¹³ In the fourteenth year^(A) of King Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah^(B) and captured them.

³³ Has the god^(A) of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria? ³⁴ Where are the gods of Hamath^(B) and Arpad?^(C) Where are the gods of Sepharvaim, Hena and Ivvah? Have they rescued Samaria from my hand? ³⁵ Who of all the gods of these countries has been able to save his land from me? How then can the Lord deliver Jerusalem from my hand?”^(D)

³⁵ That night the angel of the Lord^(A) went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!^{(B) 36} So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew.^(C) He returned to Nineveh^(D) and stayed there.

³⁷ One day, while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisrok, his sons Adrammelek^(E) and Sharezer killed him with the sword,^(F) and they escaped to the land of Ararat.^(G) And Esarhaddon^(H) his son succeeded him as king.