Sennacherib’s Invasion

¹³ In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Assyria’s King Sennacherib attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them.^{(A) 14} So King Hezekiah of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish:^(B) “I have done wrong;^(C) withdraw from me. Whatever you demand from me, I will pay.” The king of Assyria demanded eleven tons^[a] of silver and one ton^[b] of gold from King Hezekiah of Judah. ¹⁵ So Hezekiah gave him all the silver found in the Lord’s temple and in the treasuries of the king’s palace.

¹⁶ At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the Lord’s sanctuary and from the doorposts he had overlaid and gave it to the king of Assyria.^(D)

³¹ For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors, from Mount Zion.^(A) The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.^(B)

This is the Lord’s declaration.

Defeat and Death of Sennacherib

³⁵ That night 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!^{(E) 36} So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.^(F)

³⁷ One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech^(G) and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat.^(H) Then his son Esar-haddon^(I) became king in his place.