34. As surely as I am the Lord, he will return by the way he came and will never enter Jerusalem.
35. I will protect it for the sake of my own honour and because of the promise I made to my servant David.
36. The Lord sent an angel to the camp of the Assyrians, and he killed one hundred and eighty-five thousand of them all in one night. The next morning, the camp was full of dead bodies.
37. After this, King Sennacherib went back to Assyria and lived in the city of Nineveh.
38. 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.