English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Kings Book, chapter 19, verse 8 in Lxxen Version

2 Kings 19 : 1 (LXXEN)

And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, an went into the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 19 : 2 (LXXEN)

And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with

Gr. sackclothes

sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.

2 Kings 19 : 3 (LXXEN)

And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day is a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-pangs, but the mother has no strength.

2 Kings 19 : 4 (LXXEN)

Gr. if by any means

Peradventure the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: and thou shalt

Gr. take

offer thy prayer for the remnant that is found.

2 Kings 19 : 5 (LXXEN)

So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.

2 Kings 19 : 6 (LXXEN)

And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.

2 Kings 19 : 7 (LXXEN)

Behold, I

Gr. give

send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.

2 Kings 19 : 8 (LXXEN)

So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he had departed from Lachis.

2 Kings 19 : 9 (LXXEN)

And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with thee: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

2 Kings 19 : 10 (LXXEN)

Let not thy God on whom thou trustest encourage thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.

2 Kings 19 : 11 (LXXEN)

Behold, thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to

Gr. curse them, q. d. devoted to destruction

waste them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

2 Kings 19 : 12 (LXXEN)

Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?

2 Kings 19 : 13 (LXXEN)

Where is the king of Haemath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?

2 Kings 19 : 14 (LXXEN)

And Ezekias took

Gr. the books

the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read

Gr. them

it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, an Ezekias spread it before the Lord,

2 Kings 19 : 15 (LXXEN)

and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwellest over the cherubs, thou art the only god in all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

2 Kings 19 : 16 (LXXEN)

Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

2 Kings 19 : 17 (LXXEN)

For truly, Lord, the kings of

Gr. the Assyrians

Assyria have wasted the nations,

2 Kings 19 : 18 (LXXEN)

and

Gr. gave

have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.

2 Kings 19 : 19 (LXXEN)

And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou alone art the Lord God.

2 Kings 19 : 20 (LXXEN)

And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard

Lit. what things thou hast prayed

thy prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

2 Kings 19 : 21 (LXXEN)

This is the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

2 Kings 19 : 22 (LXXEN)

Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou reviled? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and raised thine eyes on high? Is it against the Holy One of Israel?

2 Kings 19 : 23 (LXXEN)

By

Gr. by the hand of

thy messengers thou has reproached the Lord, and hast said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the

Gr. bulk or size

height of his cedar, and his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.

2 Kings 19 : 24 (LXXEN)

I have

Alex. reads efulaxa

refreshed myself, and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.

2 Kings 19 : 25 (LXXEN)

I have brought about the matter, I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the

Gr. captivities

destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, even of strong cities.

2 Kings 19 : 26 (LXXEN)

And they that dwelt in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became as grass of the field, or as the green herb, the grass growing on houses, and that which is trodden down

Or, before it stands up

by him that stands upon it.

2 Kings 19 : 27 (LXXEN)

But I know thy

Gr. seat

down-sitting, and thy going forth, and thy rage against me.

2 Kings 19 : 28 (LXXEN)

Because thou was angry against me, and thy fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in thy nostrils, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

2 Kings 19 : 29 (LXXEN)

And this shall be a sign to thee; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year let there be sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat ye the fruit of them.

2 Kings 19 : 30 (LXXEN)

And he shall

Gr. add

increase

Alex. to diases oikon

him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant shall strike root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.

2 Kings 19 : 31 (LXXEN)

For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.

2 Kings 19 : 32 (LXXEN)

Is it not so? Thus saith the Lord

Or, of; Hebrew

concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot

Gr. a weapon

an arrow there, neither shall a shield

Gr. come against it beforehand, etc.

come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.

2 Kings 19 : 33 (LXXEN)

By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, saith the Lord.

2 Kings 19 : 34 (LXXEN)

And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

2 Kings 19 : 35 (LXXEN)

And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, an smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, these were all dead corpses.

2 Kings 19 : 36 (LXXEN)

And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineve.

2 Kings 19 : 37 (LXXEN)

And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.