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

³⁵ That night the angel of Adonai went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of Ashur. Early the next morning, there they were, all of them, corpses — dead. ³⁶ So Sancheriv king of Ashur left, went and returned to live in Ninveh.