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What happened during Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem?
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From that point on though there are different accounts as to what really happened
The Book of Kings in the Hebrew Bible
Such accounts are the Book of Kings from the Hebrew Bible and the Sennacherib Prism.
Apparently, in the Hebrew bible, it says that an angel ascended down from Heaven and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. The next day, all that was left at the Assyrian camp was corpses. The king of Assyria, Sennacherib, broke camp and went back to Nineveh.
Sennacherib Prism
tells of the great feats of the Assyrian king and how his siege of Jerusalem was just another piece in the expansion of his empire. Nowhere within this Assyrian account does the author mention thousands of soldiers were killed or retreated. Sennacherib made Hezekiah a prisoner and made him pay 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver.
What happened during Sennacherib’s siege of Jerusalem?
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By Mariah Gomez, Dakota Imes, Mariyah Summers, and Aariah Suarez
In the year 701 BCE, an event began to unfold that would puzzle historians for centuries to come. King Hezekiah of Judah allied himself with the Egyptians and rebelled against the new Assyrian king Sennacherib. This action ignited Assyria’s wrath, and soon Sennacherib's army was sent on the offensive.