2 Kings 19:14
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain
- WHEN
- 701 BC
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
- Isaiah 37:14 So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD.
- Psalms 91:1-2 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. …
- Psalms 123:1-4 I lift up my eyes to You, the One enthroned in heaven. …
- 1 Kings 8:28-30 Yet regard the prayer and plea of Your servant, O LORD my God, so that You may hear the cry and the prayer that Your servant is praying before You today. …
- Ezra 9:5 At the evening offering, I got up from my humiliation with my tunic and cloak torn, and I fell on my knees, spread out my hands to the LORD my God,
- Psalms 74:10-11 How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever? …
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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