32. I promise that the king of Assyria won't get into Jerusalem, or shoot an arrow into the city, or even surround it and prepare to attack.
33. As surely as I am the Lord, he will return by the way he came and will never enter Jerusalem.
34. I will protect it for myself and for my servant David.
35. That same night the Lord sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand 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 worshipping 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.