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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Sennacherib (Emperor living at the time of Divided Monarchy)
He besieged Jerusalem in Hezekiah's reign and boasted in his own inscriptions that he shut Hezekiah up like a bird in a cage. He never claims he took the city.
He besieged Jerusalem in Hezekiah's reign and boasted in his own inscriptions that he shut Hezekiah up like a bird in a cage. He never claims he took the city.
Sennacherib was the Assyrian king who besieged Jerusalem during Hezekiah's reign, boasting in his own inscriptions of shutting Hezekiah up like a bird in a cage, though notably never claiming to have actually captured the city, matching the biblical account of a siege that broke overnight after Hezekiah's prayer and Isaiah's promise of deliverance.
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- 2 Kings 18:13
- 2 Kings 19:16
- 2 Kings 19:20
- 2 Kings 19:36
- 2 Chronicles 32:1
- 2 Chronicles 32:2
- 2 Chronicles 32:9
- 2 Chronicles 32:10
- 2 Chronicles 32:22
- Isaiah 36:1
- Isaiah 37:17
- Isaiah 37:21
- Isaiah 37:37
