Isaiah 36 and 37
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah's reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria, attacked. . . . "This is what the great king the king of Assyria, says, 'On what are you basing this confidence of yours? . . . Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?'" . . . Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers and read it. Then he went up to the Temple of the Lord and spread it out before the Lord. . . . "It is true, O Lord, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone fashioned by human hands. Now, O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand so that all kingdoms on Earth may know that You alone, O Lord, are God."
So God did deliver them, in a miraculous way! Wow! God told Hezekiah, I will defend this city and save it, for My sake and for the sake of David my Servant.
Then: The angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning--there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
One day . . . his sons . . . cut him down with the sword. . . . And Esarhaddon his son succeeded him as king.
God will always defend His own reputation. Because this pagan king considered God to be no greater than the idols of the other countries, thereby blaspheming, lying about, Him, and because Hezekiah put his trust in God and prayed; then God pulled that king back home again and had him die there.
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
