ADVENTURES OF HEZEKIAH & ISAIAH: SENNACHERIB'S OWN ACCOUNT
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Adventure Of Hezekiah And Isaiah
a) After Israel fell to the Assyrians, the city of Jerusalem, capital of the small kingdom of Judah, was vulnerable. The Assyrian military commander Sennacherib knew it, and laid siege to Jerusalem. Hezekiah king of Judah was distressed, and sought the help of Isaiah the prophet.
2. Sennacherib's Own Account
a) Sennacherib's inscription on a hexagonal clay prism.
"But as for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not bow to my yoke, forty-six of his strong walled towns, and innumerable smaller villages in their neighborhood, I besieged and conquered by stamping down earth ramps and then by bring up battering rams, by the assault of foot soldiers, by breaches, by tunneling and military engineering operations. I made to come out from them 200,150 people, young and old, male and female, innumerable horses, mules, donkeys, camels, large and small cattle, and counted them as spoils of war. He himself I shut up like a caged bird within Jerusalem his royal city. As for Hezekiah, the awful splendor of my lordship overwhelmed him."
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1. Adventure Of Hezekiah And Isaiaha) After Israel fell to the Assyrians, the city of Jerusalem, capital of the small kingdom of Judah, was vulnerable. The Assyrian military commander Sennacherib knew it, and laid siege to Jerusalem. Hezekiah king of Judah was distressed, and sought the help of Isaiah the prophet.
2. Sennacherib's Own Account
a) Sennacherib's inscription on a hexagonal clay prism.
"But as for Hezekiah, the Jew, who did not bow to my yoke, forty-six of his strong walled towns, and innumerable smaller villages in their neighborhood, I besieged and conquered by stamping down earth ramps and then by bring up battering rams, by the assault of foot soldiers, by breaches, by tunneling and military engineering operations. I made to come out from them 200,150 people, young and old, male and female, innumerable horses, mules, donkeys, camels, large and small cattle, and counted them as spoils of war. He himself I shut up like a caged bird within Jerusalem his royal city. As for Hezekiah, the awful splendor of my lordship overwhelmed him."
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