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II KINGS 19:23

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II KINGS 19:37

1 exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the HOLY 2 O N E of Israel. 23 By the messengers thou hast reproached the Lord, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of 3 Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel. 24 I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places. 25 Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps. 26 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up. 27 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me. 28 Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, there- fore 4 I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest. P 29 And this shall be a sign unto thee, 4 Ye shall 5 eat this year such things as grow of themselves, and in the second year that which springeth of the same; and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vine- yards, and eat the fruits thereof. P 30 4 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward. P 31 4 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD OF HOSTS shall do this. P 32 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, 4 He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come before it with shield, nor cast a bank against it. P 19:37 Esarhaddon reigned from c. 680 - 669 BC (Ezra 4:2). The promise of defeat to Assyria (Fulfilled - II Ki 19:35-36 - 701 BC)

33 4 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD. P 34 4 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. P The ANGEL OF THE L ORD slays 185,000 Assyrians (S/A - II Chro 32:21 & Isa 37:36-37) Date - 701 BC/AM 3299 35 And it came to pass that night, that the 6 ANGEL OF THE LORD went out, 7 and smote in the camp of the Assyrians 8 an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. PF READ NEXT - Psalm 76 King Sennacherib returns to Assyria 36 So 9 Sennacherib king of Assyria 7 departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. PF READ NEXT - II Chronicles 32:22-23 King Sennacherib is slain by his own sons (S/A - II Chro 32:21 & Isa 37:38) Date - 681 BC/AM 3319 37 10 And it came to pass, as he was wor- shipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons 11 smote him with the sword: and they es- caped into the land of Armenia. And Esar- haddon his son reigned in his stead. PF Historical Note - Assyrian history continued c. 680 BC with the New Kingdom Period in which Esar-haddon (c. 680-669 BC) assumed Assyria’s throne. The two most important achievements of Esar-haddon’s reign were the restoration of the city of Babylon, destroyed by his father Sennacherib in 689 BC, and the conquest of Egypt, As- syria’s competitor for world domination. This event took place around seventeen years after Manasseh ascended the throne over Judah in 697 BC. In 669 BC, Esar-haddon died and his son Ashurbanipal (669-626 BC) assumed the throne. A lover of learning and a protector of literature and art, Ashurbanipal built a great library at Nineveh. He was no doubt the king who placed Manasseh, king of Ju- dah, in chains, deporting him to Babylon (II Chro 33:10- 11). Assyrian history ended around 626 BC in which Ashurbanipal died and Assur-etil-ilani and Sin-sar- iskun assumed Assyria’s throne. Weak kings, they did not last long as Nabopolassar (625-605 BC), a Chaldean prince, attacked the ancient city of Babylon and wrested it from Assyrian control just as the prophet Nahum had predicted (Nahum 3:8-12).

1. Isa 10:13 2. Isa 47:4 & Hos 11:9 & Jn 17:11 Isa 49:7 & Psa 16:10 & Acts 2:27 & 13:35 & Mk 1:24 Isa 63:10-11 & Psa 51:11 & Eph 1:13 3. Isa 10:33,34 4. Fulfilled - II Ki 19:35-36 & II Chro 32:21 & Isa 37:36-37 (Assyria Defeated) 5. Lev 25:18-19 6. or, “Christ” - Gen 16:7 & 22:11 & 48:16 & Exo 3:2 & 14:19 & Jn 8:58 7. See - II Ki 19:7,28-34 & 20:6 & Isa 10:25-27, 33-34 & 30:27-33 & 33:1,3-6,10-13, 16-19,23 & 37:7, 29-35 & 38:6 & Hos 1:7 8. or, “185,000 soldiers” 9. Isa 31:5-9 & 33:19 10. that is, “20 years later in 681 BC” 11. See - II Ki 19:7 & Isa 37:7 (See - Nah 1:14)