File:Sennacherib Prism.svg
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illustration of ancient artifact
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English: In 701 BCE, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, marched on Judah to conquer King Hezekiah. According to 2 Kings 18-19, Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem, but after an angel of Yahweh killed 185,000 of his troops, he returned to Nineveh. In 1830, Colonel Taylor also went to Nineveh and there he discovered a six-sided clay prism that recorded Sennacherib's version of the story. Sennacherib claims that the siege left Hezekiah "like a bird in a cage," and that Hezekiah paid him a handsome tribute to end the standoff. This prism provided historians the rare opportunity to have both sides' versions of the story. In 1919 James Breasted purchased the prism from a Baghdad antiquities dealer, and it resided at the Oriental Institute in Chicago at the time this illustration was made. |
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Originally created for the BibleDudes website project
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