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35 ‘For I will defend this city to save it, for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”

Assyrians Destroyed

36 And the [a]angel of the Lord went out and [b]struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when the [surviving] men got up early the next morning, they saw all the dead.(A) 37 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned and lived at Nineveh.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 37:36 See note Gen 16:7.
  2. Isaiah 37:36 This is the fulfillment of the prophecy made in Is 31:8, 9. See also 10:33, 34; 14:25; 17:14; 30:31.

35 “I will defend(A) this city and save it,
    for my sake(B) and for the sake of David(C) my servant!”

36 Then the angel(D) of the Lord went out and put to death(E) a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian(F) camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! 37 So Sennacherib(G) king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh(H) and stayed there.

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