Excerpt From My Dad's Book - How Miraculously God Saved Jerusalem From The Hands of Sennacherib.
This excerpt is from my dad's book, which I inherited later has some interesting notes on king Sennacherib of Assyria, his plans to conquer Jerusalem, his proud talk on restricting King Hezekiah within walls of Jerusalem, and his failed attempts.
Thought it as worth sharing.
Sennacherib wanted to invade Jerusalem, King Hezekiah was warned off by the enemy. Hezekiah and the whole Jerusalem prays to the Lord. And the Lord delivers them with a promise.
32 “Therefore this is what the Lord says concerning the king of Assyria: “‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow here. He will not come before it with shield or build a siege ramp against it.
33 By the way that he came he will return; he will not enter this city,
declares the Lord.
34 I will defend this city and save it, for my sake and for the sake of David my servant.’”
35 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!
(2Kings 34-35).
Not just about this miraculous act of God but also prophesied about King Sennacherib's death too in 2Chronicles 32:21. Wikipedia reads about his death as, "After the death of his eldest son and crown prince, Ashur-nadin-shumi, Sennacherib originally designated his second son Arda-Mulissu heir, who reigned for 10 years after Sennacherib returned back disgracefully from Jerusalem. He later replaced him with a younger son, Esarhaddon, in 684 BC, for unknown reasons. Sennacherib ignored Arda-Mulissu's repeated appeals to be reinstated as heir, and in 681 BC, Arda-Mulissu and his brother Nabu-shar-usur murdered Sennacherib, hoping to seize power for themselves."
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