2 Kings 19:20-37
But I know where you are and when you come and go and how you rage against me. Because you rage against me and because your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.
This will be the sign for you, Hezekiah: “This year you will eat what grows by itself, and the second year what springs from that. But in the third year sow and reap, plant vineyards and eat their fruit. Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah will take root below and bear fruit above. For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant, and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.
That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek and Sharezer killed him with the sword, and they escaped to the land of Ararat. And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
My hook: God will lead them meekly captive as a person leads a bull or a horse. The Assyrians drove rings through the noses of captive kings.
The angle of the Lord went: It is not clear what happened, possibly an outbreak of bubonic plague.
Why?
God is the Lord, who can against the Lord Almighty!
Because Sennacherib said the blasphemy words to the Lord so the Lord put the plague in the camp of Assyria one night there were huge people who died.
The word of the Lord comes truth, out of everyone's mind and imagination. It shows the power of the Lord.
How?
Praise to the Lord Almighty! Only the Lord can deliver us from the dead and save us from shame. What I have to do is humble myself and honor the Holy Name of the Lord!
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