Sennacherib
King of Assyria · Historical Figures · Lived 745 BC to 681 BC · aged 64
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Something wrong?King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 705 to 681 BC, he destroyed Babylon after it cost him his eldest son, besieged Jerusalem in a campaign the Hebrew Bible memorializes, and was stabbed to death by two of his own sons in a succession dispute.
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Ancient Assyria- Basalt Water Basin from Temple of Ashur, Reign of King Sennacherib, 704-681 BC (1)In their own words 3
, (Hezekiah) himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold
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Sennacherib inherited the throne in 705 BC as the second king of the Sargonid dynasty and immediately faced rebellion: the Chaldean chief Marduk-apla-iddina II retook Babylon and allied with Elam. He reclaimed the south by 700 BC, but the troubles spread - probably at Marduk-apla-iddina's instigation - to the Levant, where in 701 BC he invaded Judah and besieged Jerusalem under King Hezekiah, who eventually submitted though the siege itself remained inconclusive. When Babylonians and Elamites captured and executed his eldest son and designated heir Aššur-nādin-šumi, whom he'd installed as vassal king in Babylon, Sennacherib razed the city in 689 BC. He transferred the capital to Nineveh and transformed it with massive walls, temples, a royal garden, and the Southwest Palace - his "Palace without Rival." He named his second son Arda-Mulissu as new heir, then replaced him with the younger Esarhaddon in 684 BC for reasons unrecorded. In 681 BC, Arda-Mulissu and his brother Nabu-shar-usur murdered him; Esarhaddon raised an army, took Nineveh, and claimed the throne as Sennacherib had intended.
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