{"id":264,"date":"2004-07-01T18:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T18:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/07\/01\/siege-of-lachish-701-bc\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T20:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T20:01:39","slug":"siege-of-lachish-701-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2004\/07\/01\/siege-of-lachish-701-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Siege of Lachish (701 BC)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The British Museum<\/a> has a series of wall panels<\/a> describing the siege of Lachish<\/a> by Sennacherib. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is described in the Old Testament in 2 Chr 32:9<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2Ch 32:9-10 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that were at Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust, that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The period of the Old Testament Kings is well attested from archaeology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is documented in a book titled, The Bible in the British Museum: Interpreting the evidence<\/a>, by T. C. Mitchell. Mitchell was a curator of Middle Eastern antiquities for the British Museum.
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The British Museum has a series of wall panels describing the siege of Lachish by Sennacherib. This is described in the Old Testament in 2 Chr 32:9. 2Ch 32:9-10 After this did Sennacherib king of Assyria send his servants to Jerusalem, (but he himself laid siege against Lachish, and all his power with him,) unto […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaelogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":673,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}