WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -Later, in II Kings 19:35, the angel kills 185, 000 Assyrian soldiers. In the Book of Enoch, angels of punishment and destruction belong to a group of angels called satans with Satan as their leader. First they tempt, then accuse and finally punish and torment, both wicked humans and fallen angels.

Detailed explanation-2: -God heard Hezekiah’s prayer and told him via Isaiah what His message would be to King Sennacherib. God then reveals exactly what will, and will not, happen to Sennacherib. Sennacherib would not be able to enter Jerusalem by any means. He will be humiliated and return to his home in Nineveh.

Detailed explanation-3: -Background. In 720 BCE, the Assyrian army captured Samaria, the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel, and carried away many Israelites into captivity. The virtual destruction of Israel left the southern kingdom, Judah, to fend for itself among warring Near-Eastern kingdoms.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Judahic version naturally cast the sparing of Jerusalem in a different light, as a proactive deed of the deity: Yahweh sent an angel who struck down 185, 000 Assyrians in a single night, and Sennacherib fled (2 Kings 19:35-37. Isaiah 37:33-37.