30. And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward and bear fruit upward.
31. For out of Jerusalem shall go a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord will do this.
32. “Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city or shoot an arrow there, or come before it with a shield or cast up a siege mound against it.
33. By the way that he came, by the same he shall return, and he shall not come into this city, declares the Lord.
34. For I will defend this city to save it, for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David.”
35. And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
36. Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went home and lived at Nineveh.
37. And as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, struck him down with the sword and escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his place.