33. “Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city,nor shoot an arrow there,nor come before it with shields,nor build a siege ramp against it.
34. By the way that he came, by the same shall he return,and shall not come into this city,says the Lord.
35. For I will defend this city to save itfor My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.”
36. Then the angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians. When others woke up early in the morning, these were all dead bodies.
37. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived in Nineveh.
38. It came to pass as he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok, his god, that Adrammelek and Sharezer, his sons, struck him with the sword, and they escaped into the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.