When King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
Isaiah 37:37 - Revised Standard Version Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went home and dwelt at Nineveh. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned and dwelt at Nineveh. American Standard Version (1901) So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. Common English Bible So Assyria’s King Sennacherib left and went back to Nineveh, where he stayed. Catholic Public Domain Version And Sennacherib, the king of the Assyrians, departed and went away. And he returned and lived at Nineveh. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed; and returned and dwelt in Ninive. |
When King Hezekiah heard it, he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house of the Lord.
After these things and these acts of faithfulness Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.
“And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
His rock shall pass away in terror, and his officers desert the standard in panic,” says the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech which you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue which you cannot understand.
Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will turn you back on the way by which you came.’
Behold, I will put a spirit in him, so that he shall hear a rumor, and return to his own land; and I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.’ ”
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness has come up before me.”
So Jonah arose and went to Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceedingly great city, three days' journey in breadth.
And should not I pity Nineveh, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left, and also much cattle?”
they shall rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the drawn sword; and they shall deliver us from the Assyrian when he comes into our land and treads within our border.
An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
The men of Nineveh will arise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.