# 2 Kings 19:6

> who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.

— 2 Kings 19:6, 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 Kings 18:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/18/17
- 2 Kings 18:35 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/18/35
- Isaiah 37:6-38 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/isaiah/37/6
- 2 Chronicles 20:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-chronicles/20/15
- Exodus 14:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/exodus/14/13
- Leviticus 26:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/leviticus/26/8
- Deuteronomy 20:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/deuteronomy/20/1
- Deuteronomy 20:3-4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/deuteronomy/20/3

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

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19/6
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/19
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).