SENNACHERIB

Passages on this topic · 51

• 2 Kings 18:17

  The king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army to Jerusalem. They went up and came to Jerusalem. When they had come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

• 2 Kings 18:18

  When they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebnah the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder came out to them.

• 2 Kings 18:19

  Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?

• 2 Kings 18:20

  You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

• 2 Kings 18:21

  Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand, and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

• 2 Kings 18:22

  But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God;’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?’

• 2 Kings 18:23

  Now therefore, please give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them.

• 2 Kings 18:24

  How 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?

• 2 Kings 18:25

  Have I now come up without Yahweh against this place to destroy it? Yahweh said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’”’”

• 2 Kings 18:26

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Shebnah, and Joah, said to Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in the Syrian language, for we understand it. Don’t speak with us in the Jews’ language, in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.”

• 2 Kings 18:27

  But Rabshakeh said to them, “Has my master sent me to your master and to you, to speak these words? Hasn’t he sent me to the men who sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own urine with you?”

• 2 Kings 18:28

  Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and spoke, saying, “Hear the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

• 2 Kings 18:29

  Thus says the king, ‘Don’t let Hezekiah deceive you; for he will not be able to deliver you out of his hand.

• 2 Kings 18:30

  Don’t let Hezekiah make you trust in Yahweh, saying, “Yahweh will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.”

• 2 Kings 18:31

  Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For thus says the king of Assyria, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

• 2 Kings 18:32

  until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive trees and of honey, that you may live, and not die. Don’t listen to Hezekiah, when he persuades you, saying, “Yahweh will deliver us.”

• 2 Kings 18:33

  Has any of the gods of the nations ever delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

• 2 Kings 18:34

  Where are the gods of Hamath, and of Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah? Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?

• 2 Kings 18:35

  Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Yahweh should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”

• 2 Kings 18:36

  But the people stayed quiet, and answered him not a word; for the king’s commandment was, “Don’t answer him.”

• 2 Kings 18:37

  Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, came with Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him Rabshakeh’s words.

• 2 Kings 19:8

  So Rabshakeh returned and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he had departed from Lachish.

• 2 Kings 19:35

  That 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 Kings 19:36

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

• 2 Kings 19:37

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.

• 2 Chronicles 32:1

  After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and intended to win them for himself.

• 2 Chronicles 32:2

  When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come, and that he was planning to fight against Jerusalem,

• 2 Chronicles 32:3

  he took counsel with his princes and his mighty men to stop the waters of the springs which were outside of the city, and they helped him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:4

  So, many people gathered together and they stopped all the springs and the brook that flowed through the middle of the land, saying, “Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find abundant water?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:5

  He took courage, built up all the wall that was broken down, and raised it up to the towers, with the other wall outside, and strengthened Millo in David’s city, and made weapons and shields in abundance.

• 2 Chronicles 32:6

  He set captains of war over the people, and gathered them together to him in the wide place at the gate of the city, and spoke encouragingly to them, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 32:7

  “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or dismayed because of the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude who is with him; for there is a greater one with us than with him.

• 2 Chronicles 32:8

  An arm of flesh is with him, but Yahweh our God is with us to help us and to fight our battles.” The people rested themselves on the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:9

  After this, Sennacherib king of Assyria sent his servants to Jerusalem, (now he was before Lachish, and all his power with him), to Hezekiah king of Judah, and to all Judah who were at Jerusalem, saying,

• 2 Chronicles 32:10

  Thus says Sennacherib king of Assyria, “In whom do you trust, that you remain under siege in Jerusalem?

• 2 Chronicles 32:11

  Doesn’t Hezekiah persuade you, to give you over to die by famine and by thirst, saying, ‘Yahweh our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?’

• 2 Chronicles 32:12

  Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’

• 2 Chronicles 32:13

  Don’t you know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands in any way able to deliver their land out of my hand?

• 2 Chronicles 32:14

  Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

• 2 Chronicles 32:15

  Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”

• 2 Chronicles 32:16

  His servants spoke yet more against Yahweh God, and against his servant Hezekiah.

• 2 Chronicles 32:17

  He also wrote letters insulting Yahweh, the God of Israel, and speaking against him, saying, “As the gods of the nations of the lands, which have not delivered their people out of my hand, so shall the God of Hezekiah not deliver his people out of my hand.”

• 2 Chronicles 32:18

  They called out with a loud voice in the Jews’ language to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, to frighten them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

• 2 Chronicles 32:19

  They spoke of the God of Jerusalem as of the gods of the peoples of the earth, which are the work of men’s hands.

• 2 Chronicles 32:20

  Hezekiah the king and Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz, prayed because of this, and cried to heaven.

• 2 Chronicles 32:21

  Yahweh sent an angel, who cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains, in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned with shame of face to his own land. When he had come into the house of his god, those who came out of his own bowels killed him there with the sword.

• 2 Chronicles 32:22

  Thus Yahweh saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of Sennacherib the king of Assyria and from the hand of all others, and guided them on every side.

• 2 Chronicles 32:23

  Many brought gifts to Yahweh to Jerusalem, and precious things to Hezekiah king of Judah; so that he was exalted in the sight of all nations from then on.

• Isaiah 37:36

  Yahweh’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.

• Isaiah 37:37

  So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went away, returned to Nineveh, and stayed there.

• Isaiah 37:38

  As he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat. Esar Haddon his son reigned in his place.