2 Kings 19:35-37·~1 min
Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians
The angel of the LORD strikes the Assyrian camp by night, Sennacherib withdraws to Nineveh, and in time his sons kill him there while he worships, after which Esar-haddon succeeds him.
A35nd that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! 36So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there. 37One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place.
Section summaryWhat the LORD says happens at once. In a single night the Assyrian army is struck down, Sennacherib retreats to Nineveh, and later he dies there by the sword in the house of his own god.
Role in the chapterThis closing section turns prophecy into event. It resolves the chapter with swift divine action and completes the earlier word that Sennacherib would return home and fall there.