OLD TESTAMENT

2 Kings 19:32

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“Therefore the LORD says concerning the king of Assyria, ‘He will not come to this city, nor shoot an arrow there. He will not come before it with shield, nor cast up a mound against it.

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Verse 32. About it, as was then the custom in besieging cities. Josephus and others suppose that Sennacherib’s army was destroyed before Jerusalem. But it seems more probable it fell on the road to Egypt, verse 7. The camp, which is still shewn, might be that of Rabsaces. Calmet. 18:17. Calmet.

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