8So the Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria fighting against Libnah (a fortified city in Judah); for he had heard that the king had departed from Lachish.

9And when King Sennacherib heard the report concerning Tirhakah, king of Ethiopia (Cush), “He has come out to fight against you”, the king sent messengers again to Hezekiah, to say, 10“Thus shall you say to Hezekiah, king of Judah, ‘Do not let your God in Whom you trust deceive you by saying, ‘Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria’. 11Look, you have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, utterly destroying them. And shall you be delivered? 12Have the gods of the other nations saved them that my fathers have destroyed - Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Thelassar? 13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?”

14And Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up into the temple of the LORD, and spread it before the LORD. 15And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, “O LORD God of Israel, Who dwells between the cherubim, You are the God, even You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; You have made heaven and earth. 16LORD, bend down Your ear, and hear; open, LORD, Your eyes, and see, and hear the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to reproach the living God. 17Of a truth, LORD, the kings of Assyria have indeed destroyed nations and their lands, 18And have thrown their gods into the fire; for they were no real gods, but the work of men's hands - wood and stone. Therefore, they have destroyed them. 19Now, therefore, O LORD our God, I beseech You, save You us from Sennacherib, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You, You only, are the LORD God.”

20Then Isaiah, the son of Amoz, sent this message to Hezekiah, “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, ‘That which you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib, king of Assyria, I have heard. 21This is the word that the LORD has spoken regarding him: ‘The virgin the daughter of Zion, despises you, and mocks you (Sennacherib); the daughter of Jerusalem tosses her head at you. 22Whom have you (Sennacherib) insulted and blasphemed? And against Whom have you exalted your voice, and lifted your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel. 23By your messengers (the Rabshakeh and his associates) you have mocked and offended the LORD, and you have said, ‘With my many chariots I (Sennacherib, king of Assyria) have ascended the height of the mountains, to the heights of Lebanon, and will cut down its tallest cedars; and its choice fir trees; and I will enter its most remote borders, and into the forest of its Carmel. 24I have dug wells and drunk in many foreign lands, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places’. 25Have you not heard long ago how I (the LORD) have ordained it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? And now have I brought it to pass, that you should be able to turn fortified cities into ruinous heaps. 26That is why their inhabitants were of so little power, dismayed and confounded; they were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass sprouting on the housetops, and like grain blighted before it is grown up. 27But I know where you are. And when you come and go; and how you have raged against Me. 28Because your rage against Me and your insolence has come up into My ears, therefore I will put My hook in your nose, and My bridle in your lips, and I will turn you back by the way that you came.”

29“And this shall be a sign to you (Hezekiah), you shall eat this year such things as grow by themselves, and in the second year what springs of the same; but in the third year, sow you, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruits.

30And the remnant of the house of Judah shall yet again put its roots down, and bear fruit above. 31For out of Jerusalem shall a remnant go forth, and they who escape out of Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.

32Therefore, thus says the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor march outside of it with shield, nor cast a mound against it. 33By He shall return by the way that he came, and shall not enter this city’, says the LORD. 34For I will defend this city and save it, for My Own sake, and for My servant David's sake.”

35And that night, the Angel of the LORD went out, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred eighty-five thousand; and when the others arose early in the morning, behold, there were all dead bodies. 36So Sennacherib, king of Assyria, departed, and returned to Nineveh, and stayed there. 37And as he was worshipping in the house of his god, Nisroch, his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, attacked (and killed) Sennacherib with the sword; and they escaped into the land of Ararat (Armenia). Then Esar-haddon, another of his sons, reigned in his stead.