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2 Kings 19:29-37

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29 'Then this shall be 1the sign for you: you will eat this year what grows of itself, in the second year what springs from the same, and in the third year sow, reap, plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
30 '2The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
31 'For out of Jerusalem will go forth a remnant, and 3out of Mount Zion survivors. 4The zeal of the LORD will perform this.
32 'Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, "5He will not come to this city or shoot an arrow there; and he will not come before it with a shield or throw up a siege ramp against it.
33 "6By the way that he came, by the same he will return, and he shall not come to this city,"' declares the LORD.
34 '7For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and 8for My servant David's sake.' "
35 9Then it happened that night that the angel of the LORD went out and struck 185,000 * * * in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were dead *.
36 So 10Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at 11Nineveh.
37 It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that 12Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into 13the land of Ararat. And 14Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.
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2 Kings 19:29-37 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO 2 KINGS 19

This chapter relates that King Hezekiah, on a report made to him of Rabshakeh's speech, sent a message to the prophet Isaiah to pray for him, who returned him a comfortable and encouraging answer, 2Ki 19:1-7 and that upon Rabshakeh's return to the king of Assyria, he sent to Hezekiah a terrifying letter, 2Ki 19:8-13, which Hezekiah spread before the Lord, and prayed unto him to save him and his people out of the hands of the king of Assyria, 2Ki 19:14-19, to which he had a gracious answer sent him by the prophet Isaiah, promising him deliverance from the Assyrian army, 2Ki 19:20-34, which accordingly was destroyed by an angel in one night, and Sennacherib fleeing to Nineveh, was slain by his two sons, 2Ki 19:35-37.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 14

  • 1. Exodus 3:12; 2 Kings 20:8, 9
  • 2. 2 Kings 19:4; 2 Chronicles 32:22, 23
  • 3. Isaiah 10:20
  • 4. Isaiah 9:7
  • 5. Isaiah 8:7-10
  • 6. 2 Kings 19:28
  • 7. 2 Kings 20:6; Isaiah 31:5
  • 8. 1 Kings 11:12, 13
  • 9. 2 Samuel 24:16; 2 Chronicles 32:21
  • 10. 2 Kin 19:7, 28, 33
  • 11. Jonah 1:2
  • 12. 2 Kings 19:17, 31
  • 13. Genesis 8:4; Jeremiah 51:27
  • 14. Ezra 4:2

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Lit "eating"
  • [b]. Lit "those who escape"
  • [c]. Some ancient mss read "the LORD of hosts"
  • [d]. Lit "they"
  • [e]. Lit "dead bodies"
  • [f]. Some ancient mss read "Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him"
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