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| 19:30–20:3
“This year you will eat only what grows up by itself,
and next year you will eat what springs up from that.
But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them;
you will tend vineyards and eat their fruit.
And you who are left in Judah,
who have escaped the ravages of the siege,
will put roots down in your own soil
and will grow up and flourish.
For a remnant of my people will spread out from Jerusalem,
a group of survivors from Mount Zion.
The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies
will make this happen!
“And this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria:
“His armies will not enter Jerusalem.
They will not even shoot an arrow at it.
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.”
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. Then King Sennach
erib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home
to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.
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.
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.”
When Hezekiah heard this, he turned his face to the wall and prayed
to the Lord, “Remember, O Lord, how I have always been faithful to