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2 Kings 19:36

SennacheribAssyriaNineveh

34 For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

35 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.

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

37 And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esar-haddon his son reigned in his stead.

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BSB
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
KJV
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
WEB
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, went home, and lived at Nineveh.
ASV
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
DARBY
And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.
BLB
And Sennacherib king of Assyria pulled out and went away, and he returned and dwelt in Nineveh.
ÅB
Da brøt kongen i Assyria Sankerib opp og dro bort og vendte tilbake; og siden holdt han seg i ro i Ninive.
OTB
Så dro Sankerib, kongen av Assyria, bort og vendte hjem, og bodde i Ninive.
B1930
Da brøt kongen i Assyria Sankerib op og drog bort og vendte tilbake; og siden holdt han sig i ro i Ninive.

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  • Jonah 1:2

    Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.

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  • 2 Kings 19:7

    Behold, I will send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

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  • 2 Kings 19:33

    By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not come into this city, saith the LORD.

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  • 2 Kings 19:28

    Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

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  • Matthew 12:41

    The men of Nineveh shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they repented at the preaching of Jonas; and, behold, a greater than Jonas is here.

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  • Nahum 2:8

    But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

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  • Genesis 10:11–12

    Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah,

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  • Jonah 3:2–10

    Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

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