So he took the war letter from
Sennacherib into the temple and spread it open before the Lord.
Creating a Political Climate: Literary Allusions to Enuma Elis in
Sennacherib's Account of the Battle of Halule.
One of these occasions was in 701 BCE when
Sennacherib's army marched southwards along the Mediterranean, capturing the Phoenician cities of Byblos/Gebal and Sidon, and the Philistine cities of Ashdod and Ashkelon.
Last April, ISIL demolished the Gate of God which dates back to the 7th century BC, the time of the Assyrian king
Sennacherib.
In approximately 700 BC, King
Sennacherib made Nineveh the new capital of Assyria.
It was a powerful place under
Sennacherib and Ashurbanipal in the 17th century BC but was destroyed by Babylonia and its allies in 612 B.C.
The British Museum must now promote to the public its Assyrian lamassu, those vast winged gatekeeper figures, and, insofar as such a thing is possible, make seeing them and the friezes from the palaces of Ashurnasirpal II and
Sennacherib imperative to any visit.
The relics include items from the palace of King
Sennacherib, who in the Byron poem "came down like the wolf on the fold'' to destroy his enemies.
Some texts, of course, have opposite readings of history, such as
Sennacherib's attack on Jerusalem in 701 as reported in his royal annals and the quite opposite outcome of that battle in the Bible.
And when King
Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by reason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy, and being angry slew many of the children of Israel, Tobias buried their bodies" (Tob 1:19-21).