Sennacherib

Divided Kingdom Mesopotamia · H5576
Old Testament

Sennacherib and Sargon were Assyrian kings who led military campaigns against Judah during the reigns of King Hezekiah and King Ahaz, respectively.

Sennacherib was the Assyrian emperor who invaded Judah in 701 BC, capturing forty-six fortified cities and besieging Jerusalem during the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18–19; Isaiah 36–37; 2 Chronicles 32). His threat to Jerusalem prompted Hezekiah's prayer in the temple and the prophet Isaiah's oracle of deliverance, culminating in the miraculous destruction of 185,000 Assyrian soldiers and Sennacherib's withdrawal to Nineveh. His assassination by two of his sons while worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy (2 Kings 19:37) and is corroborated by Babylonian and Assyrian historical records.

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