Episode 19: The One Who Struggles with God (The Historical Books and Biblical Archaeology)
Literature and History
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The Six-Sided Rock of Sinakarib's Prism
The six-sided stone column that archaeologists call Sinakarib's prism shows no recollection of losing 185,000 soldiers to an angel of the Israelite God. The Assyrian king recollects laying siege to 46 southern cities and conquering all of them,. taking 200,000 prisoners and imprisoning Hezekiah. It sounds like Hezekiah lost the Assyrians, and he lost badly.
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