我必驚動他的心，他要聽見風聲就歸回本地。我必使他在那裏倒在刀下。』」 ……「所以，耶和華論亞述王如此說：『他必不得來到這城，也不在這裏射箭，不得拿盾牌到城前，也不築壘攻城。 他從哪條路來，必從那條路回去，必不得來到這城。這是耶和華說的。 ……當夜，耶和華的使者出去，在亞述營中殺了十八萬五千人。清早有人起來，一看，都是死屍了。 亞述王西拿基立就拔營回去，住在尼尼微。 一日在他的神尼斯洛廟裏叩拜，他兒子亞得米勒和沙利色用刀殺了他，就逃到亞拉臘地。他兒子以撒哈頓接續他作王。 列王紀下 19:7, 32-33, 35-37
Listen to me! I will put a spirit into the king of Assyria. Then, he will hear a certain report. When he hears it, he will return to his own country. And there, I will cause someone to kill him with a sword.” ’ ……This is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria. “He will not come into this city, and he will not shoot an arrow here. He will not stand in front of it with a shield. He will not build mountains of earth against it. He will return to Assyria by the way that he came, and he will not come into this city.” This is the promise of the Lord. That night, the Lord’s angel went and he killed 185,000 men in the army from Assyria. When people got up in the morning, they saw all those dead bodies! So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, took his army away. He returned to Assyria and he stayed there in Nineveh. ……After that time he was worshipping his god Nisroch in the house of Nisroch. Two of his sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed him with their swords. Then, they ran away into the region of Ararat. So Esarhaddon, who was another of his sons, ruled instead of Sennacherib. 2 Kings 19:7, 32-33, 35-37