# 2 Kings 19:30

> And the surviving remnant of the house of Judah
will again take root below
and bear fruit above.

— 2 Kings 19:30, 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
- Isaiah 27:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/27/6
- 2 Chronicles 32:22-23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/32/22
- Isaiah 10:20-22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/10/20
- Isaiah 1:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/1/9
- Isaiah 37:31-32 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/37/31

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/30
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).