English Bible Presentation Sharing - 2-Kings Book, chapter 19, verse 40 in Mkjv Version

2 Kings 19 : 1 (MKJV)

And it happened when King Hezekiah heard, he tore his clothes and covered himself with sackcloth. And he went into the house of Jehovah.

2 Kings 19 : 2 (MKJV)

And he sent Eliakim who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.

2 Kings 19 : 3 (MKJV)

And they said to him, So says Hezekiah, This is a day of trouble and of rebuke and contempt. For the sons have come to the birth, and there is no strength to bring forth.

2 Kings 19 : 4 (MKJV)

It may be Jehovah your God will hear all the words of the chief cupbearer with which his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah your God has heard. And you shall lift up prayer for the rest who are left.

2 Kings 19 : 5 (MKJV)

And the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.

2 Kings 19 : 6 (MKJV)

And Isaiah said to them, You shall say to your master, So says Jehovah, Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

2 Kings 19 : 7 (MKJV)

Behold, I will send a blast on him, and he shall hear a rumor and shall return to his own land. And I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

2 Kings 19 : 8 (MKJV)

And the chief cupbearer returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

2 Kings 19 : 9 (MKJV)

And when he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he has come out to fight against you, he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,

2 Kings 19 : 10 (MKJV)

So you shall speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Do not let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19 : 11 (MKJV)

Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by completely destroying them. And shall you be delivered?

2 Kings 19 : 12 (MKJV)

Have the gods of the nations delivered them, nations which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden in Telassar?

2 Kings 19 : 13 (MKJV)

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and of Ivah?

2 Kings 19 : 14 (MKJV)

And Hezekiah received the letters from the hand of the messengers, and read it. And Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.

2 Kings 19 : 15 (MKJV)

And Hezekiah prayed before Jehovah and said, O Jehovah, the God of Israel, who dwells between the cherubs, You are God Himself, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made the heavens and the earth.

2 Kings 19 : 16 (MKJV)

Jehovah, bow down Your ear and hear. O Jehovah, open Your eyes and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, who has sent him to taunt the living God.

2 Kings 19 : 17 (MKJV)

Truly, Jehovah, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,

2 Kings 19 : 18 (MKJV)

and have thrown their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone, and they have destroyed them.

2 Kings 19 : 19 (MKJV)

And now, O, Jehovah our God, I beseech You, save us out of his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You are Jehovah God, and You only.

2 Kings 19 : 20 (MKJV)

And Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, So says Jehovah, the God of Israel, I have heard what you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria.

2 Kings 19 : 21 (MKJV)

This is the word that Jehovah has spoken concerning him: The virgin, the daughter of Zion, has despised you and laughed you to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.

2 Kings 19 : 22 (MKJV)

Whom have you mocked and blasphemed? And against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Even against the Holy One of Israel!

2 Kings 19 : 23 (MKJV)

You have mocked Jehovah by your messengers, and have said, With the multitude of my chariots I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down its tall cedar trees, its choice fir trees. And I will enter into the lodgings of its borders, its densest forest;

2 Kings 19 : 24 (MKJV)

I have dug and drunk foreign waters, and with the sole of my feet I have dried up all the rivers of Egypt.

2 Kings 19 : 25 (MKJV)

Have you not heard it from afar, I made it? From days of old I fashioned it! Now I have caused it to come; that you should make fortified cities desolate heaps of ruins.

2 Kings 19 : 26 (MKJV)

And their people were of small power, they were fearful and put to shame. They were like the grass of the field, and the green herb, like the grass on the house-tops, and like grain blasted before it was grown up.

2 Kings 19 : 27 (MKJV)

But I know your sitting down, and your going out, and your coming in, and your rage against Me.

2 Kings 19 : 28 (MKJV)

Because of your rage against Me, and because your arrogance has come up into My ears, even I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips. And I will turn you back by the way in which you came.

2 Kings 19 : 29 (MKJV)

And this shall be a sign to you: you shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springs up of the same. And in the third year, sow and reap and plant vineyards and eat the fruits of them.

2 Kings 19 : 30 (MKJV)

And the remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

2 Kings 19 : 31 (MKJV)

For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they who escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts shall do this.

2 Kings 19 : 32 (MKJV)

So Jehovah says this concerning the king of Assyria. He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor throw up a bank against it.

2 Kings 19 : 33 (MKJV)

By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and shall not come into this city, says Jehovah.

2 Kings 19 : 34 (MKJV)

For I will defend this city, to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.

2 Kings 19 : 35 (MKJV)

And it happened that night, the Angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. And they arose early in the morning, and behold, they were all dead bodies.

2 Kings 19 : 36 (MKJV)

And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed. And he went and returned and lived at Nineveh.

2 Kings 19 : 37 (MKJV)

And it happened as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword. And they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.