Archaeology · 7 · Hezekiah and Isaiah
The battle the Bible skips
In 701 BCE, Assyria besieged the Judean city of Lachish. Kings dwells at length on Jerusalem's deliverance but never mentions Lachish's fall.
Victory stories often hide the losses.
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Sennacherib had the siege carved on his palace walls at Nineveh, the earliest images of Judeans: families deported in carts. Excavators found countless arrowheads and a mass grave of about 1,500 people. Sennacherib boasted he trapped Hezekiah in Jerusalem 'like a bird in a cage.'
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 105–108
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