# 2 Kings 19:35

> And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

— 2 Kings 19:35, Berean Standard Bible

## On the map

- **Assyria** — https://scriptoria.digital/en/atlas/assyria

## 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 Chronicles 32:21-22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/32/21
- 2 Samuel 24:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-samuel/24/16
- Exodus 12:29-30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/12/29
- Isaiah 37:36 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/37/36
- Psalms 76:5-7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/psalms/76/5
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2-3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-thessalonians/5/2
- Isaiah 10:33 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/10/33
- Daniel 5:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/daniel/5/30

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/35
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).