31. For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant and deliverance out of Mount Zion; the zeal of the Lord of the hosts shall do this.
32. Therefore, thus saith the Lord concerning the king of Assyria, He shall not come into this city nor shoot an arrow there nor come before it with shield nor cast a bank against it.
33. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not enter into this city, saith the Lord.
34. For I will defend this city, to save it, for my own sake and for my slave David’s sake.
35. And it came to pass that night that the angel of the Lord went out and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, the corpses of the dead.
36. So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.
37. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch, his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer, his sons, smote him with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon, his son, reigned in his stead.