2 Kings 19:15

And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth.

Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain

WHEN: 701 BC

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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

2 Kings 19:15

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