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'For I will defend this city to save it for My own sake and for My servant David's sake.' "
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Then 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 .
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.
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It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.