down its tall cedars and its best evergreens. I invaded its most remote regions, its thickest woods.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 18:17Ps 20:7Isa 10:182 Chr 26:102 Chr 32:172 Kgs 18:232 Kgs 18:33-34Ezek 31:3-18Isa 10:14Isa 10:7-11

2 Kings 19:24²⁴I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. With the soles of my feet I dried up all the rivers of Egypt.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 20:102 Sam 17:13Dan 4:30Exod 15:9Isa 19:6

2 Kings 19:25²⁵Certainly you must have heard! Long ago I worked it out. In ancient times I planned it; and now I am bringing it to pass. The plan is this: Fortified cities will crash into heaps of ruins.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 45:7Isa 10:5-6Isa 37:26-27Acts 4:27-28Isa 10:15Isa 46:10-11Isa 54:16Ps 33:11Ps 76:10

2 Kings 19:26²⁶Their residents are powerless, they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field, or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Pet 1:24Isa 40:6-8Jas 1:10-11Jer 37:10Jer 50:36-37Jer 51:30Jer 51:32Num 11:23Num 14:9Ps 102:11

2 Kings 19:27²⁷I know where you live and everything you do.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 37:28-29Jer 23:23-24Deut 28:6Ps 121:8Ps 139:1-11Deut 28:19

2 Kings 19:28²⁸Because you rage against me, and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 29:42 Kgs 19:33Ezek 38:4Amos 4:2Isa 30:28Job 41:22 Kgs 19:36-37Acts 7:51Ezek 19:9John 15:18

2 Kings 19:29²⁹“‘This will be your confirmation that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own from that. But in the third year you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 25:20-222 Kgs 20:8-9Exod 3:12Isa 37:30Luke 2:121 Sam 2:34Isa 7:11-14Lev 25:4-52 Kgs 19:212 Kgs 19:31-34

2 Kings 19:30³⁰Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:4Isa 27:62 Chr 32:22-23Isa 10:20-22Isa 1:9Isa 37:31-32Ps 80:9

2 Kings 19:31³¹“‘For a remnant will leave Jerusalem; survivors will come out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will accomplish this.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 9:7Isa 10:20Rom 11:5Rom 9:272 Kgs 19:4Ezek 20:9Ezek 5:13Isa 59:17Isa 63:15Jer 44:14

2 Kings 19:32³²So this is what the Lord has said about the king of Assyria: “He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shield-carrying warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Sam 20:15Isa 8:7-10Ezek 21:22Isa 10:24-25Isa 10:28-32Isa 37:33-35Luke 19:43-44

2 Kings 19:33³³He will go back the way he came. He will not enter this city,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:282 Kgs 19:36

2 Kings 19:34³⁴“‘I will shield this city and rescue it for the sake of my reputation and because of my promise to David my servant.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Kgs 11:12-132 Kgs 20:61 Kgs 15:4Isa 31:5Jer 33:26Isa 38:6Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:21Deut 32:27Eph 1:6

2 Kings 19:35³⁵That very night the angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 in the Assyrian camp. When they got up early the next morning, there were all the corpses.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:21-222 Sam 24:16Exod 12:29-30Isa 37:361 Thess 5:2-3Ps 76:5-7Acts 12:23Dan 5:30Hos 1:7Isa 10:33

2 Kings 19:36³⁶So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jonah 1:22 Kgs 19:282 Kgs 19:332 Kgs 19:7Gen 10:11-12Jonah 3:2-10Matt 12:41Nah 1:1Nah 2:8

2 Kings 19:37³⁷One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They escaped to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezra 4:2Gen 8:42 Kgs 19:7Jer 51:272 Chr 32:142 Chr 32:192 Chr 32:212 Kgs 18:302 Kgs 18:52 Kgs 19:10