34. By the way he came he shall leave,never coming as far as this city,oracle of the Lord.
35. I will shield and save this cityfor my own sake and the sake of David my servant.”
36. Then the angel of the Lord went forth and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. Early the next morning, there they were, all those corpses, dead!
37. So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh.
38. When he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer struck him down with the sword and fled into the land of Ararat. His son Esarhaddon reigned in his place.