32
"Therefore thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
33
By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, says the LORD.
34
For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David."
35
And that night the angel of the LORD went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
36
Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home, and dwelt at Nin'eveh.
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