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JULY 22
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They will not march outside its gates with their shields
nor build banks of earth against its walls.
The king will return to his own country
by the same road on which he came.
He will not enter this city,’
says the LORD.
‘For my own honor and for the sake of my servant David,
I will defend this city and protect it.’”
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That night the angel of the LORD went out to the Assyrian camp and killed
185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians* woke up the next
morning, they found corpses everywhere. 37 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria
broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.
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One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons
Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped
to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of
Assyria.
2 Chronicles 32:20-23
Then King Hezekiah and the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz cried out in prayer to
God in heaven. 21And the LORD sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army
with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home
in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of
his own sons killed him there with a sword.
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That is how the LORD rescued Hezekiah and the people of Jerusalem from
King Sennacherib of Assyria and from all the others who threatened them.
So there was peace throughout the land. 23 From then on King Hezekiah became
highly respected among all the surrounding nations, and many gifts for the
LORD arrived at Jerusalem, with valuable presents for King Hezekiah, too.
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JULY 22
Hezekiah’s Sickness and Recovery / 2 Kings 20:1-11 / ca. 700 BC
About that time Hezekiah became deathly ill, and the prophet Isaiah son of
Amoz went to visit him. He gave the king this message: “ This is what the LORD
says: Set your affairs in order, for you are going to die. You will not recover from
this illness.”
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When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed to the
LORD, 3 “Remember, O LORD, how I have always been faithful to you and have
served you single-mindedly, always doing what pleases you.” Then he broke
down and wept bitterly.
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But before Isaiah had left the middle courtyard,* this message came to him
from the LORD: 5 “Go back to Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Tell him, ‘ This is
what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: I have heard your prayer
and seen your tears. I will heal you, and three days from now you will get out of
bed and go to the Temple of the LORD. 6I will add fifteen years to your life, and I
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37:36 Hebrew When they.
reads the middle of the city.
20:4 As in Greek version and an alternate reading in the Masoretic Text; the other alternate
