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" 'I will guard this city and save it. I will do it for myself. And I will do it for my servant David.' "
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That night the angel of the LORD went into the camp of the Assyrians. He put to death 185,000 soldiers there. The people of Jerusalem got up the next morning. They looked out and saw all of the dead bodies.
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So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, took the army tents down. Then he left. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
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One day Sennacherib was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch. His sons Adrammelech and Sharezer cut him down with their swords. Then they escaped to the land of Ararat. Esarhaddon became the next king after his father Sennacherib.