2 Kings 18:11
The king of Assyria exiled the Israelites to Assyria and settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in the cities of the Medes.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHERE
- Assyria, Halah, Habor and 1 more
- WHEN
- 701 BC
ON THE MAP
WHEN
701 BC
dated by the text itself
Two independent sources, one biblical and one Assyrian, telling of the same siege and disagreeing only about how it ended.
WHO RULED
- Sennacherib king of Assyria 705-681 BC
- Hezekiah king of Judah 715-686 BC
SOURCES
- date — 2 Kings 18:13 dates itself by the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; the Sennacherib Prism dates the same campaign to 701 BC and names Hezekiah.
- Sennacherib — Taylor Prism (British Museum), in which he tells of besieging Jerusalem and names "Hezekiah, the Jew," but does not say he took the city
- Hezekiah — 2 Kings 18-20; the Sennacherib Prism, which names him; the Siloam tunnel and the inscription found in it, which record the work of 2 Kings 20:20
SEE ALSO
- 1 Chronicles 5:26 So the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria (that is, Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria) to take the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh…
- 2 Kings 17:6 In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and carried away the Israelites to Assyria, where he settled them in Halah, in Gozan by the Habor River, and in…
- Isaiah 37:12 Did the gods of the nations destroyed by my fathers rescue those nations—the gods of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and of the people of Eden in Telassar?
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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