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"And this is what the Lord has said about the Assyrian emperor: "He will not enter this city or shoot a single arrow against it. No soldiers with shields will come near the city, and no siege mounds will be built around it.
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He will go back by the same road he came, without entering this city. I, the Lord, have spoken.
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I will defend this city and protect it, for the sake of my own honor and because of the promise I made to my servant David.' "
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That night an angel of the Lord went to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 soldiers. At dawn the next day there they lay, all dead!
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Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.