Judean Spearman Depicted on Relief of Sennacherib

As for Hezekiah, the Judean, I besieged 46 of his fortified walled cities and surrounding smaller towns, which were without number. Using packed-down ramps and applying battering rams, infantry…

This relief, from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, shows Sennacherib’s army attacking Lachish (an event alluded to in 2 Kings 18:14 and 17). Sennacherib is sitting on his throne outside the city…

I mobilized the kings of Hatti and “Beyond-the-River”: Baal, king of Tyre; Manasseh, king of Judah; Kaus-gabri, king of Edom; Mutsuri, king of Moab; Tsilli-Bel, king of Gaza; Mitinti, king of Ashkelon…

Year 7. The month Kislev. The king of Akkad mobilized his troops and marched to Hatti. He encamped against the city of Judah and in the month Adar, day 2, he captured the city; he seized the king. He…

½ (panu) to Jehoiachin, king of Ju[dah] 2 ½ qu to the five sons of the king of Judah 4 qu to 8 Judeans, ½ [qu each] 1 ½ qu to three carpenters from Arvad, ½ qu each ½ panu 1 ½ qu to eight carpenters…

Israelites in Assyrian Exile (last third of eighth century BCE): Ahiyau, an “archer,” Nineveh Hoshea, a slave, Nineveh (680 BCE) Neriyau, “chief of accounts,” Gozan Paqaha (Pekah), an estate manager…