2nd Kings 18:13
In the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib, king of Assyr-ians, went up to all the strengthened cities of Judah, and took them.This verse in the real world
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In what words
- סַנְחֵרִיבÇanchêrîybSancherib, an Assyrian king
- בָּצַרbâtsarto gather grapes; also to be isolated (i.e. inaccessible by height or fortification)
- תָּפַשׂtâphasto manipulate, i.e. seize; chiefly to capture, wield, specifically, to overlay; figurative
- חִזְקִיָּהChizqîyâhChizkijah, a king of Judah, also the name of two other Israelites
- אַשּׁוּרʼAshshûwrAshshur, the second son of Shem; also his descendants and the country occupied by them (i.
- אַרְבַּעʼarbaʻfour
- עָשָׂרʻâsârten (only in combination), i.e. -teen; also (ordinal) -teenth
- שָׁנֶהshâneha year (as a revolution of time)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
What's left of it
- The Assyrian Eponym Canon and the eclipse of 763 BCFixed dateKings of Israel and Judah appear in Assyrian records that are dated to the exact year by this list. Biblical chronology is not dated in isolation — it is pinned to the same astronomical anchor secular historians use for the whole ancient Near East.
- Sennacherib's Prism — Hezekiah shut up "like a bird in a cage"Named outside the BibleThe invasion of Judah in 701 BC, Hezekiah by name, the siege of Jerusalem and the tribute are all recorded by the invader himself — and the city's survival is implicit in his own silence about taking it.
- The lmlk storage jarsConfirmed by the groundA kingdom-wide store of stamped royal jars, concentrated in the year Sennacherib invaded.
Cross-references
Isa 36:1–22, Hos 12:1–2, Isa 8:7–8, 2Ch 32:1–23, Isa 7:17–25, Isa 10:5