34. I will protect this city and save it. I will do this for myself and for my servant David.’”
35. That night the angel of the Lord went out and killed 185,000 people in the Assyrian camp. When the others got up in the morning, they saw all the dead bodies.
36. So King Sennacherib of Assyria left and went back to Nineveh where he stayed.
37. One day Sennacherib was in the temple of his god Nisroch, worshiping him. His sons Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with a sword and ran away to Ararat. So his son Esarhaddon became the new king of Assyria.