Chapter 37: Yeshayahu prophesies to Chizkiyah of the fall of Sancheirev
- Mourning the dreadful words of Ravshaka: When King Chizkiyah heard the words of Ravshaka he tore his clothing and covered himself in sackcloth and came to pray in the house of G-d.
- Consulting with Yeshayahu the prophet: King Chizkiyah sent Eliyakim, Shevna, and the elders of the priests to consult with Yeshayahu the prophet, while they were wearing sackcloth. The emissaries told Yeshayahu that King Chizkiyah has said that he has come to conquest Jerusalem and spoke words of blasphemy and we the Jewish people have come to a point of distress and loss of hope. Perhaps G-d will listen to the blasphemous words of Ravshaka and take vengeance against him and save the Jewish people which are left of Jerusalem.
- The response of Yeshayahu-A prophecy of death for Sancheirev: Yeshayahu the prophet responded to them as follows: Go tell your master that the following are the words of G-d, “Do not fear the words that you heard in which the young lads of the king of Assyria blasphemed me. I will enter into king Sancheirev a desire to return home on the basis of a rumor that the king of Kush desires to wage war against him. He will return to his land Assyria to wage the war and there I will make him fall by the sword.
- Ravshaka finds Sancheirev waging war against Livna: Ravshaka returned to Sancheirev to inform him of the lack of response of King Chizkiyah and he found the king of Assyria waging a war against the Judean town of Livna, as he had heard that the king had traveled from the town of Lakish to wage war against the town of Livna.
- Sancheirev returns to Assyria: Sancheirev received word that Tirhaka the king of Kush was planning to wage war against him, so he sent emissaries to Chizkiyah with the following message, “Do not trust your G-d that He will save you from the conquest of Jerusalem by the king of Assyria. You have heard all that the king of Assyria has done to the other lands and how he has conquered them. Do you really think you will be saved? Did their deity manage to save them from my hands? Where are all the kings of these lands that I conquered, have I not abdicated them and sent them into exile?
- Chizkiyah spreads open the letters from Sancheirev in front of G-d: Chizkiyah took the books that he received from the messengers of Sancheirev which contained his messages demanding capitulation and brought them to the house of G-d where he spread them open before G-d.
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