Seeking help from Isaiah (0:38 ) (1:29 ) When King Hezekiah heard their report he tore his clothes, put on sackcloth, and went to the LORD's temple. He sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz. (0:58 ) They said to him, "This is what Hezekiah says: 'Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace. It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them. (1:59 ) Perhaps the LORD your God heard the Assyrians mock the living God, and will rebuke them. (2:18 ) Therefore offer a prayer for the surviving remnant.' Isaiah said to them: (2:46 ) Don't be afraid because of their blaspheming words, I will cause him to fall by the sword.' (3:09 ) When the royal spokesman heard that the king of Assyria had pulled out of Lachish, he left and found him fighting against Libnah. The king had heard concerning King Tirhakah of Cush, "He has set out to fight against you." (3:29 ) So when he heard this, he sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying: 'Don't let your God, on whom you rely, deceive you by promising that (4:02 ) Jerusalem won't be handed over to the king of Assyria. Look, you have heard how the kings of Assyria completely destroyed the nations that my predecessors conquered…

HEZEKIAH'S PRAYER FOR DELIVERANCE (6:22 ) (5:06 ) Hezekiah took the letter from the messengers' hands, read it, then went up to the LORD's temple and spread it out before the LORD and prayed: (5:55 ) LORD of Armies, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God of all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. LORD, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated all these countries and their lands…save us so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you alone are God.

SENNACHERIB'S FALL (7:59 ) (7:09 ) Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: "The LORD, the God of Israel, says, 'Because you prayed to me about King Sennacherib of Assyria, this is the word the LORD has spoken against him: (9:10 ) Virgin Daughter Zion despises you and scorns you; against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel! You have mocked the LORD through your servants…

(0:00 ) Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; (10:20 ) I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble…But I know your sitting down, your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me. Because your raging against me and your arrogance have reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.

(8:40 ) (11:02 ) [To Hezekiah] “This will be the sign for you: This year you will eat what grows on its own, the second year what grows from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

(11:44 ) "Therefore, this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: He will not enter this city, shoot an arrow here, come before it with a shield, or build up a siege ramp against it. He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city. This is the LORD's declaration. (12:33 ) I will defend this city and rescue it for my sake and for the sake of my servant David."

(12:52 ) Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh. One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. Then his son Esar-haddon became king in his place.