This event is recorded in the Old Testament in 2 Kings, chapters 18 and 19. Footnotes1http://www-oi.uchicago.edu/OI/MUS/HIGH/OIM_A2793.html2 http://www.stolaf.edu/people/kchanson/sennprism1.html, 4825 Almena Rd., Ft. Worth, Texaas 76114 stancox@watchmanmag.com, Truth Magazine Vol. The Prism is dated to approximately 689 B.C. Note the following parallels: (The translation of the prism is supplied by Daniel David Luckenbill, The Annals of Sennacherib. Taking His hand, helping each other home. As part of the third campaign, he besieged Jerusalem and imposed heavy tribute on Hezekiah, King of Judah — a story also related in the Bible, where Sennacherib is said to have been defeated by “the angel of the Lord” who slew 185,000 Assyrian soldiers (2 Kings 18-19).1, A picture of the prism and pertinent facts concerning its discovery and procurement by the University of Chicago, as well as full transcripts of the six columns can be found at the Oriental Institute’s site on the Internet.2. For more information on how we use cookies and how to manage cookies, please follow the 'Read more' link, otherwise select 'Accept and close'. Layard A H 1853a / Discoveries in the ruins of Nineveh and Babylon, with travels in Armenia, Kurdistan and the desert, Bezold 1896a / Catalogue of the cuneiform tablets in the Kouyunjik Collection of the British Museum, Guide 1922 / Guide to the Babylonian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, Pallis S A 1956a / The Antiquity of Iraq: A Handbook of Assyriology, Barnett 1977a / Illustrations of Old Testament History, Wiseman 1958 / Illustrations from Biblical archaeology, Pritchard 1950a / Ancient Near Eastern Texts relating to the Old Testament, Luckenbill 1927b / Ancient Records of Assyria and Babylonia, Budge 1920a / By Nile and Tigris. They are found inscribed on a number of artifacts, and the final versions were found in three clay prisms inscribed with the same text: the Taylor Prism is in the British Museum, the Oriental Institute Prism in the Oriental Institute of Chicago, and the Jerusalem Prism is in the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. 3:16a). Sennacherib admits in the prism-account that Hezekiah did not submit to his yoke, but was “shut up in Jerusalem” like a caged bird.The Jerusalem Prism, now displayed in the Israel Museum, is perhaps the least well-known of the three documents. To pay tribute and to accept servitude, he dispatched his messengers (Prism). They show the Bible to be accurate historically, and reinforce its internal claims of inspiration. This siege took place during the reign of King Hezekiah, who reigned in Judah from approximately 728 to 699 B.C. The Lord was with him; he prospered wherever he went. In the middle of the ninth century B.C.E., a new conquest state, the Assyrian Empire, emerged in the northern Mesopotamia. TRANSLATION Adapted from Luckenbill (1924:31-36) COLUMN 3: 1 they offered battle. The Taylor Prism is one of the earliest cuneiform artifacts analysed in modern Assyriology, having been found a few years 59-66. What is understandably absent from Sennacherib’s account of the campaign is that in the continued siege of the city the hand of the Lord intervened. 2 The people of the land of the Kassites and the land of the Yasubigallai, 3 who had fled before my arms, 4 I brought down out of the mountains and 5 settled them in Hardishpi and Bît-Kubatti.