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He will go back by the same road he came, without entering this city. I, the Lord, have spoken.
34
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.' "
35
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!
36
Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.
37
One day, when he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords and then escaped to the land of Ararat. Another of his sons, Esarhaddon, succeeded him as emperor.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.