# 2 Kings 19:29

> And this will be a sign to you, O Hezekiah:
This year you will eat
what grows on its own,
and in the second year
what springs from the same.
But in the third year you will sow and reap;
you will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

— 2 Kings 19:29, 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

- Leviticus 25:20-22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/leviticus/25/20
- Exodus 3:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/3/12
- 2 Kings 20:8-9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/20/8
- Isaiah 37:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/37/30
- Luke 2:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/luke/2/12
- Leviticus 25:4-5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/leviticus/25/4
- 1 Samuel 2:34 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-samuel/2/34
- Isaiah 7:11-14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/7/11

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/29
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).