2 Chronicles 32:21

The Lord sends an angel who destroys the Assyrian army, and Sennacherib flees home only to be murdered by his own sons. God's deliverance is swift, complete, and humbling to the proud.

Cross-references · 28

• Isa 37:36–38Yahweh’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
• Ps 76:5Valiant men lie plundered, they have slept their last sleep. None of the men of war can lift their hands.
• 2 Sam 24:16When the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Yahweh relented of the disaster, and said to the angel who destroyed the people, “It is enough. Now withdraw your hand.” Yahweh’s angel was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
• Prov 16:18Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
• Prov 11:2When pride comes, then comes shame, but with humility comes wisdom.
• Isa 10:8For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
• Isa 37:21Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel says, ‘Because you have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria,
• Isa 10:33–34Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.
• Isa 33:10–12“Now I will arise,” says Yahweh; “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
• Isa 36:9How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
• Isa 17:12–14Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!
• Isa 10:16–19Therefore the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory a burning will be kindled like the burning of fire.
• Isa 30:30–33Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the descent of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, storm, and hailstones.
• Isa 42:8“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.
• Job 9:4God who is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who has hardened himself against him, and prospered?
• 2 Kgs 19:35–37That night, Yahweh’s angel went out, and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
• 2 Kgs 19:20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says ‘You have prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, and I have heard you.
• Ps 76:7You, even you, are to be feared. Who can stand in your sight when you are angry?
• Matt 13:49–50So will it be in the end of the world. The angels will come and separate the wicked from among the righteous,
• Rev 6:15–16The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
• Dan 6:22My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions’ mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, I have done no hurt.
• Acts 12:23Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Ps 18:50He gives great deliverance to his king, and shows loving kindness to his anointed, to David and to his offspring, forever more.
• Ps 76:12He will cut off the spirit of princes. He is feared by the kings of the earth.
• Ps 132:18I will clothe his enemies with shame, but on himself, his crown will be resplendent.”
• Dan 3:28Nebuchadnezzar spoke and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who has sent his angel, and delivered his servants who trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and have yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
• Rev 19:17–18I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in the sky, “Come! Be gathered together to the great supper of God,
• Isa 29:5–8But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

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