1 Quæ cum audisset Ezechias rex, scidit vestimenta sua, et opertus est sacco, ingressusque est domum Domini. 2 Et misit Eliacim præpositum domus, et Sobnam scribam, et senes de sacerdotibus, opertos saccis, ad Isaiam prophetam filium Amos. 3 Qui dixerunt: Hæc dicit Ezechias: Dies tribulationis, et increpationis, et blasphemiæ dies iste: venerunt filii usque ad partum, et vires non habet parturiens. 4 Si forte audiat Dominus Deus tuus universa verba Rabsacis, quem misit rex Assyriorum dominus suus ut exprobraret Deum viventem et argueret verbis, quæ audivit Dominus Deus tuus: et fac orationem pro reliquiis quæ repertæ sunt. 5 Venerunt ergo servi regis Ezechiæ ad Isaiam. 6 Dixitque eis Isaias: Hæc dicetis domino vestro: Hæc dicit Dominus: Noli timere a facie sermonum quos audisti, quibus blasphemaverunt pueri regis Assyriorum me. 7 Ecce ego immittam ei spiritum, et audiet nuntium, et revertetur in terram suam, et dejiciam eum gladio in terra sua. 8 Reversus est ergo Rabsaces, et invenit regem Assyriorum expugnantem Lobnam: audierat enim quod recessisset de Lachis. 9 Cumque audisset de Tharaca rege Æthiopiæ, dicentes: Ecce egressus est ut pugnet adversum te: et iret contra eum, misit nuntios ad Ezechiam, dicens: 10 Hæc dicite Ezechiæ regi Juda: Non te seducat Deus tuus in quo habes fiduciam, neque dicas: Non tradetur Jerusalem in manus regis Assyriorum. 11 Tu enim ipse audisti quæ fecerunt reges Assyriorum universis terris, quomodo vastaverunt eas: num ergo solus poteris liberari? 12 Numquid liberaverunt dii gentium singulos quos vastaverunt patres mei, Gozan videlicet, et Haran, et Reseph, et filios Eden qui erant in Thelassar? 13 ubi est rex Emath, et rex Arphad, et rex civitatis Sepharvaim, Ana, et Ava? 14 Itaque cum accepisset Ezechias litteras de manu nuntiorum, et legisset eas, ascendit in domum Domini, et expandit eas coram Domino, 15 et oravit in conspectu ejus, dicens: Domine Deus Israël, qui sedes super cherubim, tu es Deus solus regum omnium terræ: tu fecisti cælum et terram. 16 Inclina aurem tuam, et audi: aperi, Domine, oculos tuos, et vide: audi omnia verba Sennacherib, qui misit ut exprobraret nobis Deum viventem. 17 Vere, Domine, dissipaverunt reges Assyriorum gentes, et terras omnium. 18 Et miserunt deos eorum in ignem: non enim erant dii, sed opera manuum hominum, ex ligno et lapide: et perdiderunt eos. 19 Nunc igitur Domine Deus noster, salvos nos fac de manu ejus, ut sciant omnia regna terræ quia tu es Dominus Deus solus. 20 Misit autem Isaias filius Amos ad Ezechiam, dicens: Hæc dicit Dominus Deus Israël: Quæ deprecatus es me super Sennacherib rege Assyriorum, audivi. 21 Iste est sermo, quem locutus est Dominus de eo: [Sprevit te, et subsannavit te, virgo filia Sion: post tergum tuum caput movit, filia Jerusalem. 22 Cui exprobrasti, et quem blasphemasti? contra quem exaltasti vocem tuam, et elevasti in excelsum oculos tuos? Contra Sanctum Israël. 23 Per manum servorum tuorum exprobrasti Domino, et dixisti: In multitudine curruum meorum ascendi excelsa montium in summitate Libani, et succidi sublimes cedros ejus, et electas abietes illius. Et ingressus sum usque ad terminos ejus, et saltum Carmeli ejus 24 ego succidi. Et bibi aquas alienas, et siccavi vestigiis pedum meorum omnes aquas clausas. 25 Numquid non audisti quid ab initio fecerim? ex diebus antiquis plasmavi illud, et nunc adduxi: eruntque in ruinam collium pugnantium civitates munitæ. 26 Et qui sedent in eis, humiles manu, contremuerunt et confusi sunt: facti sunt velut fœnum agri, et virens herba tectorum, quæ arefacta est antequam veniret ad maturitatem. 27 Habitaculum tuum, et egressum tuum, et introitum tuum, et viam tuam ego præscivi, et furorem tuum contra me. 28 Insanisti in me, et superbia tua ascendit in aures meas: ponam itaque circulum in naribus tuis, et camum in labiis tuis, et reducam te in viam per quam venisti. 29 Tibi autem, Ezechia, hoc erit signum: comede hoc anno quæ repereris: in secundo autem anno, quæ sponte nascuntur: porro in tertio anno seminate et metite: plantate vineas, et comedite fructum earum. 30 Et quodcumque reliquum fuerit de domo Juda, mittet radicem deorsum, et faciet fructum sursum. 31 De Jerusalem quippe egredientur reliquiæ, et quod salvetur de monte Sion: zelus Domini exercituum faciet hoc. 32 Quam ob rem hæc dicit Dominus de rege Assyriorum: Non ingredietur urbem hanc, nec mittet in eam sagittam, nec occupabit eam clypeus, nec circumdabit eam munitio. 33 Per viam qua venit, revertetur: et civitatem hanc non ingredietur, dicit Dominus. 34 Protegamque urbem hanc, et salvabo eam propter me, et propter David servum meum.] 35 Factum est igitur in nocte illa, venit angelus Domini, et percussit in castris Assyriorum centum octoginta quinque millia. Cumque diluculo surrexisset, vidit omnia corpora mortuorum: et recedens abiit, 36 et reversus est Sennacherib rex Assyriorum, et mansit in Ninive. 37 Cumque adoraret in templo Nesroch deum suum, Adramelech et Sarasar filii ejus percusserunt eum gladio, fugeruntque in terram Armeniorum: et regnavit Asarhaddon filius ejus pro eo.
2 Kings 19 Clementine Vulgate
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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 (36)
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
- 6 2 Kings 18:35; 2 Kings 18:17; Isaiah 37:6–38; 2 Chronicles 20:15; Deuteronomy 20:1
- 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.
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… 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?
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