35 (A)Then it happened that night that the angel of the Lord went out and struck 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians; and when [a]men rose early in the morning, behold, all of them were [b]dead. 36 So (B)Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home, and lived at (C)Nineveh. 37 It came about as he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his god, that [c](D)Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with the sword; and they escaped into (E)the land of Ararat. And (F)Esarhaddon his son became king in his place.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 19:35 Lit they
  2. 2 Kings 19:35 Lit dead bodies
  3. 2 Kings 19:37 Some ancient mss read Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him