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2 Kings 19:36 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 36. 36So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
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Quick Meaning
This verse advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence: “So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “The Assyrian army dies and Sennacherib later falls.”
That night the camp is described as corpses
This verse is one part of that explanation in 2 Kings 19:35–37. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- 2 Kings 19:35–37
Read 2 Kings 19:36 with 19:35–37. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: The angel of the LORD strikes 185,000, Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, and his sons later kill him in Nisroch's temple.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Within “The Assyrian army dies and Sennacherib later falls,” 2 Kings 19:36 advances the thought unit through its next reported action, speech, or consequence through the wording “So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.” Its placement is governed by this reviewed relationship: The camp deaths and Sennacherib's return are presented as the result of the preceding oracle, while external evidence controls claims beyond the biblical report.
Read 2 Kings 19:35–37 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Kings 19:35–37 forms one scene or regnal notice: The angel of the LORD strikes 185,000, Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, and his sons later kill him in Nisroch's temple.
Verse 35. 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.
Verse 36. 36 So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.
Verse 37. 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.
What Remains True
Faithful interpretation protects the dignity, agency, safety, grief, and material needs of people whom leadership-centered readings can overlook. This unit tests that truth through the narrated movement: The angel of the LORD strikes 185,000, Sennacherib returns to Nineveh, and his sons later kill him in Nisroch's temple. In 2 Kings 19:36, the concrete line “So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh” keeps that truth accountable to narrated evidence.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read 2 Kings 19:35–37 — The Assyrian army dies and Sennacherib later fallsSources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Kings 19:35–37, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Kings
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, royal formulas, clause relationships, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Kgs.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 19:35–37
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: 2 Kings with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: A unit-bounded translation comparison plus only the lexical, grammatical, textual, historical, or older-English notes actually printed for these verses; silence is not treated as evidence.
Exact location: NET Bible 2 Kings PDF, printed pp. 657–659, translation and translator notes for 19:35–37
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