2 Kings 19:34
‘I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
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
- 1 Kings 11:12-13 Nevertheless, for the sake of your father David, I will not do it during your lifetime; I will tear it out of the hand of your son. …
- 2 Kings 20:6 I will add fifteen years to your life. And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city for My sake and for the sake of My…
- 1 Kings 15:4 Nevertheless, for the sake of David, the LORD his God gave him a lamp in Jerusalem by raising up a son to succeed him and to make Jerusalem strong.
- Isaiah 31:5 Like birds hovering overhead, so the LORD of Hosts will protect Jerusalem. He will shield it and deliver it; He will pass over it and preserve it.”
- Jeremiah 33:26 then I would also reject the descendants of Jacob and of My servant David, so as not to take from his descendants rulers over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. For I…
- Isaiah 38:6 And I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. I will defend this city.
- Jeremiah 23:5-6 Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and He will reign wisely as King and will administer justice and righteousness…
- Jeremiah 33:21 then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.
Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0
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