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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.
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One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.