1 ene 701 año aC - Assyrian seige of Lachish & Jerusalem (King Hezekiah)

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Sennacherib lays siege to Lachish and Jerusalem as part of his campaign in the Levant.

The siege is of Lachish and Jerusalem outlined in 2 Chronicles 32 & Isaiah 36-37

The siege of Lachish is outlined on the walls of Sennacherib's palace in Nineveh (Lachish reliefs now in British Museum - pictured).

An artefact known as 'Sennacherib's Prism' outlines the siege of Jerusalem as follows: "As for the king of Judah, Hezekiah, who had not submitted to my authority, I besieged and captured forty-six of his fortified cities, along with many smaller towns, taken in battle with my battering rams. ... I took as plunder 200,150 people, both small and great, male and female, along with a great number of animals including horses, mules, donkeys, camels, oxen, and sheep. As for Hezekiah, I shut him up like a caged bird in his royal city of Jerusalem. I then constructed a series of fortresses around him, and I did not allow anyone to come out of the city gates."

2 Chronicles 32:17 & Isaiah 37 mention Sennacherib riduculing God. Sennacherib's inscriptions don't prove this specifically, but he does riducule Hezekiah - " I shut him up like a caged bird in his royal city of Jerusalem"

Ultimately, Sennacherib's records don't mention him actually capturing Jerusalem. This aligns with 2 Chronicles 32:22 & Isaiah 37:9-13