2 Malakiym 19

And it came to pass, when king Hizqiyahu heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

And he sent Elyaqim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Yashayahu the prophet the son of Amotz.

And they said unto him, "Thus saith Hizqiyahu, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth."

"It may be 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym will hear all the words of Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his adun hath sent to reproach the living Alahiym; and will reprove the words which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 thy Alahiym hath heard: wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left."

So the servants of king Hizqiyahu came to Yashayahu.

And Yashayahu said unto them, "Thus shall ye say to your adun, Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me."

"Behold, I will send a blast (ruach) upon him, and he shall hear a rumor, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land."

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Cush, "Behold, he is come out to fight against thee:" he sent messengers again unto Hizqiyahu, saying,

"Thus shall ye speak to Hizqiyahu king of Yahudah, saying, Let not thy Alahiym in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Yarushalayim shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria."

"Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?"

"Have the lo alahiym of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?"

"Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?"

And Hizqiyahu received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hizqiyahu went up into the house of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and spread it before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.

And Hizqiyahu prayed before 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and said, "O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of Yashar'al, which dwellest between the kerubim, thou art the Alahiym, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven and earth."

"𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, bow down thine ear, and hear: open, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, thine eyes, and see: and hear the words of Sancherib, which hath sent him to reproach the living Alahiym."

"Of a truth, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,"

"And have cast their lo alahiym into the fire: for they were no alahiym, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them."

"Now therefore, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 our Alahiym, I beseech thee, save thou us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that thou art 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym, even thou only."

Then Yashayahu the son of Amotz sent to Hizqiyahu, saying, "Thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Alahiym of Yashar'al, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sancherib king of Assyria I have heard."

"This is the word that 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Tziyon hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Yarushalayim hath shaken her head at thee."

"Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One (Qadosh) of Yashar'al."

"By thy messengers thou hast reproached Adunay, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Karmel."

"I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places."

"Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps."

"Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up."

"But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me."

"Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest."

"And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof."

"And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Yahudah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward."

"For out of Yarushalayim shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Tziyon: the zeal of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 Tzebaoth shall do this."

"Therefore thus saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it."

"By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄."

"For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant Dawid's sake."

And it came to pass that night, that the Malakh of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

So Sancherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his lo alahiym, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.