4. Krallar 19

¹Kral Hizkiya bunu işittiğinde giysilerini yırttı, üzerine çul sarındı ve Rabbin tapınağına girdi.

²Saray kâhyası Elyakim'i, yazıcı Şevna'yı ve çullara sarınmış kâhinlerin ileri gelenlerini, Amos oğlu Peygamber Yeşaya'ya gönderdi.

³Ona şöyle dediler: "Hizkiya şöyle diyor: 'Bugün sıkıntı, azarlama ve gazap günüdür; çünkü çocuklar doğum sancısı anına ulaştı, fakat doğuracak olana güç kalmadı.'

⁴Belki senin Tanrın Rab, yaşayan Tanrı'yı aşağılamak ve senin Tanrın Rabbin işittiği sözlerle küfretmek üzere efendisi Asur Kralı tarafından gönderilen Rabşake'nin tüm sözlerini işitir; sen de geride kalan bu azınlık için bir dua yükseltirsin."

⁵Kral Hizkiya'nın görevlileri Yeşaya'ya geldiler.

⁶Yeşaya onlara şöyle dedi: "Efendinize şöyle söyleyin: 'Rab diyor ki: Asur Kralı'nın uşaklarının beni aşağılayan, işittiğin o sözlerinden korkma.'

⁷İşte, onun içine öyle bir ruh vereceğim ki, bir haber alıp kendi ülkesine dönecek; onu kendi ülkesinde kılıçla yere sereceğim."

⁸Rabşake geri döndüğünde, Asur Kralı'nın Lakiş'ten ayrıldığını işiterek Libna'ya karşı savaştığını gördü.

⁹Asur Kralı, Etiyopya Kralı Tirhaka hakkında, "İşte, seninle savaşmak üzere yola çıktı" dendiğini işitti. Bunun üzerine geri döndü ve Hizkiya'ya ulaklar göndererek şöyle dedi:

¹⁰"Kendisine güvendiğin Tanrın, 'Yeruşalim Asur Kralı'nın eline teslim edilmeyecek' diyerek seni gururlandırmasın.

¹¹İşte, Asur krallarının bütün ülkelere ne yaptığını, onları lanetleyip nasıl tamamen yok ettiğini işittin; sen mi kurtulacaksın?

¹²Atalarımın yok ettiği ulusların ilahları onları gerçekten kurtarabildi mi? Gozan'ı, Harran'ı, Refis'i ve Teasten'deki Eden oğullarını kurtarabildiler mi?

¹³Nerededir Hamat Kralı ve Arpat Kralı? Ve nerededir Sefarvayim kentinin kralı, Ana ve Ava?"

¹⁴Hizkiya mektupları ulakların elinden alıp okudu. Sonra Rabbin tapınağına çıkıp onları Rabbin önünde açtı.

¹⁵Ve Hizkiya şöyle dua etti: "Keruvlar üzerinde oturan İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab! Yeryüzünün bütün krallıklarının tek Tanrısı sensin. Göğü ve yeri sen yarattın.

¹⁶Kulak ver, ya Rab, ve işit! Gözlerini aç, ya Rab, ve gör! Sanharih'in yaşayan Tanrı'yı aşağılamak için gönderdiği sözleri işit.

¹⁷Gerçekten, ya Rab, Asur kralları ulusları ıssızlaştırdılar,

¹⁸ve onların ilahlarını ateşe attılar; çünkü onlar ilah değil, sadece insan ellerinin işi, tahta ve taştı; bu yüzden onları yok ettiler.

¹⁹Ve şimdi, ey Tanrımız Rab, bizi onun elinden kurtar ki, yeryüzünün bütün krallıkları tek Tanrı'nın sen Rab olduğunu bilsin."

²⁰Bunun üzerine Amos oğlu Yeşaya, Hizkiya'ya şu haberi gönderdi: "Güçlerin Tanrısı, İsrail'in Tanrısı Rab şöyle diyor: 'Asur Kralı Sanharih hakkında bana ettiğin duayı işittim.'

²¹Rabbin onun hakkında söylediği söz şudur: 'Bakire Siyon kızı seni hiçe sayıyor, seninle alay ediyor; Yeruşalim kızı senin arkandan başını salladı.'

²²Sen kimi aşağıladın, kime küfrettin? Kime karşı sesini yükselttin ve gözlerini yukarıya, İsrail'in Kutsalı'na doğru diktin?

²³Ulaklarının aracılığıyla Rabbi aşağıladın ve dedin ki: 'Çok sayıdaki savaş arabamla dağların doruklarına, Lübnan'ın yamaçlarına çıktım. Boylu sedir ağaçlarını, seçkin selvilerini kestim; ormanın ve Karmel'in ortasına kadar ulaştım.'

²⁴Ben soğuttum ve yabancı sular içtim; ayağımın tabanıyla kuşatılmış yerlerin bütün nehirlerini kuruttum.

²⁵Onu ben biçimlendirdim, onu ben topladım; ve o, savaşçı göçmenlerin surlu kentleri yıkması için gerçekleşti.

²⁶Orada oturanların elleri zayıfladı, dehşete düşüp utandırıldılar; kır otu, yeşil bitki, damlardaki ot ve ayakta duranın önünde çiğnenen yer gibi oldular.

²⁷Senin oturuşunu, çıkışını ve bana karşı öfkelenmeni bilirim.

²⁸Bana karşı öfkelendiğin ve azgınlığın kulaklarıma ulaştığı için, burnuna çengelimi takacak, dudaklarına gem vuracağım; seni geldiğin yoldan geri döndüreceğim.

²⁹Senin için işaret şu olacak: Bu yıl kendiliğinden biteni yiyin, ikinci yıl ise ondan türeyeni yiyin; üçüncü yıl ekin, biçin, bağlar dikip meyvesini yiyin.

³⁰Yahuda evinden kurtulup geri kalanlar yeniden aşağıya doğru kök salacak ve yukarıya doğru meyve verecek.

³¹Çünkü Yeruşalim'den bir kalıntı, Siyon Dağı'nden kurtulanlar çıkacak. Güçlerin Rabbinin coşkusu bunu yapacak.

³²Böyle değil mi? Asur Kralı hakkında Rab şöyle diyor: 'Bu kente girmeyecek, oraya ok atmayacak, ona kalkanla yaklaşmayacak ve karşısında toprak yığıp tepe oluşturmayacak.'

³³Geldiği yoldan geri dönecek ve bu kente girmeyecek, diyor Rab.

³⁴'Kendim için ve kulum Davut için bu kenti koruyup onun üzerinde kalkan olacağım.'"

³⁵Ve geceye doğru gerçekleşti ki, Rabbin meleği çıkıp Asur ordugahında yüz seksen beş bin kişiyi vurdu. Ertesi sabah erkenden kalktıklarında, her yerin ölü bedenlerle dolu olduğunu gördüler.

³⁶Bunun üzerine Asur Kralı Sanharih ordugahını bozup gitti, geri dönüp Ninova'da yaşadı.

³⁷Bir gün ilahı Neserak'ın tapınağında tapınmaktayken, oğulları Adrammelek ile Şareser onu kılıçla vurduktan sonra Ararat toprağına sığındılar. Yerine oğlu Asordan kral oldu.

¹ΚΑΙ ἐγένετο ὡς ἤκουσεν ὁ βασιλεὺς ᾿Εζεκίας, καὶ διέρρηξε τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ, καὶ περιεβάλετο σάκκον καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου.

²καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ῾Ελιακὶμ τὸν οἰκονόμον καὶ Σωμνὰν τὸν γραμματέα καὶ τοὺς πρεσβυτέρους τῶν ἱερέων περιβεβλημένους σάκκους πρὸς ῾Ησαΐαν τὸν προφήτην, υἱὸν ᾿Αμώς,

³καὶ εἶπον πρὸς αὐτόν· τάδε λέγει ᾿Εζεκίας· ἡμέρα θλίψεως καὶ ἐλεγμοῦ καὶ παροργισμοῦ ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη· ὅτι ἦλθον υἱοὶ ἕως ὠδίνων, καὶ ἰσχὺς οὐκ ἔστι τῇ τικτούσῃ·

⁴εἴ πως εἰσακούσεται Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου πάντας τοὺς λόγους Ῥαψάκου, ὃν ἀπέστειλεν αὐτὸν βασιλεὺς ᾿Ασσυρίων ὁ κύριος αὐτοῦ ὀνειδίζειν Θεὸν ζῶντα καὶ βλασφημεῖν ἐν λόγοις, οἷς ἤκουσε Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, καὶ λήψῃ προσευχὴν περὶ τοῦ λείμματος τοῦ εὑρισκομένου.

⁵καὶ ἦλθον οἱ παῖδες τοῦ βασιλέως ᾿Εζεκίου πρὸς ῾Ησαΐαν,

⁶καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ῾Ησαΐας· τάδε ἐρεῖτε πρὸς τὸν κύριον ὑμῶν· τάδε λέγει Κύριος· μὴ φοβηθῇς ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων, ὧν ἤκουσας, ὧν ἐβλασφήμησαν τὰ παιδάρια βασιλέως ᾿Ασσυρίων·

⁷ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ δίδωμι ἐν αὐτῷ πνεῦμα, καὶ ἀκούσεται ἀγγελίαν καὶ ἀποστραφήσεται εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταβαλῶ αὐτὸν ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ ἐν τῇ γῇ αὐτοῦ.

⁸Καὶ ἐπέστρεψε Ῥαψάκης, καὶ εὗρε τὸν βασιλέα ᾿Ασσυρίων πολεμοῦντα ἐπὶ Λοβνά, ὅτι ἤκουσεν ὅτι ἀπῇρεν ἐκ Λαχίς.

⁹καὶ ἤκουσε περὶ Θαρακὰ βασιλέως Αἰθιόπων λέγων· ἰδοὺ ἐξῆλθε πολεμεῖν μετὰ σοῦ. καὶ ἐπέστρεψε καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ἀγγέλους πρὸς ᾿Εζεκίαν λέγων·

¹⁰μὴ ἐπαιρέτω σε ὁ Θεός σου, ἐφ᾿ ᾧ σὺ πέποιθας ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ λέγων· οὐ μὴ παραδοθῇ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ εἰς χεῖρας βασιλέως ᾿Ασσυρίων.

¹¹ἰδοὺ σὺ ἤκουσας πάντα ὅσα ἐποίησαν βασιλεῖς ᾿Ασσυρίων πάσαις ταῖς γαίαις τοῦ ἀναθεματίσαι αὐτάς, καὶ σὺ ρυσθήσῃ;

¹²μὴ ἐξαιρούμενοι ἐξείλαντο αὐτοὺς οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν, οὓς διέφθειραν οἱ πατέρες μου, τήν τε Γωζὰν καὶ τὴν Χαρρὰν καὶ τὴν Ῥαφὶς καὶ υἱοὺς ᾿Εδὲμ τοὺς ἐν Θαεσθέν;

¹³ποῦ ἐστιν ὁ βασιλεὺς Αἰμὰθ καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς ᾿Αρφάδ; καὶ ποῦ ἐστι βασιλεὺς τῆς πόλεως Σεπφαρουαΐν ᾿Ανὰ καὶ ᾿Αβά;

¹⁴καὶ ἔλαβεν ᾿Εζεκίας τὰ βιβλία ἐκ χειρὸς τῶν ἀγγέλων καὶ ἀνέγνω αὐτά· καὶ ἀνέβη εἰς οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ ἀνέπτυξεν αὐτὰ ᾿Εζεκίας ἐναντίον Κυρίου

¹⁵καὶ εἶπε· Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ᾿Ισραὴλ ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῶν Χερουβίμ, σὺ εἶ ὁ Θεὸς μόνος ἐν πάσαις ταῖς βασιλείαις τῆς γῆς, σὺ ἐποίησας τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν.

¹⁶κλῖνον, Κύριε, τὸ οὖς σου καὶ ἄκουσον· ἄνοιξον, Κύριε, τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου καὶ ἰδὲ καὶ ἄκουσον τοὺς λόγους Σενναχηρίμ, οὓς ἀπέστειλεν ὀνειδίζειν Θεὸν ζῶντα.

¹⁷ὅτι ἀληθείᾳ, Κύριε, ἠρήμωσαν βασιλεῖς ᾿Ασσυρίων τὰ ἔθνη

¹⁸καὶ ἔδωκαν τοὺς θεοὺς αὐτῶν εἰς τὸ πῦρ, ὅτι οὐ θεοί εἰσιν, ἀλλ᾿ ἢ ἔργα χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων, ξύλα καὶ λίθοι, καὶ ἀπώλεσαν αὐτούς.

¹⁹καὶ νῦν, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, σῶσον ἡμᾶς ἐκ χειρὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ γνώσονται πᾶσαι αἱ βασιλεῖαι τῆς γῆς, ὅτι σὺ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς μόνος.

²⁰Καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ῾Ησαΐας υἱὸς ᾿Αμὼς πρὸς ᾿Εζεκίαν λέγων· τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τῶν δυνάμεων Θεὸς ᾿Ισραήλ· ἃ προσηύξω πρός με περὶ Σενναχηρὶμ βασιλέως ᾿Ασσυρίων, ἤκουσα.

²¹οὖτος ὁ λόγος, ὃν ἐλάλησε Κύριος ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν· ἐξουδένωσέ σε καὶ ἐμυκτήρισέ σε παρθένος θυγάτηρ Σιών, ἐπὶ σοὶ κεφαλὴν αὐτῆς ἐκίνησε θυγάτηρ ῾Ιερουσαλήμ.

²²τίνα ὠνείδισας καὶ τίνα ἐβλασφήμησας; καὶ ἐπὶ τίνα ὕψωσας φωνήν; καὶ ᾖρας εἰς ὕψος τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου εἰς τὸν ἅγιον τοῦ ᾿Ισραήλ.

²³ἐν χειρὶ ἀγγέλων σου ὠνείδισας Κύριον καὶ εἶπας· ἐν τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἁρμάτων μου ἐγὼ ἀναβήσομαι εἰς ὕψος ὀρέων, μηροὺς τοῦ Λιβάνου, καὶ ἔκοψα τὸ μέγεθος τῆς κέδρου αὐτοῦ, τὰ ἐκλεκτὰ κυπαρίσσων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἦλθον εἰς μέσον δρυμοῦ καὶ Καρμήλου.

²⁴ἐγὼ ἔψυξα καὶ ἔπιον ὕδατα ἀλλότρια καὶ ἐξηρήμωσα τῷ ἴχνει τοῦ ποδός μου πάντας ποταμοὺς περιοχῆς.

²⁵ἔπλασα αὐτήν, συνήγαγον αὐτήν, καὶ ἐγενήθη εἰς ἐπάρσεις ἀποικεσιῶν μαχίμων, πόλεις ὀχυράς.

²⁶καὶ οἱ ἐνοικοῦντες ἐν αὐταῖς ἠσθένησαν τῇ χειρί, ἔπτηξαν καὶ κατῃσχύνθησαν, ἐγένοντο χόρτος ἀγροῦ ἢ χλωρὰ βοτάνη, χλόη δωμάτων καὶ πάτημα ἀπέναντι ἑστηκότος.

²⁷καὶ τὴν καθέδραν σου καὶ τὴν ἔξοδόν σου ἔγνων καὶ τὸν θυμόν σου ἐπ᾿ ἐμέ,

²⁸διὰ τὸ ὀργισθῆναί σε ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ καὶ τὸ στρῆνός σου ἀνέβη ἐν τοῖς ὠσί μου καὶ θήσω τὰ ἄγκιστρά μου ἐν τοῖς μυκτῆρσί σου καὶ χαλινὸν ἐν τοῖς χείλεσί σου καὶ ἀποστρέψω σε ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ, ᾗ ἦλθες ἐν αὐτῇ.

²⁹καὶ τοῦτόν σοι τὸ σημεῖον· φάγε τοῦτον τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν αὐτόματα καὶ τῷ ἔτει τῷ δευτέρῳ τὰ ἀνατέλλοντα· καὶ ἔτει τῷ τρίτῳ σπορὰ καὶ ἄμητος καὶ φυτεία ἀμπελώνων, καὶ φάγεσθε τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῶν.

³⁰καὶ προσθήσει τὸν διασεσωσμένον οἴκου ᾿Ιούδα τὸ ὑπολειφθὲν ρίζαν κάτω καὶ ποιήσει καρπὸν ἄνω.

³¹ὅτι ἐξ ῾Ιερουσαλὴμ ἐξελεύσεται κατάλειμμα καὶ ἀνασῳζόμενος ἐξ ὄρους Σιών· ὁ ζῆλος Κυρίου τῶν δυνάμεων ποιήσει τοῦτο.

³²οὐχ οὕτως; τάδε λέγει Κύριος πρὸς βασιλέα ᾿Ασσυρίων· οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται εἰς τὴν πόλιν ταύτην καὶ οὐ τοξεύσει ἐκεῖ βέλος, καὶ οὐ προφθάσει αὐτὴν θυρεός, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐκχέῃ πρὸς αὐτὴν πρόσχωμα·

³³τῇ ὁδῷ, ᾗ ἦλθεν, ἐν αὐτῇ ἀποστραφήσεται καὶ εἰς τὴν πόλιν ταύτην οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται, λέγει Κύριος,

³⁴καὶ ὑπερασπιῶ ὑπὲρ τῆς πόλεως ταύτης δι᾿ ἐμὲ καὶ διὰ Δαυὶδ τὸν δοῦλόν μου.

³⁵Καὶ ἐγένετο ἕως νυκτὸς καὶ ἐξῆλθεν ἄγγελος Κυρίου καὶ ἐπάταξεν ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ ᾿Ασσυρίων ἑκατὸν ὀγδοηκονταπέντε χιλιάδας· καὶ ὤρθρισαν τὸ πρωΐ, καὶ ἰδοὺ πάντες σώματα νεκρά.

³⁶καὶ ἀπῇρε καὶ ἐπορεύθη καὶ ἀπέστρεψε Σενναχηρὶμ βασιλεὺς ᾿Ασσυρίων καὶ ᾤκησεν ἐν Νινευῆ.

³⁷καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῦ προσκυνοῦντος ἐν οἴκῳ Νεσερὰχ θεοῦ αὐτοῦ καὶ ᾿Αδραμέλεχ καὶ Σαρασάρ, οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐπάταξαν αὐτὸν ἐν μαχαίρᾳ, καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐσώθησαν εἰς γῆν ᾿Αραράθ· καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ᾿Ασορδὰν ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ ἀντ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

¹And it came to pass when king Ezekias heard it, that he rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.

²And he sent Heliakim the steward, and Somnas the scribe, and the elders of the priests, clothed with sackcloth, to Esaias the prophet the son of Amos.

³And they said to him, Thus says Ezekias, This day [is] a day of tribulation, and rebuke, and provocation: for the children are come to the travail-[pangs], but the mother has no strength.

⁴Peradventure the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rapsakes, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the living God and to revile him with the words which the Lord thy God has heard: and thou shalt offer [thy] prayer for the remnant that is found.

⁵So the servants of king Ezekias came to Esaias.

⁶And Esaias said to them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith the Lord, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of the Assyrians have blasphemed.

⁷Behold, I send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.

⁸So Rapsakes returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Lobna: for he heard that he [had] departed from Lachis.

⁹And he heard concerning Tharaca king of the Ethiopians, saying, Behold, he is come forth to fight with thee: and he returned, and sent messengers to Ezekias, saying,

¹⁰Let not thy God on whom thou trustest encourage thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hands of the king of the Assyrians.

¹¹Behold, thou hast heard all that the kings of the Assyrians have done in all the lands, to waste them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

¹²Have the gods of the nations at all delivered them, whom my fathers destroyed; both Gozan, and Charran, and Raphis, and the sons of Edem who were in Thaesthen?

¹³Where is the king of Haemath, and the king of Arphad? and where is the king of the city of Seppharvaim, of Ana, and Aba?

¹⁴And Ezekias took the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and he went up to the house of the Lord, and Ezekias spread it before the Lord,

¹⁵and said, O Lord God of Israel that dwellest over the cherubs, thou art the only God in all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth.

¹⁶Incline thine ear, O Lord, and hear: open, Lord, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sennacherim, which he has sent to reproach the living God.

¹⁷For truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have wasted the nations,

¹⁸and have cast their gods into the fire: because they are no gods, but the works of men’s hands, wood and stone; and they have destroyed them.

¹⁹And now, O Lord our God, deliver us out of his hand, and all the kingdoms of the earth shall know that thou alone [art] the Lord God.

²⁰And Esaias the son of Amos sent to Ezekias, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, I have heard thy prayer to me concerning Sennacherim king of the Assyrians.

²¹This [is] the word which the Lord has spoken against him; The virgin daughter of Sion has made light of thee, and mocked thee; the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at thee.

²²Whom hast thou reproached, and whom hast thou reviled? and against whom hast thou lifted up thy voice, and raised thine eyes on high? [Is it] against the Holy One of Israel?

²³by thy messengers thou has reproached the Lord, and hast said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the height of his cedar, [and] his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.

²⁴I have refreshed [myself], and have drunk strange waters, and I have dried up with the sole of my foot all the rivers of fortified places.

²⁵I have brought about [the matter], I have brought it to a conclusion; and it is come to the destruction of the bands of warlike prisoners, [even of] strong cities.

²⁶And they that dwelt in them were weak in hand, they quaked and were confounded, they became [as] grass of the field, or [as] the green herb, the grass [growing on] houses, and that which is trodden down by him that stands [upon it].

²⁷But I know thy down-sitting, and thy going forth, and thy rage against me.

²⁸Because thou was angry against me, and thy fierceness is come up into my ears, therefore will I put my hooks in thy nostrils, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

²⁹And this shall be a sign to thee; eat this year the things that grow of themselves, and in the second year the things which spring up: and in the third year [let there be] sowing, and reaping, and planting of vineyards, and eat ye the fruit of them.

³⁰And he shall increase him that has escaped of the house of Juda: and the remnant [shall strike] root beneath, and it shall produce fruit above.

³¹For from Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and he that escapes from the mountain of Sion: the zeal of the Lord of host shall do this.

³²[Is it] not so? Thus saith the Lord concerning the king of the Assyrians, He shall not enter into this city, and he shall not shoot an arrow there, neither shall a shield come against it, neither shall he heap a mound against it.

³³By the way by which he comes, by it shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, saith the Lord.

³⁴And I will defend this city as with a shield, for my own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

³⁵And it came to pass at night that the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and they rose early in the morning, and, behold, [these were] all dead corpses.

³⁶And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineve.

³⁷And it came to pass, while he was worshipping in the house of Meserach his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararath; and Asordan his son reigned in his stead.