2 Kings 19:33

33 He shall turn again by the way by which he came, and he shall not enter into this city, saith the Lord;

2 Kings 19:33 Meaning and Commentary

2 Kings 19:33

(See Gill on 2 Kings 19:1)

2 Kings 19:33 In-Context

31 For the relics, or folk left, shall go out of Jerusalem, and those who shall be saved, shall go out of the hill of Zion (For those who be left shall go out from Jerusalem, and those who shall be saved, shall go forth from Mount Zion); the fervent love of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
32 Wherefore the Lord saith these things of the king of Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city (of) Jerusalem, neither he shall send an arrow into it, neither shield of him shall occupy it, neither strong hold, either besieging, shall compass it.
33 He shall turn again by the way by which he came, and he shall not enter into this city, saith the Lord;
34 and I shall defend this city, and I shall save it for myself, and for David, my servant. (and I shall defend this city, and I shall save it for my sake, and for the sake of my servant David.)
35 Therefore it was done, in that night the angel of the Lord came, and smote in the castles of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand (And so it was done that night, that the angel of the Lord came, and killed a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the tents, or the camp, of the Assyrians). And when Sennacherib had risen early, he saw all the bodies of [the] dead men;
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