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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…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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700–681 BCE
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Assur, Assyria (Qal'at Sherqat, Iraq)
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Iron Age II, 9th Century BCE
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Ottoman Empire (Iraq)
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1742
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Caption Translated by Mordechai Cogan.
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Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)
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ca. 826 BCE
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I besieged and captured Samaria. I took as spoil 27,290 people who live there; I organized (a contingent of) fifty of their chariots and I instructed the rest of them in correct conduct. I appointed…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
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722–705 BCE
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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…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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598–597 BCE
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
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Late 8th Century BCE
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
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Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE
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The six men from Lachish in this section of Sennacherib's palace relief are dressed quite differently from the men shown in other sections. They are clad in the simplest of short-sleeved, unbelted…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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ca. 701 BCE
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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ca. 1850