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2 Kings 19:37

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

One day, while he was worshipping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech  and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat.  Then his son Esar-haddon  became king in his place.

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they approached Zerubbabel and the family heads and said to them, ‘Let us build with you, for we also worship your God and have been sacrificing to him  since the time King Esar-haddon of Assyria brought us here.’


The ark came to rest in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the mountains of Ararat.


Raise a signal flag  in the land; blow a ram’s horn among the nations; set apart the nations against her. Summon kingdoms against her – Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a marshal against her; bring up horses like a swarm  of locusts.


I am about to put a spirit in him, and he will hear a rumour and return to his own land,  where I will cause him to fall by the sword.” ’


and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every valiant warrior, leader, and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria returned in disgrace to his land. He went to the temple of his god, and there some of his own children struck him down with the sword.


They spoke against the God of Jerusalem as they had spoken against the gods of the peoples of the earth, which were made by human hands.


Who among all the gods of these nations that my predecessors completely destroyed was able to rescue his people from my power, that your God should be able to deliver you from my power?


‘Say this to King Hezekiah of Judah: “Don’t let your God, on whom you rely,  deceive you by promising that Jerusalem will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.


Don’t let Hezekiah persuade you to rely on the Lord by saying, ‘Certainly the Lord will rescue us! This city will not be handed over to the king of Assyria.’ ”


Hezekiah relied on the Lord God of Israel;  not one of the kings of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.


But their ‘rock’ is not like our Rock, as even our enemies concede.


the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire  to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.


Lord, it is true that the kings of Assyria have devastated the nations and their lands.


For a remnant will go out from Jerusalem, and survivors, from Mount Zion.  The zeal of the Lord of Armies will accomplish this.





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