2 Kings 19:3-7

Do not fear when trouble comes, and it will, seek the Lord in all things and rest knowing that all things are under His control!

The Hebrew phrase translated here indicates not only the great danger of the present Assyrian crisis, but the distress that Hezekiah felt. Hezekiah realized that the Lord’s corrective chastisement had come upon Judah and Jerusalem. The closing proverb using the imagery of birth stresses the need for God’s intervening strength if Jerusalem were to be delivered.

^{Jeremiah 46:27} “But do not fear, O My servant Jacob, 

And do not be dismayed, O Israel! 

For behold, I will save you from afar, 

And your offspring from the land of their captivity;

2 Kings 19:3-7

And they said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah: ‘This day is a day of trouble, and rebuke, and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth. ⁴ It may be that the Lord your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to reproach the living God, and will rebuke the words which the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.’ ” 

⁵ So the servants of King Hezekiah came to Isaiah. ⁶ And Isaiah said to them, “Thus you shall say to your master, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Do not be afraid of the words which you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me. ⁷ Surely I will send a spirit upon him, and he shall hear a rumor and return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” ’ ”