Isaiah 37:35

God promised king David that there would always be some member of his family to lead God’s people (see 2 Samuel 7:16).

• One of the titles (names) of Jesus the *Messiah was ‘Son of David’ (see Isaiah 9:6-7). This name appears often in the *New Testament (see Matthew 12:23).

God punishes Sennacherib

v36 Then an agent of the *Lord went to the camp of the *Assyrian army and killed 185 000 soldiers. Next morning the camp was full of dead bodies. v37 Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left Judah. He returned to his own country. He lived at Nineveh the capital of Assyria. v38 One day Sennacherib was in the *temple of his god called Nisroch. Two of Sennacherib’s sons, Adrammelech and Sharezer, killed their father with their swords. Then they escaped to the country called Ararat. Another of Sennacherib’s sons, Esarhaddon, became king of Assyria in place of his dead father. Verse 36

The *Lord’s agent was probably a terrible disease that spread from person to person in a very few hours (see 2 Samuel 24:15).