◄ Isaiah 37:37 ►
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Good News Translation
Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.

New Revised Standard Version
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria left, went home, and lived at Nineveh.

Contemporary English Version
After this, King Sennacherib went back to Assyria and lived in the city of Nineveh.

New American Bible
So Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, broke camp, departed, returned home, and stayed in Nineveh.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.

Sennacherib

Isaiah 37:7,29 Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country. . . .

Isaiah 31:9 And his strength shall pass away with dread, and his princes fleeing shall be afraid: the Lord hath said it, whose fire is in Sion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

Nineveh

Genesis 10:11,12 Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale. . . .

Jonah 1:2 Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Jonah 3:3 Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Nahum 1:1 The burden of Ninive. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elcesite.

Matthew 12:41 The men of Ninive shall rise in judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: because they did penance at the preaching of Jonas. And behold a greater than Jonas here.

Context
Jerusalem Delivered from the Assyrians
36And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses. 37And Sennacherib the king of the Assyrians went out and departed, and returned, and dwelt in Ninive.38And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the temple of Nesroch his god, that Adramelech and Sarasar his sons slew him with the sword: and they fled into the land of Ararat, and Asarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.…
Cross References
Genesis 10:11
Out of that land came forth Assur, and built Ninive, and the streets of the city, and Chale.

Isaiah 37:7
Behold, I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a message, and shall return to his own country, and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own country.

Jonah 1:2
Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amathi, saying:

Jonah 3:3
Arise, and go to Ninive, the great city: and preach in it the preaching that I bid thee.

Jonah 4:11
And the Lord said: Thou art grieved for the ivy, for which thou hast not laboured, nor made it to grow, which in one night came up, and in one night perished.

Micah 5:6
And this man shall be our peace, when the Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall set his foot in our houses: and we shall raise against him seven shepherds, and eight principal men.

Zephaniah 2:13
And he will stretch out his hand upon the north, and will destroy Assyria: and he will make the beautiful city a wilderness, and as a place not passable, and as a desert.

Isaiah 37:36
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