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The fourteenth year of Hezekiah was 701 B.C. [Note: See E. R. Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, pp. 118-54.] On an Assyrian record, Sennacherib claimed to have taken 46 cities of Judah during this campaign (cf. 2 Chronicles 32:1). The record is on the Prism of Sennacherib, also called the Taylor Prism, now in the British Museum. [Note: See J. B. Pritchard, ed., Ancient Near Eastern Texts, p. 288; or Young, 2:566-69, or Dyer, in The Old . . ., p. 557, who reproduced Sennacherib’s translated description of his campaign into Palestine.]
"He went from the north along the coast defeating (among others) the towns of Aphek, Timnah, Ekron, and Lachish. Lachish was then his staging area for attacking a number of other towns." [Note: J. Martin, p. 1086.]
"The army of Sennacherib is swarming over Judah like a horde of Tolkienian Orcs, and only Jerusalem remains (Isaiah 8:8)." [Note: Ortlund, p. 207.]
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