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1 Cuando el rey Ezequías escuchó este informe, rasgó sus vestiduras, se vistió de ropa áspera, y entró en el templo del Señor a orar.
1 When King Hezekiah heard it, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into Yahweh’s house.
2 Y mandó a Eliaquín, a Sebna y a algunos de los sacerdotes más ancianos que se vistieran de ropa áspera y fueran a ver al profeta Isaías hijo de Amoz, y le dieran este mensaje:
2 He sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.
3 «Este es un día de tribulación, insulto y deshonra. Es como cuando un niño está a punto de nacer, pero la madre no tiene fuerzas para darlo a luz.
3 They said to him, “Hezekiah says, ‘Today is a day of trouble, of rebuke, and of rejection; for the children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.
4 Quizás el Señor tu Dios ha oído que el Rabsaces de Asiria desafió al Dios viviente, y lo castigará. Ora por los que todavía quedamos vivos».
4 It may be Yahweh your God will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to defy the living God, and will rebuke the words which Yahweh your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’”
5 Isaías les contestó a los mensajeros del rey: «Díganle al rey que esto es lo que el Señor le manda a decir: “No te preocupes por los insultos que estos asirios han lanzado contra mí.
5 So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah.
6 Not in this translation
6 Isaiah said to them, “Tell your master this: ‘Yahweh says, “Don’t be afraid of the words that you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.
7 Haré que el rey de Asiria reciba malas noticias de su tierra y decida regresar; y haré que lo maten cuando llegue a su tierra”».
7 Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
8 El Rabsaces asirio regresó ante su rey, y lo encontró en Libná, porque se había retirado de Laquis.
8 So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.
9 Poco después le llegó al rey la noticia de que el rey Tiracá, de Etiopía, venía a atacarlo. Antes de partir para hacer frente al ataque, envió este mensaje al rey Ezequías:
9 When he heard it said of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, “Behold, he has come out to fight against you,” he sent messengers again to Hezekiah, saying,
10 «No te dejes engañar por ese Dios en quien crees. No le creas cuando dice que nosotros no vamos a conquistar Jerusalén.
10 “Tell Hezekiah king of Judah this: ‘Don’t let your God in whom you trust deceive you, saying, Jerusalem will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.
11 Tú sabes perfectamente bien lo que los reyes de Asiria han hecho dondequiera que han ido: lo han destruido completamente todo. ¿Por qué tu caso va a ser diferente?
11 Behold, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly. Will you be delivered?
12 ¿Han podido contra nosotros los dioses de las otras naciones: Gozán, Jarán, Résef, y los descendientes de Edén que estaban en Telasar? Todos ellos han sido destruidos por los anteriores reyes de Asiria.
12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed—Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar?
13 ¿Qué le ocurrió al rey de Jamat y a los reyes de Arfad? ¿Qué le ocurrió a los reyes de Sefarvayin, Hená e Ivá?».
13 Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?’”
14 Ezequías tomó la carta que le entregaron los mensajeros de Senaquerib, la leyó y entró en el templo del Señor y la extendió delante del Señor.
14 Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers and read it. Then Hezekiah went up to Yahweh’s house, and spread it before Yahweh.
15 Allí hizo esta oración: «Señor, Dios de Israel, que te sientas en tu trono, por encima de los ángeles, sólo tú eres Dios de todos los reinos de la tierra, pues tú creaste los cielos y la tierra.
15 Hezekiah prayed before Yahweh, and said, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, enthroned above the cherubim, you are the God, even you alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
16 Inclínate, Señor, y escucha, te lo ruego. Abre tus ojos, Señor, y mira. Escucha a este hombre que desafía al Dios vivo.
16 Incline your ear, Yahweh, and hear. Open your eyes, Yahweh, and see. Hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to defy the living God.
17 Señor, es cierto que los reyes de Asiria han destruido a todas esas naciones
17 Truly, Yahweh, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
18 y han quemado sus ídolos. Pero estos no eran dioses. Fueron destruidos porque no eran sino ídolos de madera y de piedra, hechos por los hombres.
18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. Therefore they have destroyed them.
19 Señor, Dios nuestro, te rogamos que nos salves del poder del rey de Asiria. Así todos los reinos de la tierra sabrán que solamente tú eres Dios».
19 Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
20 Entonces el profeta Isaías hijo de Amoz envió este mensaje a Ezequías: «El Señor, Dios de Israel dice que ha escuchado tu petición acerca de Senaquerib, rey de Asiria.
20 Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.
21 Y esto es lo que el Señor, decreta contra él: »“La virgen hija de Sion, no te tiene miedo. La hija de Jerusalén te desprecia y se burla de ti.
21 This is the word that Yahweh has spoken concerning him: ‘The virgin daughter of Zion has despised you and ridiculed you. The daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at you.
22 ¿A quién has desafiado e insultado? ¿Contra quién has levantado con soberbia la voz? ¡Es contra el Santo de Israel que lo has hecho!
22 Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel!
23 »”Has dicho con jactancia: ‘Mis carros han conquistado las más altas montañas, ¡hasta la cúspide del Líbano! He cortado sus cedros más altos, he talado sus mejores cipreses, y he conquistado sus fronteras más lejanas.
23 By your messengers, you have defied the Lord, and have said, “With the multitude of my chariots, I have come up to the height of the mountains, to the innermost parts of Lebanon, and I will cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypress trees; and I will enter into his farthest lodging place, the forest of his fruitful field.
24 Me he refrescado en los manantiales de los pueblos que he vencido, y he destruido la fortaleza de Egipto con sólo pasar por allí’.
24 I have dug and drunk strange waters, and I will dry up all the rivers of Egypt with the sole of my feet.”
25 »”¿No te has dado cuenta que desde hace mucho, yo, el Señor, es quien te ha dejado hacer estas cosas? Yo ordené que conquistaras todas estas ciudades fortificadas.
25 Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.
26 Por eso, los pueblos que has conquistado no pudieron contra ti. Paralizados de terror y avergonzados, quedaron cual hierba del campo, cual césped tierno, como heno de los terrados que se marchita antes de la cosecha.
26 Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops and like grain blasted before it has grown up.
27 »”Yo sé todo de ti. Conozco todos tus planes y sé a dónde vas. Además, sé lo que has dicho en contra mía.
27 But I know your sitting down, your going out, your coming in, and your raging against me.
28 Debido a tu arrogancia contra mí, voy a poner un garfio en tu nariz, y frenos en tu boca, y te haré regresar por el camino que viniste.
28 Because of your raging against me, and because your arrogance has come up into my ears, therefore I will put my hook in your nose, and my bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way by which you came.’
29 »”Y esta es la prueba de que haré lo prometido: »”Este año mi pueblo comerá el trigo que saldrá espontáneamente, y lo usará como semilla para las siembras del próximo año; y en el tercer año tendrán una cosecha abundante.
29 “This will be the sign to you: This year, you will eat that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
30 »”Pueblo mío, Judá, que has sobrevivido; volverás a echar profundas raíces en la tierra y producirás fruto para el Señor.
30 The remnant that has escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
31 Un pequeño grupo de mi pueblo se hará fuerte en Jerusalén. El Señor está deseoso de hacer que esto ocurra.
31 For out of Jerusalem a remnant will go out, and out of Mount Zion those who shall escape. Yahweh’s zeal will perform this.
32 »”Y mi decisión en cuanto al rey de Asiria es que no entrará en esta ciudad. No estará delante de ella con escudo, ni tenderá rampas para subir por sus muros, ni disparará una sola flecha contra ella.
32 “Therefore Yahweh says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.
33 Volverá por el camino que vino,
33 He will return the same way that he came, and he will not come to this city,’ says Yahweh.
34 porque yo descenderé y salvaré a esta ciudad, por amor de mi nombre y por amor de mi siervo David”».
34 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for my servant David’s sake.’”
35 Aquella misma noche, el ángel del Señor dio muerte a ciento ochenta y cinco mil soldados del ejército asirio. A la mañana siguiente, el campo estaba lleno de cadáveres.
35 That night, Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
36 Entonces el rey Senaquerib regresó a Nínive.
36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home, and lived at Nineveh.
37 Pero un día que estaba adorando en el santuario del dios Nisroc, sus hijos Adramélec y Sarézer le dieron muerte, y escaparon a la región de Ararat. Y su hijo Esarjadón fue el nuevo rey de Asiria.
37 As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Adrammelech
A son of Sennacherib who with his brother Sharezer put their father to the sword in the temple of Nisroch and escaped to the land of Ararat.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Isaiah 37:38
Amoz
Named as the father of the prophet Isaiah.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 19:20; 2 Kings 20:1
Esar-haddon
Sennacherib's son, who reigned in his father's place after Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:37; Ezra 4:2; Isaiah 37:38
Hezekiah
A great reformer who trusted God and saw Jerusalem delivered from Assyria.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18-20; 2 Chron. 29-32; Isa. 36-39; Matt. 1:9-10
Isaiah
The prophet, son of Amoz, who told Hezekiah that Sennacherib would not enter Jerusalem, foretold his illness and recovery, brought back the shadow ten steps, and warned of the…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:2; 2 Kings 19:20; 2 Kings 20:1
Sennacherib
King of Assyria who captured Judah's fortified cities in Hezekiah's fourteenth year, sent the Rabshakeh against Jerusalem, lost 185,000 men to the angel of the LORD, and was…
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18:13; 2 Kings 19:16; 2 Kings 19:20
Shebnah
The scribe who with Eliakim and Joah met the Rabshakeh and was sent with the leading priests to the prophet Isaiah. Isaiah 22:15 rebukes Shebna as steward over the palace.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 18:37; 2 Kings 19:2
Tirhakah
King of Cush about whom Sennacherib was warned that he had set out to fight him.
Cited in the guide: 2 Kings 19:9; Isaiah 37:9
Places
Nineveh
Capital of the brutal Assyrian Empire. Jonah's reluctant mission brought it to repentance; Nahum later prophesied its fall, which came in 612 BC.
Cited in the guide: Jonah 3:3; Nahum 1:1; 2 Kings 19:36
Cross references (35)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 2 Kings 18:37; 1 Kings 21:27; 2 Chronicles 32:20–22; Isaiah 37:1–7; Genesis 37:34
- 2 Isaiah 1:1; Isaiah 2:1; Matthew 4:14; Isaiah 37:2–5; 2 Chronicles 26:22
- 3 Jeremiah 30:5–7; Isaiah 66:9; Hebrews 3:15–16; Isaiah 26:17–18; Hosea 13:13
- 4 2 Samuel 16:12; James 5:16–17; Romans 9:27; Ezekiel 36:37; Joshua 14:12
- 7 2 Kings 7:6; Isaiah 10:16–18; Isaiah 11:4; Obadiah 1; 2 Chronicles 32:21
- 8 2 Kings 18:14; Joshua 10:29; Isaiah 37:8–9; Joshua 12:15; Joshua 12:11
- 9 1 Samuel 23:27; 2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 37:9
- 10 2 Kings 18:5; 2 Kings 18:29–30; Isaiah 37:10–14; 2 Chronicles 32:15–19
- 11 Isaiah 10:8–11; 2 Chronicles 32:13–14; 2 Kings 19:17–18; 2 Kings 17:5–11
- 12 2 Kings 17:6; Ezekiel 27:23; Genesis 11:31; Isaiah 37:12; 1 Chronicles 5:26
- 13 2 Kings 18:34; 2 Kings 17:24; Isaiah 11:11; Isaiah 37:13–20; Numbers 13:21
- 14 Isaiah 37:14; Psalm 123:1–4; Psalm 91:1–2; Ezra 9:5; 1 Kings 8:28–30
- 15 Jeremiah 10:10–12; Isaiah 44:8; 2 Kings 5:15; Exodus 25:22; Daniel 4:34–35
- 16 Isaiah 37:17; Psalm 31:2; 2 Chronicles 6:40; 2 Kings 19:4; 1 Kings 8:29
- 17 Acts 4:27; 2 Kings 17:24; Isaiah 7:17–18; Jeremiah 26:15; Luke 22:59
- 18 Acts 17:29; Jeremiah 10:3–9; Isaiah 44:9–20; Jeremiah 10:14–16; 2 Samuel 5:21
- 19 Psalm 83:18; 1 Kings 8:43; Psalm 67:1–2; Exodus 9:15–16; Daniel 4:34–37
- 20 2 Kings 20:5; 2 Chronicles 32:20–21; Acts 10:31; Isaiah 65:24; Jeremiah 33:3
- 21 Lamentations 2:13; Job 16:4; Matthew 27:39; Jeremiah 14:17; Psalm 109:25
- 22 Isaiah 5:24; Psalm 71:22; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Jeremiah 51:5; Isaiah 30:15
- 23 2 Kings 18:17; Psalm 20:7; Isaiah 10:18; 2 Chronicles 32:17; Isaiah 10:14
- 24 1 Kings 20:10; Exodus 15:9; Isaiah 19:6; 2 Samuel 17:13; Daniel 4:30
- 25 Isaiah 45:7; Isaiah 37:26–27; Isaiah 10:5–6; Isaiah 46:10–11; Psalm 76:10
- 26 Jeremiah 50:36–37; 1 Peter 1:24; Jeremiah 51:30; Psalm 48:4–7; Psalm 129:6–8
- 27 Jeremiah 23:23–24; Isaiah 37:28–29; Psalm 121:8; Deuteronomy 28:6; Psalm 139:1–11
- 28 Ezekiel 29:4; 2 Kings 19:33; Ezekiel 38:4; Amos 4:2; Isaiah 30:28
- 29 Leviticus 25:20–22; 2 Kings 20:8–9; Exodus 3:12; Isaiah 37:30; Luke 2:12
- 30 Isaiah 27:6; 2 Kings 19:4; Isaiah 10:20–22; 2 Chronicles 32:22–23; Isaiah 1:9
- 31 Isaiah 9:7; Romans 11:5; John 2:17; Isaiah 10:20; Romans 9:27
- 32 Isaiah 8:7–10; 2 Samuel 20:15; Luke 19:43–44; Isaiah 10:24–25; Ezekiel 21:22
- 33 2 Kings 19:28; 2 Kings 19:36
- 34 1 Kings 11:12–13; 2 Kings 20:6; 1 Kings 15:4; Isaiah 31:5; Jeremiah 33:26
- 35 2 Chronicles 32:21–22; 2 Samuel 24:16; Exodus 12:29–30; Isaiah 37:36; 1 Thessalonians 5:2–3
- 36 Jonah 1:2; 2 Kings 19:7; 2 Kings 19:33; 2 Kings 19:28; Matthew 12:41
- 37 Genesis 8:4; Ezra 4:2; Jeremiah 51:27; 2 Kings 19:7; 2 Chronicles 32:21
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And to Hezekiah He saith, "I will defend this city, for mine own sake and for my servant David's sake." And to Solomon too He said, that for David's sake He rent not the kingdom during his lifetime.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… I cannot destroy them." Therefore He saith, "What, think ye that I cannot pray to my Father?" And again He speaks it humbly, in saying, "He will presently give me twelve legions of angels." For if one angel slew one hundred and eighty-five armed thousands, what need of twelve legions against a thousand men?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)