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2 Kings 19:5 In-Context
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They told him, âThis is what Hezekiah says: This day is a day of distress and rebuke and disgrace, as when children come to the moment of birth and there is no strength to deliver them.
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It may be that the LORD your God will hear all the words of the field commander, whom his master, the king of Assyria, has sent to ridicule the living God, and that he will rebuke him for the words the LORD your God has heard. Therefore pray for the remnant that still survives.â
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When King Hezekiahâs officials came to Isaiah,
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Isaiah said to them, âTell your master, âThis is what the LORD says: Do not be afraid of what you have heardâthose words with which the underlings of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
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Listen! When he hears a certain report, I will make him want to return to his own country, and there I will have him cut down with the sword.â â