2 Kings 19:35-37

Contemporary English Version

The Death of King Sennacherib

(Isaiah 37.36-38)

^35 (A) That same night the Lord sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed 185,000 of them. And so the next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies. ³⁶ After this King Sennacherib went back to Assyria and lived in the city of Nineveh. ³⁷ One day he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, when his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. They escaped to the land of Ararat, and his son Esarhaddon became king.^[a]