An archaeologist has apparently found Sennacherib’s 2,700-year-old camp outside of Jerusalem: Once again, the Bible proves to be an accurate record of the ancient world

American Thinker ^ | 06/16/2024 | Andrea Widburg

[SeekAndFind]

One of the big lies in today’s world is that the Jews are white supremacist colonizers, while the people in Gaza and the West Bank are the region’s indigenous inhabitants. In fact, the contrary is true. Jews long predated Muslims in the region, as described in the Bible. Now, there’s more evidence that Isaiah, 2 Kings, and 2 Chronicles all accurately describe the Assyrian siege of Jerusalem 2,700 years ago.

During the reign of Hezekiah of Judah in Jerusalem and Sennacherib in Assyria, the mighty Assyrian kingdom attacked Jerusalem (around 701 BC). We know it happened because of a clay prism from Nineveh, Assyria’s one-time capital, describing a great victory there. However, we also know of it because of the Bible, which describes a huge Assyrian loss rather than a victory.

Here are the key points (for purposes of this post) from 2 Chronicles chapter 32. The story picks up after the prophet Isaiah told Hezekiah that he must have the kingdom clean up its act and live again by God’s word:

Image: The Exterminating Angel Vanquishing the Army of Sennacherib by Antonio Tempesta, 1613. National Gallery of Art.

Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.

When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to make war against Jerusalem, 3he consulted with his leaders and commanders about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out.

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Then Hezekiah worked resolutely to rebuild all the broken sections of the wall and to raise up towers on it. He also built an outer wall and reinforced the supporting terraces of the City of David, and he produced an abundance of weapons and shields.

[Red Badger]

He was assassinated by his own two sons.........

[BipolarBob]

Atheists and agnostics are vexed. Liberals are saddened but I repeat myself.

[ChildOfThe60s]

Bttt

[george76]

Charles Krauthammer..

Israel .. is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago.

You dig the soil and you find pottery from Davidic times, coins from Bar Kokhba, and 2,000-year-old scrolls written in a script remarkably like the one that today advertises ice cream at the corner candy store.

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/359502/five-years-later-remembering-charles-krauthammer/

[blitz128]

Understood, and like I said who did they take it from. There claim to once have controlled it is not more valid then Mexico wanting Texas or the Lakota wanting black hills
My point on saying Muslims is that is what the article said lol

[Jane Long]

Thanks for posting this.

[daniel1212]

Thanks, and Thanks be to God.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Sennacherib kinda failed but he didn’t dump $84 billion in money and weapons to the Pashtun tribes.

He couldn’t. The Bible says he was assassinated soon after his army returned from the siege of Jerusalem due to an Angel slaying tens of thousands of his soldiers in one night ( secular historians called it a mysterious plague ).

[Karliner]

At least he led sort of from the front. 185,000 dead from an angel or disease?

At least the Assyrian’s put him to death after the fail. This day and age our nation gives them a dress and a medal

[Karliner]

It’s an incredible story. Hezekiah trusted God on this when there was no hope to win.

[cookcounty]

There are very few truly “ indigenous” populations in the world, history is constant conquering and re-conquering, but the closest thing to an indigenous population in the eastern Mediterranean is the Hebrew people. There are 26 layers of “civilizations” in Megiddo,

[Verginius Rufus]

There is a longer version in II Kings (chapters 18 & 19) than in II Chronicles. It’s the II Kings account which gives the figure of 185,000 dead.

[Paal Gulli]

"...Once again, the Bible proves to be an accurate record of the ancient world...."

They're taking credit for something that was entirely a creation of the Israelites, the Tanakh.

[Phinneous]

Yes but you have to give me sarcastic comedic license when ribbing the archaeologists. ;)