# 2 Kings 19:16

> Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

— 2 Kings 19:16, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- 701 BC (dated by the text itself)
- Date source: 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.

## Who ruled

- **Sennacherib**, king of Assyria, 705-681 BC · Source: 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**, king of Judah, 715-686 BC · Source: 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

- 2 Kings 19:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/4
- 2 Chronicles 6:40 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/6/40
- Psalms 31:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/31/2
- Isaiah 37:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/37/17
- 1 Kings 8:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-kings/8/29
- Daniel 9:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/9/18

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/16
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).