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35 I will protect this city and save it
    for my own sake
    and for the sake of my servant David.”

36 Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When morning dawned, the ground was covered with corpses.[a] 37 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned home to Nineveh.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:36 In the effort to emphasize the breadth of God’s triumph, the writer is not afraid to exaggerate numbers.