Isaiah 37 tells us about how King Hezekiah seeking God's help through the prophet Isaiah after the King of Assyria had lashed out "to ridicule the living God". Isaiah told Hezekiah not to fear the blasphemy because God had things under control and that the king of Assyria would go home and there be killed. Hezekiah placed Sennacherib's insulting letter before God and prayed: "O Lord our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O Lord, are God"! Then Isaiah spoke the words of the Lord: "You have lifted your eyes in pride against the Holy One of Israel... you have heaped insults on the Lord... you rage against me but I will put my hook in your nose... for out of Jerusalem will come a remnant... he (Sennacherib) will not enter this city... then the angel of the Lord killed 185,000 Assyrians... and when Sennacherib was in the temple of his god his sons came and killed him".
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