Isaiah 37 (NET)

Isaiah 37:1¹When 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:2 Kgs 19:1-372 Kgs 22:11Ezra 9:5Isa 36:22-37:38Job 1:20-21Jonah 3:5-6Jer 36:24Matt 11:21

Isaiah 37:2²Eliakim the palace supervisor, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, clothed in sackcloth, sent this message to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:12 Chr 20:202 Kgs 18:182 Kgs 19:22 Kgs 22:12-14Isa 36:3Isa 37:14Joel 1:13

Isaiah 37:3³“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 66:9Hos 13:13Isa 26:17-182 Kgs 19:3Ps 50:15Isa 33:22 Chr 15:4Ps 91:15Ps 95:8Rev 3:19

Isaiah 37:4⁴Perhaps 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:Isa 1:9Isa 36:20Isa 10:22Ps 106:231 Sam 12:191 Sam 12:231 Sam 14:61 Sam 17:261 Sam 17:361 Sam 7:8

Isaiah 37:5⁵When King Hezekiah’s servants came to Isaiah,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI

Isaiah 37:6⁶Isaiah 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—these insults the king of Assyria’s servants have hurled against me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 7:4Isa 35:4Mark 5:362 Chr 20:15-202 Kgs 19:5-72 Kgs 22:15-20Exod 14:13Isa 10:24-25Isa 41:10-14Isa 43:1-2

Isaiah 37:7⁷Look, 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 Chr 32:21Isa 31:8-92 Kgs 7:6Isa 10:16-18Isa 10:33-34Isa 17:13-14Isa 29:5-8Isa 30:28-33Isa 33:10-12Isa 37:36-38

Isaiah 37:8⁸When 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:Josh 10:292 Chr 21:102 Kgs 19:8-92 Kgs 8:22Josh 10:31-34Josh 12:11Josh 15:39Josh 21:13Num 33:20-21

Isaiah 37:9⁹The 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 23:27-28Isa 18:1Isa 20:5Isa 37:7

Isaiah 37:10¹⁰“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:Isa 36:152 Kgs 18:52 Chr 32:15-192 Chr 32:7-82 Kgs 19:10-13Isa 36:20Isa 36:4Matt 27:43Ps 22:8

Isaiah 37:11¹¹Certainly 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:Isa 36:18-202 Kgs 17:4-62 Kgs 18:33-35Isa 10:7-14Isa 14:17Isa 37:18-19

Isaiah 37:12¹²Were the nations whom my predecessors 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:Gen 11:312 Kgs 17:62 Kgs 18:112 Kgs 19:12Acts 7:2Amos 1:5Ezek 27:23Ezek 28:13Gen 12:1-4Gen 12:14

Isaiah 37:13¹³Where is the king of Hamath or the king of Arpad or the kings of Lair, Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivvah?’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 17:30-312 Kgs 18:342 Kgs 19:13Isa 10:9Isa 36:19Jer 49:23

Isaiah 37:14¹⁴Hezekiah 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:2 Kgs 19:14Ps 123:1-41 Kgs 8:28-301 Kgs 8:381 Kgs 9:32 Chr 6:20-42Isa 37:1Joel 2:17-20Ps 143:6Ps 27:5

Isaiah 37:15¹⁵Hezekiah prayed before the Lord:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 7:8-92 Chr 14:112 Chr 20:6-122 Kgs 19:15-192 Sam 7:18-29Dan 9:3-4Jas 5:13Phil 4:6-7

Isaiah 37:16¹⁶“O Lord of Heaven’s Armies, O God of Israel, who is enthroned on 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:Exod 25:22Ps 99:1Ps 86:101 Sam 4:4Isa 44:24Ps 80:1Col 1:16Heb 4:16John 1:31 Kgs 18:32

Isaiah 37:17¹⁷Pay attention, Lord, and hear! Open your eyes, Lord, and observe! Listen to this entire message Sennacherib sent and how he taunts the living God!Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Chr 6:40Ps 17:61 Pet 3:12Isa 37:4Ps 10:14-15Ps 74:222 Sam 16:12Dan 9:17-19Job 36:7Ps 130:1-2

Isaiah 37:18¹⁸It is true, Lord, that the kings of Assyria have destroyed all the nations and their lands.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 15:29Nah 2:11-121 Chr 5:262 Kgs 16:92 Kgs 17:242 Kgs 17:6

Isaiah 37:19¹⁹They 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:2 Sam 5:21Exod 32:20Hos 8:6Isa 10:9-11Isa 26:14Isa 36:18-20Isa 40:19-21Isa 41:24Isa 41:29Isa 41:7

Isaiah 37:20²⁰Now, O Lord our God, rescue us from his power, so all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are the Lord.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 46:101 Kgs 18:36-37Ps 83:17-18Ezek 36:23Isa 42:8Mal 1:11Ps 67:1-21 Kgs 8:431 Sam 17:45-47Exod 9:15-16

Isaiah 37:21²¹Isaiah son of Amoz sent this message to Hezekiah: “This is what the Lord God of Israel has said: ‘As to what you have prayed to me concerning King Sennacherib of Assyria,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:20-212 Sam 15:312 Sam 17:23Acts 4:31Dan 9:20-23Isa 37:2Isa 38:3-6Isa 58:9Isa 65:24Job 22:27

Isaiah 37:22²²this 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:Job 16:4Isa 1:8Jer 14:17Lam 2:13Ps 22:7-8Ps 9:14Zech 2:10Zeph 3:141 Sam 17:361 Sam 17:44-47

Isaiah 37:23²³Whom 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:Dan 5:20-23Ezek 39:72 Thess 2:4Dan 7:25Ezek 28:9Isa 17:7Isa 41:162 Chr 32:172 Kgs 19:222 Kgs 19:4

Isaiah 37:24²⁴Through your messengers you taunted the Lord, “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 remotest regions, its thickest woods.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 14:8Isa 10:182 Kgs 19:22-23Dan 4:20-22Dan 4:30Dan 4:8-14Exod 15:9Ezek 31:3-18Isa 10:13-14Isa 29:17

Isaiah 37:25²⁵I dug wells and drank water. 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 Kgs 19:23-24Deut 11:10Isa 36:12

Isaiah 37:26²⁶Certainly 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:Acts 4:27-28Acts 2:231 Pet 2:8Isa 10:15Isa 46:10-11Isa 10:5-6Amos 3:6Gen 50:20Jude 1:4Isa 25:1-2

Isaiah 37:27²⁷Their 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:Ps 129:61 Pet 1:242 Kgs 19:26Isa 19:16Isa 40:6-8Jas 1:10-11Jer 37:10Jer 5:10Num 14:9Ps 103:15

Isaiah 37:28²⁸I know where you live and everything you do and how you rage against me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 139:1-11Rev 2:13Jer 23:23-24Prov 15:3Prov 5:21

Isaiah 37:29²⁹Because you rage against me and the uproar you create has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose, and my bit between your lips, and I will lead you back the way you came.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 38:4Isa 10:12Isa 30:28Isa 37:34Ezek 29:42 Kgs 19:27-28Acts 22:22Acts 9:4Amos 4:2Isa 36:10

Isaiah 37:30³⁰“This will be your reminder that I have spoken the truth: This year you will eat what grows wild, and next year what grows on its own. But the year after that you will plant seed and harvest crops; you will plant vines and consume their produce.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:291 Kgs 13:3-52 Kgs 20:9Exod 3:12Isa 7:14Lev 25:4-5Isa 38:7Isa 7:21-25Lev 25:20-22

Isaiah 37:31³¹Those who remain in Judah will take root in the ground and bear fruit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 27:62 Kgs 19:30-31Ps 80:9Isa 1:9Isa 10:20-22Jer 44:28Rom 11:5Rom 9:27Gal 3:29Isa 65:9

Isaiah 37:32³²“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 9:72 Kgs 19:31Isa 59:17Joel 2:18Zech 1:14Isa 37:20

Isaiah 37:33³³So this is what the Lord says 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 shielded warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Kgs 19:32-35Ezek 21:22Isa 10:32-34Isa 17:12Isa 17:14Isa 33:20Isa 8:7-10Luke 19:43-44

Isaiah 37:34³⁴He 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:Isa 37:29Prov 21:30

Isaiah 37:35³⁵I 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:2 Kgs 20:6Isa 38:6Isa 31:5Eph 1:14Isa 43:25Jer 23:5-6Jer 33:15-16Ezek 37:24-25Jer 30:91 Kgs 11:36

Isaiah 37:36³⁶The angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 troops 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 Kgs 19:35Isa 10:121 Thess 5:2-32 Sam 24:16Isa 10:33-34Isa 31:8Acts 12:23Isa 33:10-12Ps 35:5-61 Chr 21:16

Isaiah 37:37³⁷So 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 1:2Jonah 3:3Gen 10:11-12Isa 31:9Isa 37:29Isa 37:7Jonah 4:11Matt 12:41Nah 1:1

Isaiah 37:38³⁸One day, as he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword. They ran away to the land of Ararat; his son Esarhaddon replaced him as king.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Gen 8:4Jer 51:27Ezra 4:22 Chr 32:142 Chr 32:192 Chr 32:212 Kgs 19:36-37Isa 14:12Isa 14:9Isa 36:15