Isaiah 37:37

Good News Translation

Then the Assyrian emperor Sennacherib withdrew and returned to Nineveh.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and left. He returned home and lived in Nineveh.

Hebrew Names Version
So Sancheriv king of Ashshur departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

King James Version
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

English Standard Version
Then Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

New American Standard Bible
So Sennacherib the king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived in Nineveh.

New Century Version
So Sennacherib king of Assyria left and went back to Nineveh and stayed there.

Amplified Bible
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned and lived at Nineveh.

World English Bible
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and lived at Nineveh.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Saneherib king of Asshur departed, and went away and returned and dwelt at Nineueh.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Sennacherib king of Assyria set out and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

Berean Standard Bible
So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned home to Nineveh and stayed there.

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

Complete Jewish Bible
So Sancheriv king of Ashur left, went and returned to live in Ninveh.

Darby Translation
And Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and abode at Nineveh.

Easy-to-Read Version
So King Sennacherib of Assyria went back to Nineveh and stayed there.

George Lamsa Translation
So Sennacherib departed and went and returned and dwelt at Nineveh.

Lexham English Bible
Then Sennacherib king of Assyria left, went, and returned and lived at Nineveh.

Literal Translation
And Sennacherib, king of Assyria, set out, and went and returned; and he lived at Nineveh.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Sennacherib the kinge of the Assirians brake vp, and dwelt at Niniue.

American Standard Version
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Bible in Basic English
Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

King James Version (1611)
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned, and dwelt at Nineueh.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So Sennacherib the kyng of the Assyrians brake vp & dwelt at Niniue.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Sennacherim king of the Assyrians turned and departed, and dwelt in Nineve.

English Revised Version
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Sennacherib yede out of Jude, and wente awei. And Sennacherib, the kyng of Assiriens, turnede ayen, and dwellide in Nynyue.

Update Bible Version
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

New English Translation
So King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and went on his way. He went home and stayed in Nineveh.

New King James Version
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and went away, returned home, and remained at Nineveh.

New Living Translation
Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.

New Life Bible
So Sennacherib king of Assyria left and returned home, and lived at Nineveh.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Sennacherib the king of Assyria brake up, and went his way, and returned, - and remained in Nineveh.

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

Revised Standard Version
Then Sennach'erib king of Assyria departed, and went home and dwelt at Nin'eveh.

Young's Literal Translation
And journey, and go, and turn back doth Sennacherib king of Asshur, and dwelleth in Nineveh.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed and returned home and lived at Nineveh.

Contextual Overview

²¹ Then Isaiah sent a message telling King Hezekiah that in answer to the king's prayer ²² the Lord had said, "The city of Jerusalem laughs at you, Sennacherib, and makes fun of you. ²³ Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel. ²⁴ You sent your servants to boast to me that with all your chariots you had conquered the highest mountains of Lebanon. You boasted that there you cut down the tallest cedars and the finest cypress trees, and that you reached the deepest parts of the forests. ²⁵ You boasted that you dug wells and drank water in foreign lands, and that the feet of your soldiers tramped the Nile River dry. ²⁶ "Have you never heard that I planned all this long ago? And now I have carried it out. I gave you the power to turn fortified cities into piles of rubble. ²⁷ The people who lived there were powerless; they were frightened and stunned. They were like grass in a field or weeds growing on a roof when the hot east wind blasts them. ²⁸ "But I know everything about you, what you do and where you go. I know how you rage against me. ²⁹ I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came." ³⁰ Then Isaiah said to King Hezekiah, "Here is a sign of what will happen. This year and next you will have only wild grain to eat, but the following year you will be able to plant grain and harvest it, and plant vines and eat grapes.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sennacherib: Isaiah 37:7, Isaiah 37:29, Isaiah 31:9

Nineveh: Genesis 10:11, Genesis 10:12, Jonah 1:2, Jonah 3:3, Nahum 1:1, Matthew 12:41

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 19:37 - Nisroch 2 Chronicles 32:21 - the Lord Ezra 4:2 - Assur Isaiah 31:8 - he shall flee

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went, and returned,.... Being informed of the destruction of his army in this miraculous manner, he departed from the place where he was in all haste, fearing lest he himself should be destroyed in like manner; and having no forces to pursue his designs, or wherewith to make an attempt elsewhere, he made the best of his way at once into his own country, whither he returned with great shame and confusion:

and dwelt at Nineveh; the metropolis of his kingdom; see

Genesis 10:11.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

So Sennacherib departed - Probably with some portion of his army and retinue with him, for it is by no means probable that the whole army had been destroyed. In 2 Chronicles 32:21, it is said that the angel ‘cut off all the mighty men of valor, and the leaders and captains in the camp of the king of Assyria.’ His army was thus entirely disabled, and the loss of so large a part of it, and the consternation produced by their sudden destruction, would of course lead him to abandon the siege.

Went and returned - Went from before Jerusalem and returned to his own land.

And dwelt at Nineveh - How long he dwelt there is not certainly known. Berosus, the Chaldean, says it was ‘a little while’ (see Jos. Ant. x. 1. 5). Nineveh was on the Tigris, and was the capital of Assyria. For an account of its site, and its present situation, see the American Biblical Repository for Jan. 1837, pp. 139-159.