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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

Posted on 06/16/2024 9:28:38 PM PDT by 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.


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To: Karliner

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


21 posted on 06/17/2024 5:15:39 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: SeekAndFind
Atheists and agnostics are vexed. Liberals are saddened but I repeat myself.
22 posted on 06/17/2024 5:33:41 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I was drowning in self pity until I bathed in the refreshing Lake of Respect.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bttt


23 posted on 06/17/2024 6:05:28 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: BenLurkin

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/


24 posted on 06/17/2024 6:48:25 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Adder

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


25 posted on 06/17/2024 7:16:57 AM PDT by blitz128
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To: BenLurkin

Thanks for posting this.


26 posted on 06/17/2024 7:45:43 AM PDT by Jane Long (The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks, and Thanks be to God.


27 posted on 06/17/2024 8:27:01 AM PDT by daniel1212 (Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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To: Karliner; BenLurkin

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 ).


28 posted on 06/17/2024 8:36:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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


29 posted on 06/17/2024 8:43:27 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

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


30 posted on 06/17/2024 8:55:55 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: SeekAndFind

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,


31 posted on 06/17/2024 9:02:23 AM PDT by cookcounty (Uuuuuuhh.)
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To: Phinneous

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.


32 posted on 06/17/2024 9:30:44 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: SeekAndFind
"...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.

33 posted on 06/17/2024 11:00:38 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Verginius Rufus

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


34 posted on 06/17/2024 1:28:05 PM PDT by Phinneous (By the way, there are Seven Laws for you too! Noahide.org)
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