Did Sennacherib Campaign Once or Twice Against Hezekiah?

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D I D SENNACHERIB CAMPAIGN ONCE O R TWICE AGAINST HEZEKIAH 3 SIEGFRIED H. HORN Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan There is no lack of.li erature on the subject under discussion. Articl es, too numerous to mention ,l and several mo nogra phs ,2 have dealt with the problems o f Sennacherib's dealings with King Hezeki ah o f Jud ah, espec ially with th e question whether th e Assyrian king conducted one campaign or two campaigns against Palestine. There are two principal reasons why until recently it has been impossible t o give a clear-cut answer t o this question. The first reason i s that the Biblical records agree in some parts with Sennacherib's versi on o f t h e one and only Palesti- nian campaign recorded by him, b u t in other parts seem t o refer to events difficult t o connect with the campaign mentioned i n the Assyrian annals. The second reason i s that the Biblical records bring Se nn acherib's ca mp aign-r on e of his campaigns, if there were tw o- in connection wi th "Tirhakah king of Ethiopia" ( z K i 19 g ; Is 3 7 : 9 ) ; but t h e campaign of Sen nach erib , o f which numerous Assyrian annal editions have come to light, took place in 7 0 1 B.c., some 1 2 years before Tirhakah came to the throne. 1 A bibliography on articles in periodicals and treatments o f the subject in commentaries and histories of Israel or o f Assyria up to 1926 is found on pp. I 17-122 o f Honor 's diss ertation mentioned in n. 2 . For more recent discussions see H. H. Rowley, "Hezekiah's Reform and Rebellion," BJRL, XLIV (1962)~ specially the footnotes on PP. 404-406. a G . Nagel, Der Zzrg des Sunherib gegen JerusaZem nach den Quellen dargestellt (Leipzig, 1902) J . V. PrASek, Sanheribs FeZdzGge gegen Juda ("Mitteilungen de r vorderasiatischen Gesellschaft," vol. VIII; Berlin,

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