2 KINGS 19:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.”
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria departed and went home, and lived at Nineveh — Sennacherib's departure from Judea and return to Nineveh fulfills the oracle's promise: 'by the way that he came, by the same he shall return.' The phrase 'departed and went home' indicates not military strategic repositioning but retreat. The note that he 'lived at Nineveh' emphasizes his survival: the oracle did not promise Sennacherib's death, only his retreat and the deliverance of Jerusalem.
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