Then Hezekiah took counsel with his princes and mighty men, and repaired the broken walls, and made them higher. There is no description of destroying Jerusalem, and no account of captives being taken into slavery. Ahava Jerusalem 326,414 views JPS Tanakh 1917 Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah, and took them. In Hezekiah's fourteenth year as king, King Sennacherib of Assyria attacked all the fortified cities of Judah and captured them. But Sennacherib was not satisfied, and gathered his entire army for an invasion of Judah. Lesson 10 Monday. The account is recorded in Scripture. His son, Sennacherib, then attacked Judah. The righteousness of king Hezekiah and Isaiah the prophet were instrumental in Sennacherib's downfall. In his historical annals, discovered in the capital city of Nineveh, he boasts, “Forty-six of his [Hezekiah’s] strong walled towns and innumerable smaller villages in their neighborhood I besieged and conquered.” Mother Stories from the Old Testament— Anonymous Sennacherib, the King of Assyria, invaded the land of Judah, and threatened to lay siege to Jerusalem. • Isaiah's elegy against Sennacherib (19:20-28). It is true that Jerusalem was besieged, but the Bible records that the siege lasted for one day only, as the Angel of the Lord delivers Jerusalem. God's answer to Hezekiah's prayer states that Sennacherib is not in charge here, God is; and all of Assyria's former successes were due to God's direction of history (vv. All the kings and princes in the neighboring lands feared him, and even Hezekiah paid tribute to him, so that all his treasury became empty. 25-26). Not far from Judah, just across the Jordan River, reigned a mighty king, Sennacherib king of Assyria. (Warning about China) The Dreadful Day No One Wants to Talk About by David Wilkerson | Full Sermon - Duration: 45:55. Hezekiah and Sennacherib. 37:1 When Hezekiah heard from his ministers the boastful and blasphemous words of Sennacherib through his spokesman Rabshaken, he did the right thing, he humbled himself before God. His campaign in 701 BC failed due to God's intervention. It also is recorded by Sennacherib himself in several ways. With the start of the reign of Sargon II, Assyria had conquered Samaria, the capital of Israel. New American Standard 1977 Sennacherib is able to boast only this: “As for Hezekiah the Judean, I shut him in his city like a bird in a cage”.