³⁴ For I will defend this city, to save it, for Mine Own sake, and for the sake of Dovid Avdi.

³⁵ And it came to pass that night, that the Malach Hashem went forth, and struck down in the Machaneh Ashur a hundred and fourscore and five elef; and when they arose early in the boker, hinei, they were all pegarim mesim (dead corpses).

³⁶ So Sancheriv Melech Ashur departed, and went and returned, and dwelt in Nineveh.