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“Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria: “ ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
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By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city, declares the LORD.
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I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’ ”
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That night the angel of the LORD went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
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So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.